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General Rules of Withholding Tax on Wages

July 27, 2024 8:00 amJuly 27, 2024 8:21 am

California’s Unemployment Insurance Code in Division 6 concerns withholding tax on wages and Chapter 1 contains general provisions. Section 13000 provides that the Employment Development Department (EDD) has the powers and duties necessary to administer the reporting, collection, refunding to...

California Elections Code Book Published

July 26, 2024 1:00 pmJuly 26, 2024 1:01 pm

Chris Micheli, a long-time contributor to the California Globe, has just released his second practical guide focused on one of California’s 29 Codes. The book is titled “A Practical Guide to the California Elections Code.” The first book dealt with...

California Supreme Court Ends Legal Snafu Over Gig Drivers – Upholds Prop. 22

July 26, 2024 10:53 amJuly 26, 2024 10:55 am

In November 2020, California voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 22, to exempt all rideshare drivers from being classified as employees. But labor unions and some drivers sued to halt the proposition. Thursday, California’s Supreme Court upheld Proposition 22, allowing drivers at Uber,...

Chino Valley Unified Sues California over Erosion of Parental Rights

July 26, 2024 8:44 amJuly 26, 2024 10:54 am

Chino Valley Unified School District has filed a lawsuit against the state of California for the enactment of Assembly Bill 1955. This is the controversial new law recently signed by Governor Gavin Newsom that bars teachers and other school staff...

Vandenberg Space Force Base’s Future Threatened by a ‘Black Hole’ of Red Tape

July 25, 2024 4:00 pmJuly 25, 2024 4:01 pm

Decades ago, Motorola was trying to launch satellites from Vandenberg Air Force Base and the company was about to give up doing business here because of the risks associated with what they called “the black hole of environmental review that...

Ringside: Quantifying California’s Brave EV Future

July 25, 2024 3:01 pmJuly 25, 2024 3:01 pm

Earlier this spring Motor Trend published a brief report with a title that revealed more than a little editorializing: “Guess Which State Is Exploring Replacing Gas Taxes With Surveillance?” And of course, that state is California. Let’s quickly dispense with some editorializing of our...

Sen. Kamala Harris Claimed Ignorance Over Long-time Employee Sex Abuse Case

July 25, 2024 2:09 pmJuly 26, 2024 8:44 am

It was no secret that U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris had her eye on a run for the Presidency in 2020, I wrote in 2018. “Yet Larry Wallace, a senior staffer for Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) reportedly resigned on Wednesday [in...