We will take as a given for the purposes of this article that California has one actual political party. It is called the Democratic Party but could easily be called any number of things – the Bureaucratic Party, the Oligarch...
In 1996, an insurance company bought another one, the state got in the middle, and the California Endowment was born. When Blue Cross of California acquired the for-profit subsidiary WellPoint Health Networks, state regulators demanded a non-profit health-care focused foundation...
Labor Code Division 2, Part 3, Chapter 7.5 discusses collective bargaining agreements, which was added in 1941 by Chapter 1188. Labor Code Section 1126 provides that any collective bargaining agreement between an employer and a labor organization is enforceable at...
One of my favorite writers ever was the inimitable Erma Bombeck. Dubbed the “Socrates of the ironing board” by Life magazine, she was the queen of sassy, funny, irony and reality. Bombeck was a syndicated columnist, author, sitcom writer, “Good...
Last year, Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 951 by Sen. Maria Elena Durazo (D-Los Angeles) to increase the size and scope of the state’s paid family leave (PFL) program. The bill (he vetoed a similar bill the year before during...
For years, fentanyl has caused tens of thousands of deaths across the country, with many larger cities in California seeing hundreds of deaths a year. In the last few years, San Francisco has been the poster-child of what happens when...
California’s Labor Code, in Division 1, Chapter 4, provides for the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE) and the Labor Commissioner (LC). Labor Code Section 79 established the DLSE within the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). The DLSE is under...