Legislative, Regulatory & Legal

Paid Sick Leave laws have spread like wildfire across several states and cities, each with their own unique requirements.     Employers in California may find themselves navigating a web of requirements. The state of California’s paid sick leave statute went into effect in July 2015, and there are also local ordinances in the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Emeryville, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and San Diego.    

The contractor that flies packages for Amazon and DHL Worldwide Express, ABX Air, has asked a federal judge to force its striking pilots back to work as it looks to put an early end to what could be a major disruption to holiday deliveries, Bloomberg reported.   

Is Visa violating retailers’ “freedom of choice?”   The National Retail Federation, among other retail associations, believe so, claiming that the card issuer is using new Europay MasterCard Visa (EMV) technology to steer debit card transactions to its own processing network. According to the Federal Reserve, this violates merchants’ legal right to competition over who will process the transactions, according to a statement from NRF.  

Beleaguered American Apparel has filed its second Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in just a little over a year. But this time around its future as a retailer looks even more uncertain.  

With some 2,975 team members in its 123 company-owned restaurants and support center, Fazoli’s, the nation’s largest fast-casual Italian restaurant chain, is addressing the Department of Labor’s new overtime rule head on. CSA spoke with Carl Howard, president and CEO of Fazoli’s, about the company’s strategy regarding the new regulations, scheduled to take effect December 1.   How do you think the new overtime rule will impact your workplace?

A Trump administration increases the chance that Walgreens Boots Alliance will successfully close its proposed acquisition of Rite Aid, though the deal's actual closing date may be extended further into first quarter 2017, according to a Seeking Alpha report.   

As the country continues to nurse its emotional Election Day hangover, businesses, including retailers, are contemplating what policies from President Elect Trump’s agenda will be tackled first in an effort to “Make America Great Again.”