California PAGA Compliance
We help California employers with hourly workforces find and fix PAGA compliance gaps before they become claims.
The Problem
California's Private Attorneys General Act lets any employee sue on behalf of the Labor Commissioner — recovering penalties for every current and former worker, every pay period, every violation. Most compliance consultants review your documents and tell you what's wrong. We do something different.
Most PAGA violations don't start in the HR office. They start on the floor — a supervisor making a judgment call nobody trained her for, a break that went untracked during a rush, an overtime error on a rotating schedule. Hourly workforces carry the most exposure: high turnover, variable schedules, split shifts, and front-line managers who were never trained on California's rules. That's where we focus.
How We Work
For employers that have not received a PAGA notice. An annual subscription that keeps your operation ahead of exposure — with quarterly audits, corrected practices, and policy updates whenever California wage-and-hour law changes.
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Cap Ready is $7,000 per year. Through November 7, founding clients pay $3,000 for the first year — then the standard rate. Start with the free risk check, or contact us to get started today.
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California PAGA Compliance · Los Angeles
Most PAGA violations don't start in the HR office. They start on the floor — a manager making a call nobody trained her for. A missed break during a rush. An overtime error on a rotating schedule. A wage statement that doesn't reflect the shift structure. A final pay that went out three days late.
We built Somerset Compliance Partners for the employers whose exposure lives in those moments — not in the policy manual, but in what happens on a job site with rotating crews, in a restaurant across three locations, or in a cleaning operation when a supervisor calls out overnight.
California's wage-and-hour environment is the most demanding in the country, and hourly workforces carry the most exposure. We understand your scheduling complexity, your job code structure, and the real reasons compliance breaks down in the field — because we've operated inside these environments.
“Most operators aren't negligent — they're busy. Nobody trained their supervisors on California's wage and hour rules, and nobody built a system to catch violations — missed breaks, overtime errors, late final pay, bad wage statements — before they become claims. That's the gap we close.”
Our work is practical, operational, and structured to deliver real results: quarterly audits, corrected practices, updated policies, and the documentation your operation needs to stay protected.
Why Work With Us
We don't translate California labor law into policies — we translate it into what your shift supervisor does at 6pm on a Saturday, what a foreman does on a job site when a crew member disputes their hours, and what a cleaning operation manager does when the schedule changes at midnight. That's a different kind of compliance work.
Cap Ready starts with a full payroll audit in your first quarter — so you know exactly where you stand before the next one begins. Every engagement has clear deliverables and a timeline, not open-ended retainers that drift.
From the first audit to every quarterly check-in, the same team that identified your gaps is the team that fixes them — rewriting your policies, keeping your operation compliant as it evolves. No handoffs. No explaining your operation twice.
Every engagement is structured with clear deliverables and pricing stated before we begin. No hourly billing, no scope creep, no invoice you weren't expecting. You know exactly what you're getting and what it costs before you commit.
Get Started
Ten questions about your operation. You get your risk level, your top compliance gaps, and a clear next step — at no cost.
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