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Felicia Mello CalMatters El descanso en fin de semana. La jornada laboral de ocho horas. La licencia familiar remunerada. Esos frutos de las victorias laborales son parte de la vida cotidiana en California. Ahora, este verano con bastante movimiento laboral en el estado, puede haber ayudado a inspirar otra...
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Felicia Mello CalMatters The weekend. The eight-hour workday. Paid family leave. Those fruits of labor victories are part of everyday life in California. Now the state’s hot labor summer may have helped inspire another precedent-setting measure, if Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bill on his desk that would allow...
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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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Nance Parry dice que ha enviado más de 1,000 currículums desde que fue despedida en septiembre de 2019. Ha recibido solo una entrevista. Apenas cinco semanas después de lo que Parry pensó que sería un contrato de seis meses, fue despedida de un trabajo como especialista en documentos para...
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Nance Parry says she’s sent out more than 1,000 resumes since she got laid off in September 2019. She’s gotten one interview. Just five weeks into what Parry thought would be a six-month contract, she was laid off from a job as a document specialist for an engineering firm....
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Labor protests and strikes are on the upswing this fall, compared with 2020 when everyone hunkered as the pandemic closed whole sectors of the economy. According to the Cornell University Strike Tracker, California has seen 60 labor strikes from January to the end of November, and...
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Las protestas y huelgas laborales están al alza este otoño, en comparación con 2020, cuando todos se escondieron y la pandemia cerro sectores enteros de la economía. Según el Strike Tracker de la Universidad de Cornell, California ha visto 60 huelgas laborales desde enero hasta finales de...
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Before COVID-19 swept the state, people on unemployment needed to prove they were looking for work to receive the payments. That requirement was lifted during the pandemic but was recently reinstated. If you don’t know where to start to find work, California’s Employment Development Department is offering resources for job-seekers, along...
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Antes de que COVID-19 barriera el estado, las personas desempleadas necesitaban demostrar que estaban buscando trabajo para recibir los pagos. Ese requisito se eliminó durante la pandemia, pero se restableció recientemente. Si no sabe por dónde empezar a encontrar trabajo, el Departamento de Desarrollo del Empleo de California ofrece recursos para quienes buscan...
Felicia Mello CalMatters El descanso en fin de semana. La jornada laboral de ocho horas. La licencia familiar remunerada. Esos frutos de las victorias laborales son parte de la vida cotidiana en California. Ahora, este verano con bastante movimiento laboral en el estado, puede haber ayudado a inspirar otra...
Felicia Mello CalMatters The weekend. The eight-hour workday. Paid family leave. Those fruits of labor victories are part of everyday life in California. Now the state’s hot labor summer may have helped inspire another precedent-setting measure, if Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bill on his desk that would allow...
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...
Nance Parry dice que ha enviado más de 1,000 currículums desde que fue despedida en septiembre de 2019. Ha recibido solo una entrevista. Apenas cinco semanas después de lo que Parry pensó que sería un contrato de seis meses, fue despedida de un trabajo como especialista en documentos para...
Nance Parry says she’s sent out more than 1,000 resumes since she got laid off in September 2019. She’s gotten one interview. Just five weeks into what Parry thought would be a six-month contract, she was laid off from a job as a document specialist for an engineering firm....
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Labor protests and strikes are on the upswing this fall, compared with 2020 when everyone hunkered as the pandemic closed whole sectors of the economy. According to the Cornell University Strike Tracker, California has seen 60 labor strikes from January to the end of November, and...
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Las protestas y huelgas laborales están al alza este otoño, en comparación con 2020, cuando todos se escondieron y la pandemia cerro sectores enteros de la economía. Según el Strike Tracker de la Universidad de Cornell, California ha visto 60 huelgas laborales desde enero hasta finales de...
Before COVID-19 swept the state, people on unemployment needed to prove they were looking for work to receive the payments. That requirement was lifted during the pandemic but was recently reinstated. If you don’t know where to start to find work, California’s Employment Development Department is offering resources for job-seekers, along...