February 11, 2022
A California city urged the Ninth Circuit Friday to toss an attempt by a hospital to halt a COVID-19 $5-per-hour hazard pay increase for health care workers, arguing that the pay bump expired months ago therefore making the appeal unnecessary.
September 20, 2021
A Culver City, California, hazard pay ordinance for hospital workers was not an improper giveaway to organized labor and does not conflict with federal labor law, the city and a health care workers union have argued while urging the Ninth Circuit not to block the law.
August 23, 2021
The Ninth Circuit should block a Culver City, California, ordinance that gives a pay bump to certain hospital workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a hospital urged in the opening salvo of its appeal, saying the local law is unconstitutional and that federal labor law preempts it.