SACRAMENTO – (October 5, 2021) – When struggling small restaurants turned to food delivery apps to keep their businesses afloat during the pandemic, many owners reported actually losing money on their orders.
SACRAMENTO – (October 5, 2021) – Today, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 881 by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) into law, closing a loophole in California law that allowed exported mixed plastic waste shipped overseas to be counted toward our state’s recycling goals – even when it was never recycled.
SACRAMENTO – (September 30, 2021) – Today, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 48 by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) establishing California’s first statewide standards regulating the use of projectile weapons and chemical agents by law enforcement for the purposes of crowd control.
SACRAMENTO – (September 28, 2021) – Today, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed Assembly Bill 123 by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), which would have increased the amount of income California workers would receive while using the state’s Paid Family Leave program to bond with a newborn, or care for a sick loved one.
SACRAMENTO – (September 27, 2021) – Too often, employers who commit wage theft face little or no consequences for their actions. Today, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez’s Assembly Bill 1003 to specify that the intentional theft of wages or tips by employers is punishable as grand theft.
SACRAMENTO – (September 23, 2021) – Today, Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation extending the deadline to October 1st for high school students to change letter grades received during the 2020-2021 to “Pass” or “No Pass” – a new option recently provided to families under Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez’s (D-San Diego) urgency law, Assembly Bill 104.
SACRAMENTO – (September 22, 2021) – Today, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 701 by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) into law, which creates the nation’s first transparency requirements and worker protections against abusive warehouse production quotas.
SACRAMENTO – (September 16, 2021) – Today, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 506 by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) into law, which mandates background checks and child abuse prevention training for all staff and regular volunteers of youth service organizations.
SACRAMENTO – (September 10, 2021) – California’s employee-funded Paid Family Leave program has long been out of reach for most working Californians due to the program’s insufficient income replacement rate.
SACRAMENTO – (September 9, 2021) – The increasing shift by online e-commerce giants like Amazon to provide faster shipping rates has contributed to an alarming increase in warehouse workers' injury rates. Today, Assembly Bill 701 by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) to create