Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Act established rules and authorized regulations similar to those of National Labor Relations Act, a federal law which formally protected the collective bargaining rights of most American workers except farm and domestic workers. [7] The California Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB) administers the Act.
Protected concerted activity extends to individual employees in some situations. Typically, an individual employee can be acting in concert when that employee is acting on behalf of or as a representative of at least one other co-worker. Their actions must address general workplace conditions or bring attention to a group complaint. [15]
The California Chamber of Commerce and the California Restaurant Assn. contend in a recently filed lawsuit that it violates companies’ rights to free speech and equal protection under the 1st ...
California Refinery and Chemical Plant Worker Safety Act of 1990 added section 7872 and 7873 to the Labor Code. On September 25, 1992, AB 2601 was signed into law. [20] It protected gays and lesbians against employment discrimination. [21] California was the seventh state to add sexual orientation to laws barring job discrimination. [22]
The dispute centers around UFW’s work to help farmworkers receive one-time $600 relief payments through the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm and Food Worker Relief Grant Program.
An initiative aimed at repealing a landmark California law that gave workers the right to sue their employers for themselves and other workers will stay off the November ballot following an ...
The Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union (CAWIU) was a Communist-aligned union active in California in the early 1930s. Organizers provided support to workers in California's fields and canning industry.
The act also enumerated new employer rights, defined union-committed ULPs, gave states the right to opt out of federal labor law through right-to-work laws, required unions to give an 80-days' strike notice in all cases, established procedures for the president to end a strike in a national emergency, and required all union officials to sign an ...