“Hot Labor Summer” – so dubbed due to strikes by the Writers Guild, Screen Actors Guild, Southern California Hotel Workers, health care workers from multiple unions, and United Auto Workers – is not over. On Oct. 7, 2023, Gov. Newsom signed AB 1 (known as the Legislature Employer-Employee Relations Act), which gives California legislative staff
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling in Viking River Cruises v. Moriana gave California employers a brief reprieve from the onslaught of nonarbitrable Private Attorneys General Act claims.
Before then, PAGA’s structure was unique — allowing an aggrieved employee to bring a nonarbitrable suit on behalf of the state to recover penalties for Labor Code
On Feb. 21, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that severance agreements with broad – yet common – confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions are unlawful. Employers routinely include confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions in separation or severance agreements that generally prohibit a departing employee from disclosing the terms of the agreement or disparaging the company in
Heralded as a victory by unions and employee worker’s rights groups even before votes were confirmed, on Nov. 15, 2022, a majority of Illinois voters ushered in the Illinois Workers’ Right Amendment (IWRA). The IWRA is set to take effect once the Illinois State Board of Elections certifies the election results on Dec. 5, 2022.
With substantial union backing, California’s controversial Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act, A.B. 257 or the FAST Act, moved through California’s Legislature with relative ease.
As the president of the Service Employees International Union, Mary Kay Henry, told Bloomberg News, the bill effectively offers “another form of collective bargaining” for fast food workers.
On Sept. 5, 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law AB 257, the controversial Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act, also known as the “FAST Act” (the Act). Its passing was swiftly met with a voter referendum filed Sept. 7, 2022, to potentially block the new law. If the proponents of the referendum
Join us for Part II of our Traditional Labor webinar series, which will discuss potential changes to employee and employer rights under the National Labor Relations Act under the Biden administration. Part II of this series will include a lively discussion about hot topics in the labor world in an engaging moderated Q&A format.
Recently, the National Labor Relations Board made sweeping changes to its “joint employer” standard, announcing a new test that will surely lead to more findings of joint employment relationships under the National Labor Relations Act. Under the new standard announced in Browning-Ferris Industries, a company is a joint-employer if it exercises “indirect control” over
The New York City Displaced Building Service Worker Protection Act requires that any buyer, transferee or successor employer of most New York City commercial and residential properties offer the incumbent employees jobs after the change in ownership or employer for as many jobs as the new employer will have at the property, and to keep those employees in employ for at least 90 days unless it has cause for discharge during that “probationary” period. However, a U.S. District Court judge in the Southern District of New York recently denied a request for injunctive relief sought by the National Labor Relations Board seeking to compel a buyer to recognize the incumbent union.
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