Employment

  • Calif. High Court OKs Meal Break Waiver For Health Workers

    Golden State health care workers don’t have to take a second meal break during shifts lasting longer than 12 hours, meaning they can opt to leave work a half hour sooner, the California Supreme Court said Monday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • Quad/Graphics Must Pay Pension Fund, 9th Circ. Says

    Wisconsin-based marketing and printing firm Quad/Graphics Inc. will have to pay a multi-employer pension plan several million dollars after a Ninth Circuit appeals panel on Friday upheld a lower court’s ruling that the fund had correctly calculated how much the company owed after it pulled out of the plan… Read this piece in its entirety…

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  • Calif. Bill Floated To Undo Dynamex Worker Classification Test

    California Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez has announced proposed legislation that would loosen the criteria employers use to classify workers as independent contractors, undoing the state Supreme Court’s landmark Dynamex decision from earlier this year… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • UChicago Must Bargain With Student Library Workers: NLRB

    The University of Chicago must recognize the collective-bargaining rights of students employed at the school’s libraries, despite the university’s contention that federal labor law doesn’t give the students the right to unionize, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.  

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Mike LaSusa