by Jim Paretti, Bruce Sarchet, & Michael Lotito
Jan 7, 2020
On January 2, 2020, the Attorney General for the State of California released the title and summary of Initiative 19-0026—a proposed ballot measure that would overturn the state’s recently enacted independent contractor law, AB 5, with respect to app-based...
by Betsy Johnson & Jerald L. Monson III
Jan 3, 2020
As 2019 winds down, employers operating in California will not want to forget that January 1, 2020, rings in several new California laws affecting the workplace. Here’s a New Year’s Eve countdown of 10 important new California employment laws taking effect in 2020 and...
by Ethan Picone & Mark G. Kisicki
Dec 24, 2019
Continuing its string of decisions reversing positions taken by the Obama Board, the National Labor Relations Board decided Apogee Retail LLC, No. 27-CA-191574 on December 16, 2019. Apogee Retail applied the approach articulated two years ago in Boeing for evaluating...
by Jason R. Stanevich & Marie Duarte
Dec 18, 2019
On December 13, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) issued a new Final Rule amending its procedures for union elections and scaling back the Obama–era “quickie election” rules. To be clear, the Final Rule does not completely rescind the 2014 amendments...
