New lawsuits target San Jose, Daly City Executive Editor Grocers such as Kroger are offering a one-time reward of $100 to associates who receive the recommended doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The California Grocers Association (CGA) has filed federal lawsuits against the cities of Daly City and San Jose challenging grocery pay mandate ordinances approved in those cities.
The Daly City and San Jose lawsuits allege similar violations of law as cases filed by CGA in Long Beach, Montebello, Oakland, San Leandro and West Hollywood. Daly City has mandated an additional $5/hour and San Jose $3/hour in extra pay for a select group of grocery store employees.
California Grocers Association sues San Jose and Daly City for giving workers hazard pay
By Andre Torrez
FILE - A grocery store worker loads peppers in the produce dept at the grocery store.
SAN JOSE, Calif. - The California Grocers Association is suing the cities of San Jose and Daly City over hazard pay ordinances for grocery workers during the coronavirus pandemic.
The lawsuits filed on Friday call the extra pay mandates in each city illegal.
Last month San Jose mandated a $3 an hour pay boost for its grocery workers and in Daly City a similar ordinance was passed unanimously this week by the city council to boost workers pay $5 an hour.
Washington D.C., Jan 14, 2018 / 05:17 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- This Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be the first without Sister Mary Antona Ebo, the only black Catholic nun who marched with civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Selma, Ala in 1965.
“I’m here because I’m a Negro, a nun, a Catholic, and because I want to bear witness,” Sister Mary Antona Ebo said to fellow demonstrators at a March 10, 1965 protest attended by King. Ebo was, in fact, the only African-American nun at the protest.
The protest took place three days after the “Bloody Sunday” clash, where police attacked several hundred voting rights demonstrators with clubs and tear gas, causing some severe injuries among the non-violent marchers.
Federal judge dismisses lawsuit against Arizona s use of private prisons
U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes on Monday dismissed the class action lawsuit against the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, GEO Group, CoreCivic Inc. and Management and Training Corp. after the state filed a motion.
The lawsuit was filed in June by five inmates and the NAACP. They claimed Arizona is practicing slavery by sending inmates to private prisons to generate revenues and profits for the monetary benefit of corporate owners, shareholders and executive management.
The judge ruled the inmates were not able to provide any allegations supporting their claims.
King County Council passes hazard pay ordinance for grocery store workers in unincorporated areas
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The outside of a Fred Meyer store in Seattle, Wash.CLAIRE MAULDING, SPECIAL TO THE SEATTLEPI
Some grocery store workers in unincorporated areas of King County will soon receive an extra $4 per hour after King County Council became the latest local government to pass hazard pay legislation.
The council approved the legislation Tuesday in an 8-1 vote. The move came after Seattle and Burien both passed hazard pay legislation earlier this year to help provide grocery store workers extra compensation during the coronavirus pandemic.