59 Minute WAGE STATEMENT Workshop

Fifty-Nine Minutes to Insure Against A Loss of Thousands

Government penalties are damaging but the costs and attorney fees will be crippling.

Issue:            An employee is “deemed” to suffer injury if the employer either fails to provide a wage statement or provides inaccurate or incomplete information.  § 226(e)(2)(A), (B).

Action Item:   During this workshop, Mr. Rarick will review the statutory requirements for wage statements.  He will also discuss the methods plaintiffs' attorneys use to obtain sizeable monetary awards and costly injunctions in the context of employment disputes, including the Private Attorney Generals' Act (PAGA). 

Benefit:         Drastically reduce or eliminate the risk of penalties, fees and costs associated with inaccurate or incomplete wage statement information.

Penaltyrisk:   An Employee is entitled to recover the greater of all actual damages or fifty dollars ($50) for the initial pay period and one hundred dollars ($100) per employee for each violation in a subsequent pay period, not to exceed an aggregate penalty of four thousand dollars ($4,000), and is entitled to an award of costs and reasonable attorney’s fees. § 226(e)(1).

Bio for John C. Rarick, Esq.
 John C. Rarick, Esq. is an attorney with a focus in business, employment and IP (Trademark, Trade Secrets & Copyright) law.  He practices in Mendocino and Lake Counties with litigation experience in both state and federal courts. 
 
Mr. Rarick obtained his Juris Doctorate after successful careers in Real Estate, Investment Banking, Internet Application Development, and Entrepreneurship/Small Business Development.  He passed the California State Bar in August of 2012. 
 
Mr. Rarick counsels small and medium-sized companies in the development of code-compliant notices, pamphlets, policies, procedures and employment practices and has associated with other attorneys in large employment class-action lawsuits against Fortune 500 companies and public entities.  He has helped small businesses organize legal entities, procure trademarks, implement trade-secret-protection plans and comply with the extensive California Labor Code.  He drafts intellectual property transfer agreements and other business documents, including leases, buy-sell agreements, by-laws, and operating agreements.  He has excellent business, legal and marketing research and drafting and analytical skills.
 
Mr. Rarick grew-up working on avocado farms in North San Diego County, obtained his B.S. in Human Physiology at U.C. Davis, his Masters in Business Administration from Georgetown University and his J.D. from Whittier College of Law.  As the Executive Manager of Peak Harvest Foods, LLC, he developed Know Your Farmer marketing campaigns and taught himself trademark law in the successful defense of the trademark Quality You Can Crunch. 
 
Mr. Rarick presently lives in Nice, California with his wife and enjoys farming, beekeeping, mushroom collecting, sailing and is proficient in Italian.
 
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