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The new year will bring in big changes to California politics and governance.
Many California jurisdictions are ringing in the new year with local minimum wage increases so California employers should double check the local minimum wage(s) in jurisdictions where their employees work and make any necessary adjustments by January 1 to ensure compliance.
In the first set of data collected after the election, small business owners are bullish about growth and profitability.
Congressional committee advises revoking China’s trade status The Washington Post, November 19, 2024
The California Legislature returns today for the start of the 2-year legislative session.
The California Chamber of Commerce Small Business Policy Council recently hosted Tara Lynn Gray, director of the California Office of the Small Business Advocate (CalOSBA), for a meeting that featured a recap of the business legislative wins this year, as well as an update on key state races this election cycle.
A sell-out crowd gathered in Anaheim last week for the 2024 California Chamber of Commerce Public Affairs Conference.
Some key takeaways from this year’s CalChamber poll, The People’s Voice 2024, include the fact that California voters want more focus on growing jobs in the state, protecting our economy, and prioritizing spending on housing, law enforcement, homelessness, public education and economic development.
The California Chamber of Commerce and California voters agreed in supporting four November ballot measures and opposing three, according to this week’s unofficial vote counts.
For the first time, a plurality of California voters has rejected a statewide minimum wage increase, reflecting heightened concerns about the affordability of everyday life.
California employers with five or more employees must provide one hour of harassment prevention training to nonsupervisory employees and two hours of training to supervisors. This training must take place within six months of hire or promotion and every two years thereafter. So, if you last trained all your employees in 2022, you must provide training again by the end of 2024. Don’t worry though — CalChamber understands every business has unique training needs and provides several options to help make harassment prevention training easier for you!
Yesterday’s story on the CalChamber poll, The People’s Voice, 2024, reported that California voters have grown more anxious and pessimistic about living in California. Notably, a strong majority believe that the American Dream “once held true but does not anymore.” And by a 3 to 1 margin, voters believe it is “easier to achieve the American Dream in a different state than in California.”