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On Monday, July 31, the California Department of Finance Director Joe Stephenshaw officially certified that beginning January 1, 2024, California’s minimum wage will increase from $15.50 per hour to $16 per hour for all employers, regardless of size.
The following list summarizes top priority bills for the California Chamber of Commerce and their status as of July 14, when the Legislature began its summer recess.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed is preparing the city to host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders Meeting this November and has announced honorary APEC Committee members, including California Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis, who will serve as APEC Host Committee finance chair.
The California Supreme Court ruled last week that employees may take nonindividual claims to court even if a valid arbitration agreement requires their own claims to be arbitrated.
Inside this edition of Alert is a list summarizing the status of top priority bills for the California Chamber of Commerce and the business community as of the start of the Legislature’s summer recess.
UPS has reached a tentative contract with its 340,000-person union, potentially averting a strike that threatened to disrupt package deliveries for millions of businesses and households nationwide.
The California Supreme Court ruled this week that employees may take nonindividual claims to court even if a valid arbitration agreement requires their own claims to be arbitrated.
On July 14, 2023 — two weeks after the Sacramento Superior Court ruled that the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) must delay enforcement of any individual regulation related to the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), amending the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), for a one-year period following the date the regulation goes into effect — California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced an “investigative sweep” into compliance with the CCPA provisions already in effect.
After strong opposition from the California Chamber of Commerce and a broad coalition of public and private water agencies and users, legislative committees this week doused two major bills that would have undermined more than a century of water rights protections in California and given state regulators broad and unaccountable powers to modify and reduce water rights. A third measure was productively negotiated and improved.
On July 6, 2023, the California Supreme Court issued a significant ruling related to “take-home-COVID-19.”
Two California Chamber of Commerce-opposed bills creating climate change-related reporting challenges for large companies and potential increased costs for all businesses passed an Assembly policy committee this week.
This week, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a slate of bills to accelerate critical infrastructure projects across California that upgrade the electric grid, ensure safe drinking water and improve the state’s water supply, and modernize the transportation system.