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Campaign Launches to Fix Workers’ Comp System

Californians for Fair Workers’ Compensation, a coalition focused on strengthening the state’s workers’ compensation system, this week launched Fix CA Workers’ Comp Now. The new...

Cost Drivers Held in Assembly Appropriations

A number of bills identified by the California Chamber of Commerce as Cost Drivers that would have made the state less affordable for businesses...

Self-Audit Helps Ensure Prompt Correction of Form I-9 Errors

During a self-audit of our Forms I-9, we discovered that one of our employees had filled out the Spanish language Form I-9 instead of...

CalChamber Supports Modernization of African Trade Preference Program

The California Chamber of Commerce is supporting a process recently begun by the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to modernize a trade preference program for...

Dangers in Rewriting California Antitrust Law

Twenty-five professors at California universities are urging legislators to reject a sweeping change to the state’s antitrust law, warning that pending legislation is a...

CalChamber Supports Effort to Prevent Abusive Data Privacy Lawsuits

The California Chamber of Commerce is part of a renewed push to protect small businesses, nonprofits and public agencies from predatory lawsuits based on...

Options to Consider When Regular Payday Falls on Weekend or Holiday

My company has been in business for less than a year, and when we started we decided to go with a bimonthly pay schedule....

100+ Organizations Join Affordable CA Coalition

Support continues to surge for the Building an Affordable California Act (Affordable CA), with more than 100 organizations from across California now backing the...

CalChamber Adds Bills to ‘Cost Cutters’ List

Four legislative proposals that would take aim at the kind of business costs that deepen California’s affordability crisis have been added to CalChamber’s list...

California Overtime Covers Employee Working Temporarily Out of State

We are sending a nonexempt employee to a trade show in a state that does not have daily overtime. Because the employee will be...