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California Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders have agreed to restore funding to the Industrial Welfare Commission, which has the power to regulate wages, hours and working conditions in California.
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The union for thousands of West Coast dockworkers has reached a tentative agreement on a new contract after more than a year of negotiations and several work disruptions that snarled shipping traffic at some of the largest ports.
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The ruling mostly upholds a voter-approved law that said drivers for ride-share companies are independent contractors and are not entitled to benefits like paid sick leave and unemployment insurance.
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State Sen. María Elena Durazo and Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West want to give health facility support staffers a raise. Hospitals, nursing homes, and dialysis clinics are expected to resist.
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January’s rains flooded farm fields and orchards. Many California farmworkers lost weeks of pay. Advocates say the state should help them weather such crises. A leading proposal would pay $300 a week to undocumented workers.
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In 2023, companies with at least 15 workers will need to add pay ranges to job postings. Larger companies will also have to report more data to the state.
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The fast food and oil industries are only the latest to seek a referendum to stop, or at least delay, a law passed by the state Legislature. The return on investment can be huge — so much money that some are calling for changing the referendum rules in California.
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New U.S. Census Bureau data shows a large segment of Californians are working from home for part or all of the week. Researchers say the shift will ripple through the broader economy in ways big and small.
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The United Farm Workers and the California Farm Bureau are supporting the bipartisan Farm Workforce Modernization Act, which would create a pathway to citizenship for the nation’s undocumented farmworkers.
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The labor organizer – a Mexican American with radical views on immigration, who swore by nonviolence but subsidized an illegal border patrol operation – was a man of many contradictions.