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Court says cities can ban layoffs by new owners
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 7/19/11 | Bob Egelko

Posted on 07/19/2011 9:40:09 AM PDT by Nachum

California cities can protect workers from being fired immediately when their company changes owners, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday.The 6-1 decision reinstated a Los Angeles ordinance, struck down by lower courts, that required supermarkets to keep their workforce for 90 days after a new owner takes over. Similar laws covering different industries are in effect in other cities - including Oakland, San Jose, Berkeley and Emeryville - and the state also has a law protecting janitors who work for building contractors. "When you're keeping a business open and all you're doing is changing the name

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: antibusiness; ban; biglabor; cities; court; elizabethgrimes; grimes; kathrynwerdegar; layoffs; micklewerdegar; protectionism; unions
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To: Lazamataz

I wish this were a law in MA, NY, and NJ years ago. Then we wouldn’t have so many yankee socialists who, having fouled their nests in their home states, moved to the south and proceded to do everything they could to mess things up here.


41 posted on 07/19/2011 10:16:14 AM PDT by from occupied ga (your own government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: BipolarBob; WOBBLY BOB

Are you two brothers?


42 posted on 07/19/2011 10:16:28 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (You ca't forfeit the game Chuck! If you go home you forfeit!)
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To: houeto
It's yet another Ayn Rand cult reference.

If you're really curious: 10-289

43 posted on 07/19/2011 10:19:14 AM PDT by newzjunkey (immediately cuts under $100 billion need not apply)
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To: Nachum
BUT BUT BUT, The San Francisco Superior Court announced Monday that it's laying off more than 40 percent of its staff .....some 200 of the court's 480 workers will be let go by Sept. 30

Gee that's not 90 days!!!!!!!!!

44 posted on 07/19/2011 10:20:09 AM PDT by Lockbox (`)
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To: Nachum

Directive 10-289.


45 posted on 07/19/2011 10:22:33 AM PDT by nina0113
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To: BipolarBob

They can’t raise property taxes, proposition 13 allows only 1% tax of valuation and the valuation can only be raised 2% per year.


46 posted on 07/19/2011 10:24:08 AM PDT by dalereed
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To: Nachum

“In declining states the leadership intuitively choses the most harmful course of action.”-A Great Historian 1888


47 posted on 07/19/2011 10:25:21 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: NewHampshireDuo

Being a proud New Mexican, I hate Texas, but I nearly moved my operation from NM to TX, since I do a lot of work there and have several yards there.

Our new governor seems to have made a climate change with the gubmint workers.


48 posted on 07/19/2011 10:27:09 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Nothing to see here. Move along.)
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To: from occupied ga
I wish this were a law in MA, NY, and NJ years ago. Then we wouldn’t have so many yankee socialists who, having fouled their nests in their home states, moved to the south and proceded to do everything they could to mess things up here.

But then you wouldn't have me in GA.

49 posted on 07/19/2011 10:29:41 AM PDT by Lazamataz (If you pet a tiny goose, you will feel a little down.)
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To: Nachum

A company I worked for got around this BS by closing the company down for a week after buying it, putting everyone out of work. No one was “fired” there was simply no job to go to. Then they reopened and hired all those that they wanted to work for them and didn’t hire the ones the previous owners saw as problem workers. They weren’t located in any town however, so all they got around were certain state laws.


50 posted on 07/19/2011 10:38:54 AM PDT by calex59
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To: Tijeras_Slim

yep.

Last night - just got to “dinner at Mulligans”

“Gentlemen - Taggart Transcontinental”

Rand has the left pegged...


51 posted on 07/19/2011 10:39:24 AM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: Qbert

“if new owners do buy businesses, they will simply lay off even more people after the 90 day period in order to make up for the increase in expenses during that time.”

Or alternatively part of the MOU would include the seller must take the action of laying off the required workforce before the sale is effective.


52 posted on 07/19/2011 10:40:10 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the "Dave Ramsey Fan" ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: Nachum

what is keeping a business from moving it headquarters out of the state and or city and then firing all the unwanted dead weight?


53 posted on 07/19/2011 10:41:38 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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To: calex59

Sounds good until an attorney wants to sue and then it goes to one of our ‘Uber Liberal’ courts here in California.


54 posted on 07/19/2011 10:42:53 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

All this will do is that now the buyers will require the layoffs take place prior to purchase.


55 posted on 07/19/2011 10:43:54 AM PDT by Truthsearcher
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To: Hot Tabasco; WOBBLY BOB

Actually there are three of us. BaghdadBob was left behind in Iraq, but that was his choice. I am the better looking and most intelligent of the trio but WOBBLY has the money so it all works out.


56 posted on 07/19/2011 10:44:05 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Yes I backed over the vampire but I swear I didn't see him in the rearview mirror.)
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To: Nachum

so basically with this new law anyone that works for a company that just got bought can do ANYTHING and not get fired for 90 days?

Punch the new boss... nope can’t fire them!
Sexually assault a coworker... nope can’t fire them!
Steal the inventory... nope can’t fire them!

Must wait 90 days!

This is freaking INSANE!!!!


57 posted on 07/19/2011 10:44:12 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

‘what is keeping a business from moving it headquarters out of the state and or city and then firing all the unwanted dead weight?’

Which exactly why our state has lost hundreds of businesses this year.


58 posted on 07/19/2011 10:44:12 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

lemme see if i get this right. if you want to keep SOME employees, you have to include ALL of them in the sale, which means significantly less value to the business. the alternative is to close the business altogether, layign off everybody, THEN selling the assets. the new owner can then hire whomever they chose.

sounds like more layoffs are in store for CA...


59 posted on 07/19/2011 10:48:43 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: FourPeas

Kathryn Mickle Werdegar

60 posted on 07/19/2011 10:48:46 AM PDT by kcvl
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