SACRAMENTO – (Thursday, April 29, 2021) – Today, Assembly Bill 491 by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) that ensures no California resident is discriminated against based on their income and denied access to areas of a housing development, passed the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee on a 7 to 0 vote.
SACRAMENTO – (Tuesday, April 27, 2021) – Volunteers with youth service organizations often work closely with children, despite not receiving abuse prevention training or being required to report suspected abuse to the authorities.
SACRAMENTO – (Tuesday, April 27, 2021) – Low-wage workers in the fast food industry have long faced issues of wage theft, sexual harassment, health and safety hazards, discrimination, and workplace violence that only worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic.
SACRAMENTO – (Thursday, April 22, 2021) – Challenges facing working Californians, including lack of sufficient paid sick and family leave, lack of job security, dangerous work quotas, and unsafe working conditions have all been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
SACRAMENTO – (Tuesday, April 20, 2021) – Today, the Assembly Public Safety Committee passed on a 6 - 0 vote State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez’s (D-San Diego) Assembly Bill 1003, which increases criminal penalties for predatory employers who intentionally steal their workers’ hard-earned wages by fraudulent or other unlawful means.
SACRAMENTO – (Friday, April 16, 2021) – California’s hospitality workforce has experienced historic levels of unemployment due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with nearly 700,000 jobs lost since February 2020.
SACRAMENTO – (Thursday, April 15, 2021) – Every election season, Californians’ mailboxes are flooded with campaign slate mailers intending to provide voters with information on candidates and ballot mea
SACRAMENTO – (Thursday, April 15, 2021) – Californians who are out of work during the pandemic have experienced a host of issues with the debit cards used to access their unemployment benefits—from fraudulent transactions to frozen accounts and more.
SACRAMENTO – (Thursday, April 15, 2021) – California students have missed out on crucial learning time during the COVID-19 pandemic.