[Source: Los Angeles Daily News] Los Angeles County and the Inland Empire saw heavy job losses in January following the meager gains that were posted in December, but California still managed to add nearly 10,000 jobs, the state Employment Development Department reported Friday. L.A. County employers shed 78,700 jobs in January, fueled primarily by a Read More…
Category: California News
San Jose area, Oakland area job markets wobble, sparking economic uncertainty
[Source: East Bay Times] The job markets in Santa Clara County and the East Bay slumped to start out the year, according to a state labor report released Friday that indicated some cracks have materialized in the region’s employment sector. Santa Clara County lost 3,500 jobs while the Alameda County-Contra Costa County area lost 900 Read More…
California Supreme Court says officials’ emails are public records
[Source: Associated Press] The public has a right to access emails and text messages about government business on the private phones and accounts of state and local officials and employees, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday. In a unanimous decision, the court said those communications were subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act Read More…
The immediate threat to California’s climate-change fight isn’t Trump, it’s this
[Source: The Los Angeles Times] With President Trump in the Oval Office, California officials are bracing for the possibility that the new administration will undermine the state’s landmark policies on climate change. But the more immediate threat isn’t coming from Washington; it lies in a lawsuit that has been slowly winding its way through state courts. The 4-year-old Read More…
California’s bullet train is hurtling toward a multibillion-dollar overrun, a confidential federal report warns
[Source: The Los Angeles Times] California’s bullet train could cost taxpayers 50% more than estimated — as much as $3.6 billion more. And that’s just for the first 118 miles through the Central Valley, which was supposed to be the easiest part of the route between Los Angeles and San Francisco. A confidential Federal Railroad Administration risk Read More…
California lawmakers offer a plan to extend the state’s cap-and-trade program
[Source: The Los Angeles Times] A group of lawmakers, including some who have been skeptical of global warming regulations, introduced legislation on Thursday to ensure that California’s cap-and-trade emissions control program remains a permanent part of the state’s climate policy. The measure, AB 151, is only one paragraph long right now, but it represents an opening bid Read More…
On-call rest periods are not allowed, California Supreme Court rules
[Source: CalChamber/HR Watchdog] California employers will need to re-examine their rest-break policies and practices. In a disappointing decision for California businesses, the California Supreme Court ruled today that on-call rest periods are not permissible. Today’s decision will require many California employers to re-examine their rest-break policies and practices. Supreme Court Ruling In Augustus, et al. Read More…
California’s climate fight could be painful – especially on job and income growth
[Source: Los Angeles Times] Californians are likely to pay more for gasoline, electricity, food and new homes — and to feel their lives jolted in myriad other ways — because their state broadly expanded its war on climate change this summer. The ambitious new goals will require complex regulations on an unprecedented scale, but were approved in Sacramento Read More…
Voters narrowly reject Proposition 53 and future votes on big infrastructure projects
[Source: The Log Angeles Times] Proposition 53, an effort that sought to force statewide votes to fund a major water project and the future of high-speed rail, failed in a late count of ballots Tuesday. An Associated Press tally of votes found the ballot measure, which had been trailing since election night, narrowly lost. Proposition 53 would Read More…