Charges filed last week allege that Dhirendra Prasad, 52 of Mountain House in San Joaquin County, committed federal felonies over more than a decade while employed at Apple.

The San Jose Downtown Association is undertaking a nationwide search to replace longtime executive director Scott Knies, who was promoted to chief executive officer last week. Knies will step down Nov. 1, 2022, after 34 years with the organization, as part of a planned succession anticipated in its August 2020 strategic plan.

People in the 60,000 households near the plant faced significant risks to their health and environment, the EPA said in a press release.

Gov. Gavin Newsom joined President Joe Biden as well as executives from the mineral mining and processing industry to announce both public and private investments in the mining of minerals like lithium and cobalt.

The federal Indictment alleges that the CEO of San Jose firm submitted fraudulent H-1B visa applications and laundered $1 million In fraud proceeds.

The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing lawsuit said Tesla's factory is a racially segregated workplace where Black workers are subjected to racial slurs and discriminated against in job assignments, discipline, pay and promotion.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law this week that requires large employers in California to offer workers up to 80 hours of COVID-related paid sick leave. But there’s a catch: The bill, which the Legislature passed on Feb. 7, doesn’t apply to small employers with 25 or fewer workers.

County Supervisor Joe Simitian said he wants the county to be more transparent and clarify whether violations involving Lehigh Cement Plant facilities require additional regulatory and/or legal action.

The real estate deal by the online retail giant marks its second acquisition in Gilroy and extends its footprint — and jobs potential — deeper into South Santa Clara County.

Assemblymember Ash Kalra, a San Jose Democrat who chairs the Assembly labor and employment committee, said that where labor organizing campaigns have failed in low-wage industries, the government needs to act. 

Away from the constant media frenzy surrounding the Trial of the Decade, jurors in the Holmes trial in San Jose dealt with the disruption to their lives.

Ash Kalra of San Jose leads a group of Democratic legislators that Thursday unveiled a package of bills to create a universal health care program funded by new taxes.

Legislators may work on paid leave policies, employee data protections, farmworker elections, while ballot measure proposals could impact businesses and business groups will raise the issue of California’s unemployment insurance fund debt.

A San Jose jury on Jan. 3 found Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes guilty of four federal charges for defrauding investors, but not guilty of four charges related to defrauding patients.  Holmes, founder and CEO of the now-defunct blood-testing company, had been charged with 11 counts related to lying to investors, doctors and patients.   

The zoning changes will limit the number of single-family homes that can be built across the parts of Coyote Valley that do not fall within the boundaries of the cities of San Jose and Morgan Hill. 

A federal jury had returned 28 convictions of Michael Kail of Los Gatos onfraud and money laundering for payments from tech startups seeking Netflix contracts.