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Texas Court Upholds San Antonio’s Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance Injunction

On March 10, 2021, the Texas Fourth Court of Appeals affirmed the District Court of Bexar County’s entry of a temporary injunction preventing the City of San Antonio’s sick and safe leave ordinance from taking effect. The...more

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Long Beach ‘Hero Pay’ Ordinance Survives Preliminary Injunction

On February 25, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California denied a motion for preliminary injunction brought by the California Grocers Association (CGA) against the City of Long Beach. In California...more

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Temporary Restraining Order Granted Against McDonald’s For Failing to Keep Employees Safe from COVID-19

A temporary restraining order (TRO) was granted against a McDonald’s franchise by a California Superior Court judge in response to the franchise’s alleged inability to take proper precautions to keep the community safe from...more

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Dallas Paid Sick Leave Ordinance Enjoined on Eve of Enforcement

The Dallas paid sick leave ordinance was enjoined less than two days before the City of Dallas was set to begin full enforcement. U.S. District Judge Sean Jordan enjoined the ordinance on March 30, 2020....more

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Dallas Paid Sick Leave Ordinance Struck Down by Federal Court

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A Dallas federal court has issued a preliminary injunction stopping the enforcement of the ordinance enacted by the City of Dallas last year that would have required many Dallas employers to provide paid sick leave to their...more

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Third Circuit Lifts Preliminary Injunction and Green Lights Philadelphia’s Salary History Ordinance

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On February 6, 2020, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Philadelphia’s salary history ordinance and reversed the decision of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania which had held that...more

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Philadelphia Salary History Ordinance Upheld by Court of Appeals

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On Thursday, February 6, 2020, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order upholding Philadelphia’s Salary History Ordinance (the Ordinance). Philadelphia was an early adopter of legislation prohibiting inquiries into...more

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Uncertainty Remains for Texas Paid Sick Leave Ordinances

Over the past two years, city councils in three of the four largest cities in Texas — Austin, San Antonio, and Dallas — each have passed ordinances requiring local employers to provide their employees with paid sick leave. In...more

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Supreme Court, Suffolk County Upholds ZBA Determination Authorizing a Change In Nonconforming Use

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The Supreme Court, Suffolk County recently upheld a determination of the Southampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals (“ZBA”) perhaps ending a lengthy and controversial review of the development of a day camp on residentially...more

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San Antonio City Council Approves Changes to Paid Sick Leave Ordinance

In response to a lawsuit filed by a number of San Antonio business groups, the San Antonio City Council approved certain revisions to the city’s paid sick leave (PSL) ordinance, including renaming it the Sick and Safe Leave...more

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Lawsuit Challenges Dallas Paid Sick Leave Ordinance

On July 30, 2019, a lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas seeking to enjoin the City of Dallas’s paid sick leave ordinance, which is set to take effect on August 1, 2019. The lawsuit,...more

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San Francisco City Ordinance Takes a Hard Hit in Ninth Circuit Soft Drink Lawsuit

Can an en banc decision of a federal appellate court be controversial even when every single active judge of that court agrees with the outcome? The answer is emphatically yes, as confirmed by the Ninth Circuit’s January 31,...more

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Texas Court of Appeals Rules Austin’s Paid Sick Leave Ordinance Unconstitutional

On November 16, 2018, the Third Court of Appeals in Austin, Texas, entered a temporary injunction blocking the implementation of the paid sick leave ordinance that the Austin City Council passed in February 2018. The court of...more

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San Antonio, Texas Enacts Paid Sick Leave Law … But Will It Live to Go Into Effect?

San Antonio, Texas has become the latest jurisdiction to enact a law providing eligible employees with paid leave for their own medical needs, those of family members, and for other covered reasons. The new Ordinance is...more

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Web Exclusive - May 2018: The Top 14 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

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Federal Court Partially Enjoins Philadelphia’s Ban on Salary History Inquiries

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On April 30, 2018, a federal district court in Pennsylvania issued a preliminary injunction against the City of Philadelphia, preventing the City from implementing the portion of its Wage Equity Law that prohibits employers...more

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Minneapolis Paid Sick Leave Faces Legal Fight on Extraterritorial Application

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On May 9, 2018, the Hennepin County District Court issued an order largely upholding Minneapolis’s Sick and Safe Time Ordinance, which provides for sick and safe leave. However, Minneapolis cannot enforce the ordinance...more

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Philadelphia’s Pay Equity Ordinance: When May Employers Request and Consider Salary Information in Light of the Latest Challenge?

On April 30, 2018, Judge Goldberg of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania issued an order granting in part and denying in part a motion brought by the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia...more

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The Gender Pay Equity Movement Goes International

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The national and international spotlight on pay equity is getting brighter by the day. By way of illustration, this post explores two laws that took effect on January 1, 2018, one in California and one in Iceland, and a wage...more

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Federal Appeals Court Hears Next Round In Seattle’s Gig Worker Union Organizing Fight

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The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard argument today over a proposal that would permit ride-sharing drivers who work for companies such as Uber and Lyft to organize and form unions. Given what could be at stake—the potential...more

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Feds Come Out Against Seattle’s Law to Unionize Rideshare Drivers

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The gig economy just got a strong ally in its fight to remain union-free: the federal government. The latest development in the ongoing saga involving an attempt to put into place the nation’s first unionization law that...more

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Unions Win Next Round In Seattle Gig Worker Organizing Battle

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Chalk this round up to the unions. In a pair of decisions issued last week, a Seattle federal judge ruled that Seattle’s January 2016 Ordinance that seeks to allow for-hire drivers to form unions and collectively bargain with...more

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Court Ruling Means We’re One Step Closer To A Unionized Gig Economy

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The battle over organizing workers in the on-demand economy continues to heat up. Yesterday, a federal court in Washington dismissed a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and others challenging the City of Seattle’s...more

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Court Enjoins Milwaukee Over AR Location-based Game Ordinance

A U.S. District Court Judge issued a preliminary injunction against enforcing a Milwaukee county ordinance requiring a permit before implementing certain AR location-based games. As we previously reported, Candy Lab AR,...more

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The City of Philadelphia Has Agreed To Stay The Enforcement of The Philadelphia Wage Equity Ordinance Pending Resolution of Court...

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The City of Philadelphia has agreed to stay the enforcement of the Philadelphia Wage Equity Ordinance, which was to take effect on May 23, 2017, and be codified in the Philadelphia Code at Sections 9-1103((1)(i) and 9-1131. ...more

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