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Amended Cal-OSHA Regulation Exemption Bill

March 4, 2021 2:26 pmMarch 4, 2021 2:27 pm

On March 3, Senator Connie Leyva (D-Chino) amended her Senate Bill 410 to exempt certain Cal-OSHA regulations from a regulatory impact assessment. The bill would amend Labor Code Section 142.4. Existing law provides that Occupational safety and health standards and...

Gov. Newsom Introduces $2 Billion School Reopening Plan

December 30, 2020 2:35 pm

On Wednesday, Governor Gavin Newsom announced in a $2 billion plan to reopen schools across California beginning in February, with all grades expected to be back in classrooms by the spring. The plan, known as the Safe Schools for All...

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra

AG Becerra Petitions Court to Order Amazon to Comply With Subpoenas

December 15, 2020 2:24 amDecember 14, 2020 9:28 pm

On Monday, outgoing California Attorney General Xavier Becerra petitioned the Sacramento County Superior Court to order Amazon to comply with subpoenas over how the company has protected it’s workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Becerra’s petition says that Amazon has not...

Barbershop, Salon Coronavirus Bans Retracted By Governor Newsom

July 21, 2020 6:34 am

On Monday, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that barbershops, hair and nail salons, and other similar businesses could now reopen, albeit with strict rules in place for all reopening businesses. Under the new guidelines, all salons and barbershops will need to...

Domestic Worker Cal/OSHA Protection Expansion Bill Set For Assembly Hearings

July 14, 2020 9:23 pmJuly 14, 2020 7:50 pm

This week, both supporters and opponents of a bill that would add Cal/OSHA protections for household domestic workers built up their cases during legislative recess before an expected Assembly Labor and Employment Committee hearing to be held in the coming...

Citizen Power: Masks Off and Health Director Out in OC

June 19, 2020 10:19 amJuly 3, 2020 10:15 am

If you read the myriad of misleading online newspaper headlines in California you would be led to believe that Gov. Newsom’s new “order” that masks must be worn outdoors is an enforceable state law (see here, here, here, here, here)....

Statewide Plastic Bag Ban Suspended Until June

April 24, 2020 1:39 pm

On Thursday, Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order to suspend the 2016 plastic bag ban for 60 days out of COVID-19 coronavirus concerns. The law, which started out as Senate Bill 270 in 2015 and later as Proposition 67...