Search for: "Lorena Gonzalez" Results 1 - 20 of 90
Sort by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
7 Jul 2023, 8:01 am by HRWatchdog
About a decade ago, Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) authored the bill that created California’s three-day paid sick leave mandate. [read post]
16 Mar 2023, 9:05 pm by William McDonald
The CEO of the California Labor Federation, Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, lamented that the decision will allow “companies to buy their way out of our state’s labor laws. [read post]
22 Jun 2022, 10:31 am by Tom Smith
” Labor activist Lorena Gonzalez tweeted: “Well #CALeg- Justice Sotomayor just handed huge PAGA changes to you to modify the scope of statutory standing within state & federal constitutional limits in Viking River. [read post]
28 May 2022, 8:10 am by sbarder2@illinois.edu
On September 22, 2021, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law A.B. 701[1] intending to further protect the health and safety of warehouse workers in the state of California.[2] Authored by California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, A.B. 701“strengthen[s] warehouse workers’ rights against arbitrary and abusive work quota systems by requiring companies to disclose work quotas to employees and state agencies, and establish statewide standards to minimize… [read post]
1 Apr 2022, 8:22 am by HRWatchdog
The California Legislature passed AB 51 (Lorena Gonzalez; D-San Diego) in 2019 to ban this practice, but the law is currently being challenged in court, he says. [read post]
20 Jan 2022, 10:21 am by HRWatchdog
Assembly Member Lorena Gonzalez introduced AB 995 (Gonzalez; D-San Diego) last year, which would increase the number of mandated paid sick leave days, but because she resigned at the beginning of this 2022 session, it’s uncertain what will happen to this bill. [read post]
3 Nov 2021, 11:36 am by Matthew Gehring
The incumbent Jenny Durkan and progressive candidate Lorena Gonzalez both took political hits over their handling of the coronavirus pandemic and BLM protests. [read post]
4 Oct 2021, 12:29 pm by Erika Ingram
On September 27, 2021, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez’s Assembly Bill 1003 into law. [read post]
Acting on the first two major employment-related bills of interest to private employers, Governor Newsom on September 22, 2021 approved AB 701 (AM Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego) and vetoed AB 616 (AM Mark Stone, D-Scotts Valley). [read post]
13 Sep 2021, 12:03 pm by HRWatchdog
Opposed Bill AB 1074 (Lorena Gonzalez; D-San Diego), prior to amendments, would have imposed an onerous and stringent process that is unlimited in time for specific employers to return employees to the workforce for specified industries, including hotels and restaurants that have been disproportionally impacted by this pandemic, which would have delayed rehiring and employers’ ability to re-open after being forced to close or reduce operations due to COVID-19. [read post]
23 Jun 2021, 3:40 am by SHG
Seattle City Council president and mayoral candidate Lorena Gonzalez also jumped into the fray. [read post]
24 May 2021, 3:06 pm by William Ford, Matt Gluck
Panelists Lorena Becerra, political analyst and head of public opinion research at Reforma; Amb. [read post]
Apparently changing his perspective in this new legislative year, on April 16, the Governor—in a surprise move that prompted a celebratory tweet from Lorena Gonzalez—signed into law SB 93, which is strikingly similar to the bill he recently vetoed AB 3216. [read post]
4 Mar 2021, 10:02 pm by Gene Takagi
Additional Resources Fact sheet from Assemblywoman Gonzalez Independent contractor versus employee (California Department of Industrial Relations) AB 5 and AB 2257 (Californians for the Arts) SB 805 – Independent contractors: small nonprofit performing arts organizations. [read post]
Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, who wrote the original bill, sought to tackle the misclassification of workers as independent contractors which “has been a significant factor in the erosion of the middle class and the rise in income inequality. [read post]
24 Aug 2020, 2:03 pm by Steve Bainbridge
Keith writes: I have previously written about California Assembly Member Lorena Gonzalez's bill, AB 3075, that would would make successor employers liable for their predecessors' unpaid wage... [[ This is a content summary only. [read post]