Agreements between labor groups and the fast food industry would give workers a $20 minimum wage and pull a measure off the 2024 ballot. The Legislature has until Thursday to approve it.
After years of failed efforts, the Legislature sent Gov. Gavin Newsom a measure to tax firearms and ammunition to fund gun violence prevention in California.
Now that electric cars are mainstream, higher-income Californians will no longer qualify for state subsidies, while lower-income buyers could get up to $12,000.
Two Vietnamese-American women face felony charges for illegally importing langsat, a tropical fruit, some of which was badly infested with fruit fly larvae, which pose dangers for California crops.
Fast-food workers in San Jose demonstrated last week against a 2024 statewide referendum to scrap a groundbreaking law allowing business-sector labor contracts that could boost fast-food wages to $22 per hour.
In the past few months, a former employee of the San Jose mayor’s office sued the city for extending deadlines for responding to records requests, while Mendocino County repealed an ordinance that charged as much as $150 per hour to locate, review and redact documents.
The iconic California burger chain known for its not-so-secret menu and cups printed with Bible verses banned its employees in five states from wearing masks at work, except California and Oregon.
The 40-acre piece of land was purchased by Google in 2019 with the goal of growing trees in an environmentally sound way for its future and current campuses.
The bank double-charged overdraft fees, withheld card perks and opened unauthorized accounts, regulators said. It will repay customers more than $80 million.
Nam Le laundered millions of dollars in payroll for Atlas Private Security, owned by Robert Foster, a former San Jose police officer who was sentenced last year to three years in prison for insurance fraud, money laundering, tax evasion and worker exploitation.
