Townley v. BJ's Rests., Inc.

*180Plaintiff Krista Townley (Townley) appeals from the judgment entered after the trial court granted summary judgment in favor of defendant BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (BJ's) on her sole cause of action under the Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 ( Lab. Code, § 2698 et seq. ; PAGA),1 which sought civil penalties on behalf of herself and other "aggrieved employees" for Labor Code violations.2 In this appeal, we are asked *181to determine whether section 2802 requires an employer to reimburse its employees for the cost of slip-resistant shoes as "necessary expenditures ... incurred by the…