Legal Opinion
California Grocers Assn. v. City of Los Angeles
California Supreme Court
Decided July 18, 2011No. S176099PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
WERDEGAR, J.
The City of Los Angeles, like numerous other municipalities in California and elsewhere, regulates the ability of certain employers to summarily replace the workforce upon acquiring a new business. Is such a worker retention ordinance preempted as intruding upon either matters of health and safety already regulated by the state or matters of employee organization and collective bargaining fully occupied by federal law? We conclude it is not. As well, we conclude the challenged ordinance is fully consistent with both the state and federal equal protection clauses. As the…
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