Labor

Legislation seeks to address physician shortage. Rift develops between labor and cannabis industry. California sees uptick in layoffs.

On a recent school day in Fresno, Fernando Valero repaired a 32,000-pound diesel truck with failed sensors. Then he crawled under another truck before lifting it with a floor jack. The morning school work left his hands black from grease. And his day was just getting started. After lunch, Valero left Duncan Polytechnical High School […]

It’s official: The gap between the Bay Area’s haves and have-nots is wider than anywhere else in the state. Top income earners in the Bay Area make 12.2 times as much as those at the bottom of the economic ladder, according to new research from the Public Policy Institute of California, which analyzed 2018 U.S. […]

Online community college experiences growing pains. Uber and Lyft allowed to conceal drivers' safety records. Traffic fatalities involving cyclists rise.

"Disaster relief" summer schools proposed in wildfire country. A new effort emerges to control health care costs. Stalled bills may rise again.

Amanda Caballero wishes she could go back to work at Amazon. She made $15 an hour at the Fresno fulfillment center — several dollars more than the state’s minimum wage — and received more than three months of paid maternity leave. Her generous health insurance package covered her husband and five children, and she liked […]

Debra Gore-Mann and Paul Goodman, Greenlining Institute: California needs to hold internet service providers accountable. The Federal Communications Commission—the federal agency that is supposed to regulate them—is being run by a chairman bent on eliminating every consumer protection he can get his hands on.

California has extended its tax program three times despite concerns about effectiveness. The real motivation? A desire to defend Hollywood.

Brendan Rawson, San Jose Jazz: California has overreached in its effort to address the challenges in today’s tech platform gig-work economy. The live music sector, the progenitor of the term “gig” work, is being swept up by this law. The irony would be comical if it were not such a serious problem.

Injured workers in California often wait months or even years to receive the medical evaluations they need, as requests for evaluations have soared.