Putting a Face on Mental Health
The statistics are scary. In February of this year, the CDC released a report saying, “3 in 5 teen girls in the U.S. (57%) felt persistently sad or hopeless in 2021 – more than twice as much as boys, and...
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Grocery Workers Under the Labor Code
Labor Code Division 2, Part 9.5 provides for grocery workers. Labor Code Section 2500 provides that supermarkets and other grocery retailers are the primary points of distribution for food and other daily necessities for the residents of California and are...
California Legislature Proposing Unemployment Benefits For Illegal Immigrants
The California Legislature is proposing a program to provide unemployment benefits to illegal immigrants coming to and residing in the state. Senate Bill 277 by State Senator Maria Elena Durazo (D-Los Angeles) proposes income assistance to unemployed “excluded workers” who...
Gov. Newsom Signs Bill to Eliminate Vote-by-Mail Elections and Secret Ballots for Farm Workers
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 113 authored by the Committee on Budget, into law Monday to eliminate vote-by-mail in elections by farm workers for union certification. This will usher in a “card check” system in which United Farm Workers labor...
California Employee Consumer Credit Reports
California’s Labor Code provides for employer use of consumer credit reports. These provisions are contained in Division 2, Part 3, Chapter 3.6, which was added in 2011 by Chapter 724. Labor Code Section 1024.5 prohibits an employer or prospective employer...
Julie Su Underling Calls Migrant Program He Oversees ‘The Purchase of Humans’
A senior Department of Labor staffer a few weeks ago claimed the H-2A migrant worker program “literally is the purchase of humans to perform difficult work under terrible conditions, sometimes including subhuman living conditions.” The staffer also claimed wages are...
Transgender-Industrial Complex: Profitable Child Sex Change ‘Industry’ is Mutating Children for Life
Not long ago, the sexualization of children in public schools was verboten. Abusers in the education system were actually prosecuted for luring a child for sex. Now, lawmakers like California’s Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) have authored legislation effectively legalizing...