California Grocers Association v. City of Long Beach, et al

  1. June 10, 2021

    Calif. Grocer Group Drops Hazard Pay Rule Challenge

    A grocers' association told the Ninth Circuit it will drop its challenge to an ordinance in the city of Long Beach, California, requiring grocery stores to pay employees a hazard pay premium during the COVID-19 pandemic, after the city let the requirement expire last month.

  2. April 19, 2021

    Union Tells 9th Circ. Grocer Hazard-Pay Law Passes Muster

    Federal labor law does not prevent the city of Long Beach, California, from requiring certain grocery stores to pay a hazard pay premium during the COVID-19 pandemic, a food workers' union has told the Ninth Circuit, defending the ordinance against a grocers association's challenge.

  3. March 22, 2021

    'Hero Pay' Mandate Violates Labor Law, Grocers Tell 9th Circ.

    A lower court wrongly denied grocers' attempt to stop the city of Long Beach, California, from carrying out an allegedly unconstitutional ordinance granting a pandemic pay bump to supermarket workers, an association argued in the opening salvo of its Ninth Circuit appeal.