Workplaces in California could eventually be required to stock first aid kits with naloxone or another opioid overdose reversal medication under the bill signed by Newsom.
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Tens of thousands of L.A. County workers could go on strike Oct. 10, union announces
Union leaders say the county isn’t following the terms of its 2022 labor pact.
California’s workplace violence prevention law is now in effect. Here’s how it changes things
Beginning this month, California businesses will be required to have plans in place to prevent violence in the workplace.
Snap to pay $15 million in discrimination and harassment settlement
Snap Inc. and California’s Civil Rights Department have reached a $15-million settlement to resolve allegations of sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation at the Santa Monica-based company.
Fast-food workers make $20 an hour. California’s other low-wage earners ask: What about us?
Stephon Harris makes $16.35 an hour at the Rancho San Miguel Market, ringing customers up for pints of fresh salsas and masa.
Former California State Parks employee awarded $2.3 million in discrimination lawsuit
A jury awarded a former California State Parks employee nearly $2.3 million after a trial laid bare claims that the agency and a former boss discriminated against him for his Mexican heritage and retaliated when he spoke up while employed in the department’s Malibu region.
Want the right to ignore your boss’ calls after hours? California could make that happen
A San Francisco lawmaker is proposing a bill that would make California the first state in the country to give workers the right to ignore after-hours calls, emails and texts from their employers.
After unionized strippers accused club owner of violating deal, federal labor board intervenes
After strippers at Star Garden, a topless dive bar in North Hollywood, won the right to unionize last year, the club’s owner agreed to reopen the club, hire back dancers he had fired, and run the club as it had been before the labor dispute.
Column: Elon Musk is suing to stop the government from enforcing labor laws. The Supreme Court might agree with him
Few business leaders have taken to heart more than Elon Musk the old lawyer’s saw that if you don’t have the facts or the law on your side at trial, pound the table.
We don’t know how to behave in the office anymore, bosses say. The solution? Charm school
You walk into the office kitchen to heat up your lunch and are greeted by a mess. Your co-worker Bridget has left the communal area in disarray — again.
Gov. Newsom’s response to the wave of California labor bills? It’s a mixed bag
Labor issues have been in the spotlight over the last year, with headline-making strikes by UC workers, thousands of LAUSD’s non-teaching staff, Hollywood writers, hotel workers, the Screen Actors Guild, healthcare workers and autoworkers.
As Hollywood strikes drag on, California lawmakers consider unemployment pay for striking workers
California lawmakers are resurrecting legislation that would allow workers on strike to collect unemployment benefits, reigniting a familiar political battle between labor unions and businesses.
Column: This ‘hot labor summer’ is unifying Los Angeles in a way few could have imagined
It was 4:30 a.m., but the hit sound of this hot summer echoed up and down the streets near City Hall:
California lawmakers want to investigate wage theft. But labor unions seek a different path
On this, labor unions and lawmakers agree: Wage theft is rampant in California, and the state system set up to help robbed workers is broken.
California workers get new protections in 2023. Here’s what you need to know
Far-reaching new laws seek to better working conditions for a broad swath of Californians in 2023 from white-collar employees to blue-collar farm laborers, fast-food servers and construction workers.