June 10, 2021
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.
April 19, 2021
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.
March 22, 2021
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.