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Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger forced state workers to take as many as three furlough days a month following the Great Recession, reducing their pay by about 15%. The move sparked a multi-year ...
Labor organizations filed lawsuits and took other actions in an attempt to stop the furloughs of state workers. [9] On Jan. 29, 2009, a Superior Court Judge ruled that Schwarzenegger had emergency furlough power, and on February the 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento said the appeal to the decision came too late and was incomplete, so judges were unable to determine if a halt to state ...
The last time the state faced a large deficit in 2020, Newsom used a furlough-like program to cut state worker pay for a year, giving public employees two days of paid leave per month in exchange.
California Assembly Bill 5 or AB 5 is a state statute that expands a landmark Supreme Court of California case from 2018, Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court ("Dynamex"). [1] In that case, the court held that most wage-earning workers are employees and ought to be classified as such, and that the burden of proof for classifying ...
Employees entitled to notice under the WARN Act include managers and supervisors, hourly wage, and salaried workers. The WARN Act requires that notice also be given to employees' representatives (e.g., a labor union), the local chief elected official (e.g. the mayor), and the state dislocated worker unit. The advance notice is intended to give ...
The state already suspended its popular leave buy-back program as part of an “expenditure freeze” to cut costs. Newsom proposes cutting California state employee telework stipends due to ...
The California Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA) is a cabinet-level agency of the government of California.The agency coordinates workforce programs by overseeing seven major departments dealing with benefit administration, enforcement of California labor laws, appellate functions related to employee benefits, workforce development, tax collection, economic development activities.
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