FELS Newsletter: May 2023
NLRB Returns to “Setting-Specific Standards” in Determining if Employer Commited Unfair Labor Practices
Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act has long been interpreted broadly by the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) as protecting employees engaged in disputes over wages, hours and working conditions, among other similar disputes. Section 7 of the Act grants employees the “right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to […]
Bad Employment Bills are Moving in the CA Legislature
Both houses of the California Legislature are doing what they usually do: working on bills that will increase burdens on and create new problems for California ag employers. FELS’s parent organization, California Farm Bureau, opposes all these bills and is working to mobilize grass-roots opposition from farm employers. If you’re not a member of a […]
Gov. Newsom Signs Card Check “Clean-up” Bill
On May 15, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 113. The bill implemented the secretly negotiated, backroom deal between California Labor Federation, United Farm Workers, and the governor, allowing him to claim his objections to the card check bill (AB 2183, Stone) that he signed in 2022 were addressed. In truth, the principal […]
The Heat Is On!
Summer returned to California in mid-May, with daytime temperatures in the 90s in many places and in triple digits in the deserts of the south-eastern part of the state. Have you trained your employees yet? Cal/OSHA’s Heat Illness Prevention (HIP) standard requires employers to train outdoor employees and supervisors on heat illness prevention before exposure […]
