A bill to raise the fast food minimum wage to $20 an hour in California was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom Thursday, with the new wage change to take effect in January 2024. Assembly Bill 1228, authored by...
The Los Angeles Unified School District refused to lift its COVID vaccine mandate, even after the state’s COVID emergency order was lifted last February 2023. LAUSD consequently faced lawsuits over the vaccine mandate as some district employees were left on...
Imagine if you will the best Super Bowl ever. You and your friends have just watched a three-overtime game featuring amazing catches, a punter pull a fake and run 72 yards for a touchdown, thirteen lead changes, two successful onside...
The California Labor Code, in Division 2, Part 2, Chapter 1, provides for general working hours in this state for employees. Chapter 1 was enacted in 1937 by Chapter 90. Labor Code Section 500 defines the following terms: “workday,” “day,”...
Governor Gavin Newsom this week signed more than twenty bills to enact a series of gun control statutes in California. From my “legislative geek” perspective, there are two interesting provisions contained in the two main bills: SB 2 and AB...
UPDATE below: Senate Bill 2 by Senator Anthony Portantino’s (D–Burbank), which is California’s response bill to New York Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, was signed into law Tuesday. SB 2 enacts numerous “sensitive locations” where guns are banned, and changes...
Will Bay Area residents and business owners realize the politicians they voted in are responsible for the staggering crime they are now protesting? Target just announced it is closing its Bay Area stores. Walgreens has closed at least 11 stores...