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Court says cities can ban layoffs by new owners
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 7/19/11 | Bob Egelko

Posted on 07/19/2011 9:40:09 AM PDT by Nachum

California cities can protect workers from being fired immediately when their company changes owners, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday.The 6-1 decision reinstated a Los Angeles ordinance, struck down by lower courts, that required supermarkets to keep their workforce for 90 days after a new owner takes over. Similar laws covering different industries are in effect in other cities - including Oakland, San Jose, Berkeley and Emeryville - and the state also has a law protecting janitors who work for building contractors. "When you're keeping a business open and all you're doing is changing the name

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: antibusiness; ban; biglabor; cities; court; elizabethgrimes; grimes; kathrynwerdegar; layoffs; micklewerdegar; protectionism; unions
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To: FourPeas

Kathryn Mickle Werdegar

She earned her B.A. with honors at the University of California, Berkeley

Pete Wilson tapped his old law school chum Kathryn Mickle Werdegar for the California Supreme Court in 1994

After graduation, she worked at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington D.C

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California Wage Laws Cover Nonresidents, Justices Rule

Jul 1, 2011 – “The Legislature knows how to create exceptions for nonresidents when that is its intent,” Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar wrote in Sullivan ...


61 posted on 07/19/2011 10:59:18 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Nachum

Well, that means CA companies will not be acquired. They will go bankrupt...or simply close instead.


62 posted on 07/19/2011 11:07:45 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: BipolarBob

I drank my $ all away.


63 posted on 07/19/2011 11:08:02 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: kcvl

She does look like a Weird Gar.


64 posted on 07/19/2011 11:09:13 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: Nachum

This was in CA. The selling company shut down the company two weeks before the sale, the buying company then entered negotiations(we all know they had finished them weeks before that)and bought the plant, then they opened it and hired whom they wanted, it had the added bonus of voided the existing Union contract and entering into new negotiations, we all took a pay cut but we kept our jobs, at least most of us did.


65 posted on 07/19/2011 11:09:16 AM PDT by calex59
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To: WOBBLY BOB
WOBBLY BOB "next will be a ban on companies being able to move away..."

Ask Boeing about that.

66 posted on 07/19/2011 11:12:32 AM PDT by TheShaz
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To: WOBBLY BOB

What can hostel employees who know or think that they’re going to loose their jobs in 90 days do to a business?


67 posted on 07/19/2011 11:19:53 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again.")
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To: Hot Tabasco

he’s my brutha from another mutha.

(we’re all brothers here...can’t you feel the love?)


68 posted on 07/19/2011 11:20:28 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: Gen.Blather

There are plenty of ways to buy just the assets, but why does a businessman want assets he cannot use to make a profit?


69 posted on 07/19/2011 11:20:28 AM PDT by steve8714
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To: Hodar

Maybe nothing.

Before liberals screw something up, there’s usually at least some tough case that the law was TRYING to fix, and that tough case may not be as simple as banning unemployment. If the seller has make whatever workforce change he needs as a condition of a sale, then the seller can know the buyer’s intent before selling. Of course, typically the good intent of government is usually foiling the invisible hand, and the bad guys find loopholes and payoffs, and the law ends up affecting only those the government tried to make sure would be not affected.


70 posted on 07/19/2011 11:22:25 AM PDT by dangus
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To: rawhide

Yep, just go for broke. Why are they messing around with minimum wage at 7.25 or whatever it is? Just give us everything we want.


71 posted on 07/19/2011 11:24:32 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: NativeNewYorker
Simplistically, this means the bid for any Kali business will be reduced by the value of the unwanted labor expense.

Actually, I would claim that this means that businesses won't be purchased in California or that those do get purchased might be at extremely deflated values. I'd like to know how many deals are being walked away from as I type this.

72 posted on 07/19/2011 11:24:43 AM PDT by voicereason (The U.S.A. doesn't need sex......Obama is already screwing the country daily.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

That’s okay. The rest you just wasted.


73 posted on 07/19/2011 11:25:13 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Yes I backed over the vampire but I swear I didn't see him in the rearview mirror.)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

When you say “drilling”, I’m going to assume oil.
You made the right decision.
Our Family business has worked in the patch, here in California for 52 years and I can’t believe how bad it’s got.

30 minute jobs now take 3-4 hours due to safety meetings and
paper work because of rules and regulations.

One of my best and long time customers, Went so far as to
have safety consultants audit MY business for compliance with
all State and Federal Labor laws, Environmental rules & regulations,
Health & Safety codes.
I finally had enough and told them to piss off and find another vendor.
That was a really tough decision with this economy, but it just wasn’t worth it anymore.


74 posted on 07/19/2011 11:28:42 AM PDT by twistedwrench
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To: voicereason
businesses won't be purchased in California

...yes, it might be that transactions would have to be structured NOT as a business sale, but as the disposal of assets not currently in use....

75 posted on 07/19/2011 11:30:42 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: Nachum

This is very simple. It reduces the purchase price of a company by exactly the cost of keeping employees on.


76 posted on 07/19/2011 11:31:40 AM PDT by jimfree (In 2012 Sarah Palin will have more quality executive experience than Barack Obama.)
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To: Lazamataz
But then you wouldn't have me in GA.

You say that like it's a bad thing :-)

77 posted on 07/19/2011 11:31:52 AM PDT by from occupied ga (your own government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: FlipWilson

I’d appreciate your view on Obama, the man voted into office by 51% of American voters. Do the other 49% of us deserve him too?


78 posted on 07/19/2011 11:54:37 AM PDT by B4Ranch (Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are...)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Next up: The Anti-Dog-Eat-Dog legislation!


79 posted on 07/19/2011 11:55:00 AM PDT by hadit2here ("Most men would rather die than think. Many do." - Bertrand Russell)
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To: Nachum

This sound like something the unions are behind, or will be very soon.


80 posted on 07/19/2011 12:11:01 PM PDT by matt04
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