April 25, 2022 – Some 5,000 nurses at Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford went on strike on Monday morning, April 25, for better wages, benefits, and working conditions, after 93 percent voted to authorize a strike. Contract negotiations between the hospitalsâ management and the Committee for Recognition of Nursing Achievement […]
Benchmark Litigation honored Altshuler Berzon LLP with its Labor & Employment Firm of the Year â West Coast Award. Benchmark Litigationâs annual awards recognize distinguished litigators and firms for the work theyâve conducted in the past year, using peer review-based research and submissions to help determine the most impactful cases and the lawyers and law […]
Altshuler Berzon LLP has filed a class action lawsuit against the Long Beach Community College District seeking to change the District’s compensation practices for part-time instructional faculty and obtain damages for minimum wages owed. The lawsuit alleges that the districtâs compensation structure for part-time instructional faculty, also known as adjunct faculty, violates California minimum wage […]
On February 14, 2022, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in HCAOA v. Newsom, rejected a challenge to a California statute that permits labor organizations to obtain registered home-care aidesâ names and telephone numbers from the State, so long as a home-care aide does not object to such disclosure. Two industry groups claimed that the California statute […]
On February 7, 2022, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Barke v. Banks affirmed the dismissal of claims brought by a group of individual local government elected officials challenging California Government Code Section 3550. That law provides that a âpublic employerâ shall not âdeter or discourageâ public employees from becoming or remaining union members or from […]