While employees are decorating, mulling over their New Year’s resolutions, and hunting for the best sales, California employers are turning their sights to the potential challenges awaiting them in the
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California Attempts to Restrict Mandatory Captive Audience Meetings
Gov. Newsom has signed SB 399 into law, which restricts the ability of employers to hold mandatory “captive audience meetings” with their employees. The new legislation, also known as “California…
Continue Reading California Attempts to Restrict Mandatory Captive Audience MeetingsCalifornia Governor Signs Bill Allowing Staff to Unionize…in 2026
“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…
Continue Reading California Governor Signs Bill Allowing Staff to Unionize…in 2026Sept. 28 WEBINAR | Historic NLRB Ruling Gives Workers Path to Unionize Without Having to Vote
Please join GT Labor & Employment Practice Shareholders Jonathan Sulds and Justin Keith Thursday, Sept. 28 at 12 p.m. ET in for a webinar following the National Labor Relations Board’s…
Continue Reading Sept. 28 WEBINAR | Historic NLRB Ruling Gives Workers Path to Unionize Without Having to VoteHow Unions Could Stem Possible Wave Of Calif. PAGA Claims
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…
Continue Reading How Unions Could Stem Possible Wave Of Calif. PAGA ClaimsNLRB Rules Broad – Yet Common – Confidentiality and Non-Disparagement Provisions in Severance Agreements Are Unlawful
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…
Continue Reading NLRB Rules Broad – Yet Common – Confidentiality and Non-Disparagement Provisions in Severance Agreements Are Unlawful’Tis the Season for California’s 2023 Legislative Update: Employer Considerations
California employers know the holidays bring chilly nights (by California standards), holiday cheer, decked halls, and… ringing in the New Year with a host of new employment laws and compliance…
Continue Reading ’Tis the Season for California’s 2023 Legislative Update: Employer ConsiderationsIllinois Workers’ Rights Amendment Provides Employees Fundamental Right to Organize
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’…
Continue Reading Illinois Workers’ Rights Amendment Provides Employees Fundamental Right to OrganizeHow the NLRA May Slow Down the FAST Act
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…
Continue Reading How the NLRA May Slow Down the FAST ActNLRB Proposes New Joint-Employer Standard
On Sept. 6, 2022, the National Labor Relations Board released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking addressing the standard for determining joint-employer status under the National Labor Relations Act. The Board…
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