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New NLRB Salting Guidance: What California Employers Need to Know

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July 25, 2025 – Memorandum GC 25-08 - The NLRB’s Acting General Counsel (GC), William Cowen, has issued new marching orders for how the agency will investigate “salting” cases – when union organizers apply for jobs with...more

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A New Challenge to Mandatory Labor Peace Agreements Is Filed While Another Is Dismissed

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On April 14, 2025, a cannabis retailer filed suit to challenge the provision of New York’s cannabis law that requires licensed businesses to maintain labor peace agreements with their workers. The New York lawsuit asserts...more

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ALJ Backs Hospital’s Right to Delay Returning Strikers to Work

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An NLRB administrative law judge recently confirmed that a California hospital system had the right to keep replacement workers on the job for the duration of its contractual commitment to a staffing agency even though...more

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Is the Unionization of Uber and Lyft Drivers On California’s Horizon?

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On April 10, 2025, California legislators introduced Assembly Bill 1340, also known as the Transportation Network Company Drivers Labor Relations Act, which would afford drivers of app-based transportation companies such as...more

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Captive Audience Meetings Now Banned By State Law in California 

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Last Friday, Governor Newsom signed SB 399 – The California Worker Freedom from Employer Intimidation Act into law.   SB 399, which will take effect on January 1, 2025, prohibits private and public employers in...more

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Purple Haze: LPA Mandate Poised to Continue Causing Confusion and Chaos for California Cannabis Licensees

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It is not often that the government has the opportunity to regulate and oversee an entirely brand new market; and, in the case of California, when it legalized recreational cannabis for adult-use, it decided to mandate...more

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California Exempts Certain Airline Cabin Crew from California Meal and Rest Period Mandates

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On March 23, 2023, Governor Newsom signed Senate Bill (SB) 41 providing relief for employers with airline cabin crew employees covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement (CBA) under the Federal Railway Labor Act and...more

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California Ag Officials Publish Guidance On Card Check Legislation: 6 Things Employers Need to Know

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The Agricultural Labor Relations Board recently published an overview on AB 2183, the monumental “card check” legislation passed last year that makes it far easier for California agricultural workers to organize into unions....more

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Spring Showers Bring Job Killer Bills to California

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The California Chamber of Commerce has just identified a host of recently introduced “Job Killer” Bills pending before the California Legislature.  This year’s list includes bills that would, among other things, inflate...more

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