Labor

We need to plan for a virtual future, where tele-health, tele-education, and more are equally available to anyone anywhere in California.

Does California have the chutzpah to pass needed legislation to open the doors wide to recovery? Here are 6 issues the Legislature needs to deal with.

California health care workers face layoffs, furloughs and pay cuts in the coronavirus pandemic as hospitals and medical practices say they're financially bleeding.

California’s top prosecutor sued Uber and Lyft for classifying drivers as independent contractors, depriving them of employee benefits and wages that are even more essential during the coronavirus pandemic.

The April 30 second anniversary of the state Supreme Court’s Dynamex decision and the Assembly Bill 5 it unleashed should be reviewed as soon as possible.

Gov. Gavin Newsom could order that essential employees who contract coronavirus did so on the job and automatically qualify for workers' comp benefits. Businesses warn that could cost billions.

California has the nation’s largest state worker gender pay gap, and Gov. Newsom has challenged state officials to do more to create an equitable workplace.

The nation is counting on California farmworkers to keep them fed, and a farmworkers COVID-19 relief package introduced in the Legislature would help.

The number of undocumented entrepreneurs are a growing in the US, and it is one of the main ways that immigrants can thrive in America’s workforce.

California aims to help businesses shuttered by the coronavirus pandemic by assisting them with inventory problems and credit card debt they’ve amassed. Those are among the ideas to be considered by a new, 80-member task force that Gov. Gavin Newsom created today to guide the state’s economic reopening and recovery.  Co-chaired by former presidential candidate […]