Take Action on Wage Theft: Your May 31 Starting Point

Today is the last day of May. If you’ve been following this series and believe you’ve experienced wage theft, here is your action plan.

Five Steps to Start Today

1. Pull all pay stubs you have for the past three years. 2. Reconstruct your hours as best you can — using phone records, emails, or your own recollection. 3. Calculate the difference between what you were paid and what you should have been paid. 4. Send a PAGA notice to the LWDA if you believe multiple employees were affected. 5. Request a free evaluation — describe your situation and we’ll identify the highest-priority claims.

Every day of delay is money. The three-year window runs backward from your filing date — not from your last day of work. A worker who was paid illegally for four years can recover three years’ worth on the day they file. But every month you wait shifts that window by a month and permanently eliminates that month’s violations from your recoverable claims. File now. The California Wage Theft Recovery System is here to help you do it right. Start here.

The California Wage Theft Recovery System gives workers the exact tools and templates to document violations, calculate what they’re owed, and file the right claims — without paying an attorney to get started. Request your free evaluation here.