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OSHA received reports of over 1,000 heat-related injuries, illnesses and fatalities from 2017 to 2022, including 211 deaths. While California has heat safety standards in place for both indoor and outdoor workers, there isn’t a federal rule in place — yet.

California fast-food workers will earn a $20 minimum wage in April. Other employers might have to raise their pay floor to recruit and retain staff.

The health care increase is a carefully crafted compromise between the health care industry and labor unions. It will preempt local governments from imposing their own minimum wage increases for health care workers.

Kaiser Permanente, based in Oakland, California, confirmed the deal in a social media post. The unions had said bargaining sessions had been scheduled for this week.

Newsom signed several laws on Wednesday including one that increases paid sick days for workers and another that limits when local governments can count votes by hand.

Newsom says he rejected the bill because the fund the state uses to pay unemployment benefits is in debt.

A deal announced Monday by labor groups and the fast food industry would give workers a $20 minimum wage and pull a measure off the 2024 ballot. The Legislature has until Thursday to approve it.

A bill introduced this week would make California the third state to pay striking workers, joining New York and New Jersey. But unlike most states, California currently doesn't have enough money to pay the benefits owed to unemployed workers.

Jose Martinez has picked America's food for decades. With all that experience on different farms, he saw workers lacking labor protections. Now he works to give farmworkers more rights.

A tentative agreement between UPS and the Teamsters has averted a potential strike at the company. The deal will secure pay raises for part-time workers.