Grocery Store Workers Protected from Termination for 90 days after merger (Labor Code §2504) By Michael Simkin on June 6, 2016 Posted in 2016 New Statutes, Employment For the first 90 days after a grocery store is sold to a new owner, grocery store workers cannot be fired. AB359 codified as Labor Code §2500, et seq. The store must be at least 15,000 square feet.