Advocacy Alerts

The 20th annual meeting between the California Chamber of Commerce and Japan business leaders highlighted California’s continuing interdependence with one of its largest trade and investment partners.

A California Chamber of Commerce job killer bill that will eliminate an agricultural employee’s right to cast an independent vote in secret union ballot elections and a job killer bill that increases costs and liability on employers in the garment industry have passed the Legislature and are headed to the Governor’s desk.

The recession is officially over. It ended more than a year ago, but it takes time for the group of economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the organization that determines peaks and troughs of a business cycle, to wait for all the revised economic data to formally determine the start and end of recessions.

Erika Frank, longtime general counsel and executive vice president of legal affairs for the California Chamber of Commerce, has accepted a position at the Shaw Law Group, a leading employment law firm in Sacramento.

Privacy legislation with broad consequences for the business community at large was stopped for the year in the Senate thanks to the opposition of the California Chamber of Commerce and coalitions of industry and employer groups.

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) kicked off its every-five-years Scoping Plan process this summer with a series of virtual workshops.

The California Chamber of Commerce and a coalition of local chambers of commerce are fighting enactment of a job killer bill that seeks to force agricultural employees into unionizing.

Registration is now open for CalChamber’s annual HR Symposium. Like last year, this year’s event will be held virtually, providing two half-days of live presentations:

Legislation to increase the supply of new housing and improve the quality and affordability of housing in the state, all while maximizing local land use decision making, passed the Assembly this week with support from the California Chamber of Commerce and a coalition of advocacy groups.

As the Delta variant contributes to the recent surge in COVID-19 cases, state and other dashboards for tracking the virus illustrate the ongoing volatility of the situation.

When called on to take immediate emergency action to conserve energy by Governor Gavin Newsom, California Chamber of Commerce members responded, helping to avert rolling blackouts and keep the lights on for all Californians.

The following answers to questions posed by the California Chamber of Commerce are from Paula Estévez, general manager of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Chile.