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On March 9, 2021, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved the COVID-Related Hazard Pay Ordinance, which became effective March 22, 2021....more
On March 16, 2021, the City Council of Costa Mesa, California, passed an urgency ordinance establishing premium pay for retail grocery and pharmacy workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Costa Mesa is a large city in Orange...more
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved San Francisco’s COVID Related Hazard Pay Emergency Ordinance, which temporarily requires large grocery and retail pharmacy stores, like drug stores, and the...more
On March 1, 2021, the City Council of San Mateo, California, adopted “An Emergency Ordinance Requiring Large Grocery Stores and Large Drugstores to Provide Hazard Pay to their Employees” to ease the burdens caused by the...more
On March 2, 2021, the City Council of Santa Ana, California, passed an urgency ordinance establishing premium pay for grocery and retail pharmacy workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Santa Ana is the county seat of Orange...more
On February 24, 2021, the Los Angeles City Council voted 14-1 to pass an ordinance mandating that employers provide $5/hour in additional premium hazard pay for on-site grocery and drug retail workers. The ordinance is...more
On February 16, 2021, the City Council of San Leandro, California, passed an ordinance titled “Retail Food Worker Hazard Pay Ordinance,” which establishes premium pay for retail food workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. San...more
On February 23, 2021, the City Council of Irvine, California, passed a hero pay ordinance entitling retail grocery store and drug store workers premium pay for hours worked during the COVID-19 pandemic. Irvine is located in...more
New Jersey Attorney General (AG) Gurbir S. Grewal announced on November 2, 2020, that his office has settled with ShopRite’s parent company, Wakefern Food Corp. (Wakefern) and two of its supermarket entities for $235,000 for...more
On September 5, 2020, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer issued Executive Order 2020-178, which continues protections offered under previous Executive Order 2020-168 (now rescinded) for frontline workers in grocery stores and...more
On March 19, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an Executive Order requiring Californians to “stay at home or at their place of residence” until further notice except as needed to maintain continuity of 16...more
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors just passed the Grocery Store, Drug Store, Restaurant, and On-Demand Delivery Services Employee Protections ordinance, requiring San Francisco employers to provide additional health and...more
On April 7, 2020, Mayor Eric Garcetti issued three emergency orders that have an impact on employers in the City of Los Angeles: (1) requiring 80 hours of COVID-19-related paid sick leave to employees of large employers; (2)...more
On March 24, 2020, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) issued a Public Health Advisory which directs individuals over the aged 70 and those with underlying health conditions to stay at home, and requires all...more
On December 17, 2019, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued an Advisory Opinion regarding a proposed supermarket loyalty program that would have provided customers with rewards points on out-of-pocket costs related to...more
On December 17, 2019, OIG published Advisory Opinion 19-06 approving a supermarket’s expansion of a loyalty program to allow customers to earn rewards points on out-of-pocket costs paid in connection with the purchase of...more
Many retail pharmacies, supermarkets and other retailers offer rewards cards that offer discounts on certain items to be purchased in the store. They give you the cards that contain a bar code in regular size, which looks...more
Retailers should implement hazardous waste management plans, even for simple consumer goods, as California, New York and other states launch aggressive enforcement campaigns. In recent years, California prosecutors...more
The first quarter of 2015 brought two significant settlements against retailers for alleged violations of California’s hazardous waste laws. The settlements are the latest in a string of similar California enforcement...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced today that it is seeking public comments on a proposed study of the effectiveness of the FTC’s orders in merger cases where it ordered a divestiture or other remedy....more
Environmental and Policy Focus - California becomes first state to ban plastic bags: SFGate.com - Sep 30: Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill Tuesday that makes California the first state in the nation to ban single-use...more