Happy New Year! As 2022 is almost over, for our last post of the year, we have compiled the most popular articles, podcasts, and videos we shared with you in 2022. Here is our most popular content from 2022:
The Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act or FAST Recovery Act was signed into law by California Governor Gavin Newsom in September, proposes to establish a Fast Food Sector Council to regulate California’s fast food restaurants. However, the law has been challenged and the Save Local Restaurants Coalition, submitted over one million signatures on December 5, 2022, in opposition to the FAST Act to potentially block the new law.
However, on December 27, 2022, the Department of Industrial Relations stated that it would enforce the law until the Secretary of State verifies the signatures, which would likely not occur until the second half of January 2023. The Save Local Restaurants Coalition filed a lawsuit to stop the DIR from enforcing the law on January 1. Employers will need to closely watch developments on the DIR’s enforcement position on the law, and the lawsuit attempting to stop enforcement of the law given the signatures gathered as part of the referendum. Our article provides additional information on the FAST Act here: http://ow.ly/90fR50M1klr
In this episode, we discussed the U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision in Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana, holding that the FAA preempts California’s prohibition on the employer’s ability to contract...
South Africa’s Ambassador to the United States, Roelf Meyer, has rejected claims of a so-called “white genocide”, describing the narrative as false and driven by a small group seeking to influence...