Inside California’s billion-dollar bet to overhaul unemployment
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The EDD is getting a rebuild from the likes of Salesforce and Amazon as pandemic payment disputes drag on and fraud hits other state benefit systems.
Business & Finance
As more Californians allege on-the-job violations, labor groups say bosses retaliate
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The state’s waitlist for investigations and hearings is growing, and few workers have won their claims.Business & Finance
California’s medical board can’t pay its bills, but doctors resist proposed fixes
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The bill faces a pivotal vote in the State Assembly’s Appropriations Committee this month.business
How California’s ‘hot labor summer’ broke down wealth, class barriers
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It’s too soon to say if the inter-union activity will get employers to bargain.California
Industry groups vie in Sacramento for share of $11 billion in new Medicaid money
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Most of the money is earmarked for higher payments to doctors, hospitals, and other providers but details have yet to be worked out.Business & Finance
Got COVID from a loved one who was at work? Their employer owes you nothing, California court rules
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State supreme court leery of setting unwieldy precedent with workers’ comp payout to a Bay Area woman who sued her husband's employer.Bay Area
Will California’s largest pensions, CalPERS and CalSTRS, divest from fossil fuels?
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Climate activists and some lawmakers say shedding about $15 billion of fossil fuel holdings would reduce oil and gas companies’ political power.business
Renters’ rights: California advocates chip away at landlords’ political influence
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As groups representing landlords and real estate pour millions of dollars into political coffers, tenant groups are celebrating recent victories.Bay Area
California’s COVID unemployment reckoning goes national
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Newly released book details the technical and political failures that plague major civic tech efforts like CA's EDD pandemic response.climate change
California ranchers intentionally violated an emergency water order. Now lawmakers want to triple the fines
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Even if fines had reached $10,000 a day, “I’m not so sure we wouldn’t have done it again,” one rancher says.Business & Finance
