Supermarkets to decide on battle against council.Supermarket representatives are expected to meet this week to consider launching a legal challenge to a recently passed L.A. ordinance requiring purchasers of grocery stores to retain existing workers for 90 days. The landmark ordinance, which the City Council passed last month on a veto-proof 11-2 vote, marks the first time the city has stepped into the hiring and firing decisions of private sector companies that do not receive city funds. After the vote, a spokesman for L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa (born Antonio (Tony) Ramon Villar, Jr. on January 23, 1953) is the mayor of Los Angeles, California. He is the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since Cristobal Aguilar in 1872. said he intends to sign the bill, although as of late last week he had not yet done so. The vote was timed to news of a pending buyout of Boise-based Albertsons Inc. and its 20 L.A. stores. However, on the day following the City Council's Dec. 21 vote, the Albertsons board broke off talks with a consortium that included the CVS (1) (Concurrent Versions System) A version control system for Unix that was initially developed as a series of shell scripts in the mid-1980s. CVS maintains the changes between one source code version and another and stores all the changes in one file. Corp. drugstore chain, Cerberus Capital Management and Kimco Realty Corp. The ordinance requires that purchasers of all stores larger than 15,000 square feet retain existing workers for 90 days after the sale takes effect. After that, the purchasing company must complete a performance evaluation Performance evaluation The assessment of a manager's results, which involves, first, determining whether the money manager added value by outperforming the established benchmark (performance measurement) and, second, determining how the money manager achieved the calculated return for each existing employee and consider offering continued employment to all satisfactory employees. The ordinance allows employees to file lawsuits. If the purchasing company is found in violation, it could be required to reinstate To restore to a condition that has terminated or been lost; to reestablish. To reinstate a case, for example, means to restore it to the same position it had before dismissal. former employees with back pay. In proposing the ordinance, City Councilman Alex Padilla Alex Padilla is a politician in California. He was elected as the State Senator for the 20th District of California in November 2006 and was inaugurated in early December. In order to enter the Senate he had to resign as Councilman for the 7th District on the Los Angeles City said he was responding to concerns that health and safety practices among food handlers could be compromised if new employees are brought on too quickly. Grocery store owners and business groups, including the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Area Chamber of Commerce, say the ordinance is an unwarranted intrusion into the private sector. They also said that public health was a flimsy justification for broadening the city's powers. "We fail to see how the ordinance accomplishes that goal," California Grocers Association president Peter Larkin told the council immediately before the vote. Chief Assistant City Attorney David Michaelson said in a report to the council that "this (ordinance) is a relatively new and untested application of the city's police powers police powers n. from the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, which reserves to the states the rights and powers "not delegated to the United States" which include protection of the welfare, safety, health and even morals of the public. ." |
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