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If you get laid off, there’s a system that’s supposed to help you get by: unemployment benefits. Whenever California stares down a pandemic or a possible recession, the partial wage-replacement program is one of the most important economic safeguards for workers. But the benefits have become more difficult for...
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Si te despiden, hay un sistema que se supone que te ayudará a salir adelante: las prestaciones por desempleo. Cada vez que California enfrenta una pandemia o una posible recesión, el programa de reemplazo parcial de salarios es una de las salvaguardas económicas más importantes para los trabajadores. Pero...
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Sameea Kamal & Ariel Gans CalMatters ¿Un regalo o una maldición? Para Angelique Ashby, postularse como “defensora de las mujeres” en una acalorada carrera por el Senado estatal en Sacramento podría ser un poco de ambos. Su competidor, Dave Jones, un colega demócrata, acudió a los tribunales para impedir...
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Sameea Kamal & Ariel Gans CalMatters A gift or a curse? For Angelique Ashby, running as a “women’s advocate” in a heated state Senate race in Sacramento might be a little of both. Her competitor, Dave Jones, a fellow Democrat, went to court to block Ashby from using that as her ballot designation...
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On Labor Day, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he’s signing a first-in-the-nation bill creating a council to regulate wages and working conditions in fast food restaurants. The new law will give labor advocates a long-elusive bargaining foothold in a low-wage industry that employs more than half a million non-unionized workers statewide. “California is...
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La Legislatura de California envió el lunes 1º de septiembre al gobernador Gavin Newsom un proyecto de ley, el primero en la nación, que crea un consejo para regular los salarios y las condiciones laborales en los restaurantes de comida rápida. El proyecto de ley laboral daría a los...
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Small business entrepreneurs in California have new access to billions of dollars’ worth of funding to be offered with an explicit eye toward reaching communities too often shortchanged by the financial sector in the past. At a press conference Sept. 20, the U.S. Treasury Department announced having approved California’s application for...
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Se espera mucho de los votantes de California. En cualquier año electoral dado, se nos puede pedir que nos quitemos el polvo de los sombreros de abogados laborales, repasemos las regulaciones de petróleo y gas, nos familiaricemos con décadas de política fiscal o analicemos la financiación de la infraestructura....
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Much is expected of the California voter. In any given election year, we may be asked to dust off our labor lawyer hats, brush up on oil and gas regulations, reacquaint ourselves with decades of tax policy, or analyze infrastructure funding. We may have to weigh the moral pros and cons of capital punishment, marriage equality or pig protection and...
If you get laid off, there’s a system that’s supposed to help you get by: unemployment benefits. Whenever California stares down a pandemic or a possible recession, the partial wage-replacement program is one of the most important economic safeguards for workers. But the benefits have become more difficult for...
Si te despiden, hay un sistema que se supone que te ayudará a salir adelante: las prestaciones por desempleo. Cada vez que California enfrenta una pandemia o una posible recesión, el programa de reemplazo parcial de salarios es una de las salvaguardas económicas más importantes para los trabajadores. Pero...
Sameea Kamal & Ariel Gans CalMatters ¿Un regalo o una maldición? Para Angelique Ashby, postularse como “defensora de las mujeres” en una acalorada carrera por el Senado estatal en Sacramento podría ser un poco de ambos. Su competidor, Dave Jones, un colega demócrata, acudió a los tribunales para impedir...
Sameea Kamal & Ariel Gans CalMatters A gift or a curse? For Angelique Ashby, running as a “women’s advocate” in a heated state Senate race in Sacramento might be a little of both. Her competitor, Dave Jones, a fellow Democrat, went to court to block Ashby from using that as her ballot designation...
On Labor Day, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he’s signing a first-in-the-nation bill creating a council to regulate wages and working conditions in fast food restaurants. The new law will give labor advocates a long-elusive bargaining foothold in a low-wage industry that employs more than half a million non-unionized workers statewide. “California is...
La Legislatura de California envió el lunes 1º de septiembre al gobernador Gavin Newsom un proyecto de ley, el primero en la nación, que crea un consejo para regular los salarios y las condiciones laborales en los restaurantes de comida rápida. El proyecto de ley laboral daría a los...
Small business entrepreneurs in California have new access to billions of dollars’ worth of funding to be offered with an explicit eye toward reaching communities too often shortchanged by the financial sector in the past. At a press conference Sept. 20, the U.S. Treasury Department announced having approved California’s application for...
Se espera mucho de los votantes de California. En cualquier año electoral dado, se nos puede pedir que nos quitemos el polvo de los sombreros de abogados laborales, repasemos las regulaciones de petróleo y gas, nos familiaricemos con décadas de política fiscal o analicemos la financiación de la infraestructura....
Much is expected of the California voter. In any given election year, we may be asked to dust off our labor lawyer hats, brush up on oil and gas regulations, reacquaint ourselves with decades of tax policy, or analyze infrastructure funding. We may have to weigh the moral pros and cons of capital punishment, marriage equality or pig protection and...