Legal Challenge to California Law Restricting Captive Audience Meetings

On December 31, 2024, just before the January 1, 2025 effective date of the California Worker Freedom from Employer Intimidation Act, two well-known and established California business groups filed a federal court challenge to the new law which prohibits employers from subjecting, or threatening to subject, employees to discharge, discrimination, retaliation, or other adverse action for declining to attend an employer-sponsored meeting or to participate in, receive, or listen to any communications with the employer or its agents or representatives, for the purpose of communicating the employer’s opinion about religious or political matters.