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 LABOR LAW UPDATES 
January 7, 2014

 
 
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What YOU Need to Know
A new video by Mr. Sokol about what YOU need to know about the new affordable care act.  (View Video)


Vote OUT the BART Board
In the aftermath of recent negotiations between Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) unions and the board, some call for the board'souster.  

Mr. Sokol is a shareholder with Weinberg Roger & Rosenfeld.


Pensions Not to Blame for City Fiscal Problems
 Last month, the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College released a study examining whether city financial crises like Detroit’s bankruptcy were likely to happen in other financially troubled cities in the U.S., and whether these cities’ pension obligations were to blame.   (Read More) 

Great News on the Public Sector Front: restrictions on employers’ transfer of work, electronic notice-posting, clearer standards for showing retaliation based on Union-activity and unlawful banning of “sympathy strikes”
 In City of Sacramento (12/24/13) PERB Decision No. 2351-M, the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) found that the City of Sacramento violated the law when it failed to provide a union with sufficient notice of proposed layoffs. (Read More)



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