Retail stores in California hit by slew of lawsuits

In California, almost every national chain is experiencing some form of lawsuit addressing a failure to offer employees and customers “suitable seating” when the workers perform the majority of their daily tasks standing up. A California labor law has been dug out of the bowels of the legal archives and has creative trial attorneys across the state using it for legal attacks. The law requires retailers such as Target, Home Depot, and Wal-Mart to have enough seats available for all of their workers. Outwardly, it would seem that there isn’t…

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