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8 Nov, 2006 4:30 pm
... and ordered Ralphs to pay $50 million in restitution to an 19,000 workers and their unions. Attorneys for the company reported to the court that the workers have already been paid. The worker restitution awards were intended to cover seven ... this month that several
law firms may be facing an investigation into their role in the criminal conduct by their Ralphs Grocery Co. officials. The plea agreement included a waiver of some attorney-client privileged communications. Those communications could ...
23 Aug, 2007 2:47 pm
The California Supreme Court decision today in Prachasaisoradej v. Ralphs Grocery, finally clarified
once-and-for-all that employer profit-based incentive plans are permissible in California. For the uninitiated, this might seem like ... some of which resulted in multi-million dollar
settlements) was that the employer's plans illegally required workers to foot part of the bill for the company's business expenses because any
increase in expense items could result in lower wages. The Ralph's Groceries ...
24 Aug, 2007 11:08 pm
... , 400 through 410, or 3751, or (c) California Code of Regulations, title 8, section 11070? Ralphs Grocery Company, Inc. implemented a written incentive compensation plan whereby certain employees of each store were
eligible ... ] did not create an expectation or entitlement in a specified wage, then take deductions or contributions from that wage to reimburse Ralphs for its business costs. At the outset, all Plan participants received, regardless of the store's performance, their guaranteed normal ...
23 Aug, 2007 10:53 am
In Prachasaisoradej v. Ralph's Grocery Co., ___ Cal.4th ___ (Aug. 28, 2007), the Supreme Court held 4-3 that the plaintiff employee had
not ... : We confront a significant question of California wage law. Defendant Ralphs Grocery
Company, Inc. (Ralphs), a supermarket chain, implemented a written incentive compensation plan (ICP
or ... employees to contribute to them. Slip op. at 1. It concludes: [W]e hold that Ralphs' profit-based supplementary ICP, designed to reward
employees beyond their normal pay ...
22 Aug, 2007 6:30 pm
Today, the Supreme Court announced that it will hand down its decision in this case tomorrow: PRACHASAISORADEJ (EDDY) v. RALPHS GROCERY COMPANY, INC. S128576 (B165498/B168668 - Los Angeles County Superior Court - BC254143) Argued in Los Angeles
6-06-07 ... section 11070? When the decision is posted at 10:00 a.m., it should be available at this link. My prior posts on the case are here, here, and here. The Court of Appeal's
opinion is Prachasaisoradej v. Ralphs Grocery Co., 122 Cal.App.4th 29 (2004).
11 Apr, 2008 6:00 am
... ) disposed of one of those Gentry "grant and hold" remand cases. Massie v. Ralph's Grocery Co., no. B187844 (nonpub. opn. Apr. 7,
2008). The case has been remanded back to the trial court for it to decide, in the first instance, whether the arbitration provisions are ... and prohibit proceedings on a class or
representative basis. In a prior opinion, we affirmed. (McLeod v. Ralphs Grocery Company (May 14, 2007, B187844/B187854) [nonpub. opn.], review granted Aug. 8, 2007, ...
15 Dec, 2008 7:00 pm
Ralphs Grocery Company has lost some high profile attempts
to enforce its employee arbitration ageements, but it recently won one in Macias v. Ralphs Grocery
Co. (2nd App. Dist, Div 2, Case No. B202625) , wherein the trial court denied their ... the order was reversed on appeal. The Second District did not publish the opinion. No petition
for review was filed, but Ralphs sought publication of the opinion, and the Supreme Court denied the publication request.
1 May, 2008 3:00 pm
... he was agreeing to mandatory arbitration, and thus could not be bound by a "dispute form" used by Ralphs Grocery for its dispute resolution process. The company's policy provides an agreement to arbitrate as part of the
request for dispute resolution. The form is ... I don't think I can find there is . . . in the real world a meeting of the minds between Mr. Metters and Ralphs based on this." Thus, The record contains substantial evidence to support the trial court's finding that there was no valid ...
25 Jun 9:35 am
... -out union workers and falsify records during a grocery strike. Acquitted Monday were Patrick McGowan, a former Ralphs regional vice president, and Scott Drew and Karen Montoya, who were zone managers at the supermarket company.
The three were among those charged last September in a 23-count federal indictment ... hide the activity from unions and the federal government during the 2003-04 Southern California
grocery strike. Two others named in the indictment have since pleaded guilty. Click these ...
22 Jun 6:51 am
A former vice president of the parent company of Ralphs supermarkets, and two ex-employees of the
chain were acquitted today in Los Angeles federal court of conspiring to secretly hire locked-out union workers and falsify records during a grocery strike, reports the Orange County Register. The three were among those charged ... activity from unions and the federal government during the 2003-04
Southern California grocery strike. Two others named in the indictment have since pleaded guilty. Read ...
4 Jul 5:50 pm
... location(s) received assorted beef products that have been recalled by JBS Swift Beef Company. This list may not include all retail
locations that have received the recalled product or may ... MO-Missouri 80 STRAUBS 15830 FOUNTAIN PLAZA DRIVE ELLISVILLE MO-Missouri 81 Fairway Groceries 14100 Redfield Drive
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13 Aug, 2007 6:00 am
... Wednesday, August 8, 2007, the Supreme Court issued a "grant and hold" order in another case involving a no-class-action arbitration clause. Massie v. Ralph's Grocery Co., no. S153059. Briefing is deferred pending resolution of Gentry v. Superior Court, ... District, Division Seven) affirmed an order denying an
employer's petition to enforce the arbitration clauses in its company dispute resolution policies, citing Discover Bank. Here are the Court of
Appeal's unpublished opinion ...
24 May, 2007 3:00 pm
... basis, or otherwise, including without limitation in connection with the following litigation: Eddy Korkiat Prachasaisoradej vs. Ralphs
Grocery Company, Los Angeles County Superior Court Case No. BC254143 (commenced July 13, 2001), ...
no benefit whatsoever; to the contrary, it seriously jeopardizes [employees'] rights by prohibiting any effective means of litigating [Ralphs']
business practices. This is not only substantively unconscionable, it violates public policy by granting [Ralphs] a 'get ...
16 Apr, 2008 8:10 am
... Sam Metters, complained of the discrimination and harassment to his employer, Ralphs Grocery
Company. On two occasions, Ralphs sent Metters a letter and "Notice of Dispute & ... sign and
return the form. He understood that he had to do so to have his claims investigated, and he signed. When he later sued the company ... problems
with the process too - the employee said he wasn't given a copy of the company's "Mediation & Binding Arbitration Policy," which was
referred to in the arbitration clause ...
28 Apr, 2008 4:00 pm
The Supreme Court published a case last year regarding the interplay between company expenses and losses and the payment of profit-sharing
bonuses to employees. Prachasaisoradej v. Ralphs Grocery Company, Inc. (2007) 42 Cal.4th 217. We previously discussed the case in a post found at this link. A few months later, the court entered an order awarding
$275,000 in attorney's fees to Ralphs Grocery. Prachasaisoradej appealed. The Supreme Court denied
review. End of story.
23 Aug, 2007 1:56 pm
... my ear. No more. A sliver of sanity was restored today. The California Supreme Court decided in PRACHASAISORADEJ v. RALPHS GROCERY COMPANY, INC., that such bonuses are perfectly legal. That is, employers no longer have to fear giving extra
compensation to ... , to determine the store's profit, upon which the supplementary incentive compensation payments were calculated. By doing so, Ralphs did not illegally shift those costs to employees. After fully absorbing the expenses at issue, Ralphs simply
...
3 Apr, 2008 1:23 pm
... of Appeal recently dealt another blow to arbitration agreements in the employment context. In Metters v. Ralphs Grocery Company, the court affirmed the denial of a motion to compel arbitration of a discrimination and harassment
case. The plaintiff ... Notice of Dispute and Request for Resolution Form," to submit his discrimination and harassment claims to the Company
for internal investigation. The dispute resolution form contained an arbitration provision and when the employee eventually sued Ralph ...
4 Apr, 2008 12:50 pm
... arbitration agreement. Samuel Metters was an employee alleging racial discrimination and harassment against his employer, Ralphs
Grocery. He claimed that a resolution dispute form with a binding arbitration clause was not an enforceable contract, ... Metters had provided
information regarding his complaint outside of the dispute form, without any apparent action by the Company. The Court suggested that because
the arbitration policy required an employee to submit the dispute form for the Company to ...
5 Apr, 2008 12:02 pm
... he was a victim of discrimination and harassment and complained to human resources, and to the President of the company via a hotline.
Ralphs Grocery has a dispute resolution policy and an arbitration agreement that it includes with a
request for dispute ... that is styled "arbitration agreement" or something similarly unambiguous. The trial court and court of appeal agreed that the Ralphs forms did not establish an "agreement to arbitrate" because there was no contractual "meeting of the minds." ...
28 Aug, 2007 4:04 pm
... plans were also possibly unlawful until the California Supreme Court issued its recent decision in Prachasaisoradej v. Ralphs
Grocery Co., Inc. In that ruling, the Court held that an employee bonus plan based on a profit figure ... a deduction of employer's expenses
from its employees' individual commissions or bonuses. Rather, it provided supplemental compensation the company used to "encourage and reward
certain employees' cooperative and collective contributions to the profitable performance of ...
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