Lede Story
Job Killer Bills Continue to Advance in Senate
Senate policy committees this week continued to approve California Chamber of Commerce-opposed job killer bills.
The Senate Judiciary Committee passed SB 63 (Jackson; D-Santa Barbara),...
Road Repair/Transportation Investment Plan Unveiled
California Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Allan Zaremberg joined Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. and legislative leaders this week at a State Capitol...
Job Killer Leave Mandate Passes Senate Committee
A leave mandate job killer bill opposed by the California Chamber of Commerce passed a Senate policy committee this week with just one committee...
Budget Item Expands Labor Commissioner Authority
The California Chamber of Commerce and a coalition of employer groups is opposing a budget item that expands the Labor Commissioner’s authority and exposes...
More Shakedown Lawsuits; Housing Affordability Hit
The California Chamber of Commerce this week identified two more job killer bills—one opening new avenues for shakedown lawsuits related to environmental laws, and...
Transportation Needs Long-Term Solution Now
The damage to our roads and bridges from California’s most recent storms merely highlights and underscores the need to invest in our crumbling transportation...
Protecting Workers’ Comp Independent Medical Review
Oral arguments have been set in a workers’ compensation case that deals with the constitutionality of the independent medical reviews (IMR) that were part...
Arbitration Can Benefit Both Parties in a Dispute
The history of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) and numerous U.S. Supreme Court decisions interpreting the act’s broad scope and strength set the stage...
Expanding Opportunity
It’s a timeworn California cliché: an earthquake splits the state from the rest of the country—freeing us from the hidebound thinking of Old America.
Well,...
Governor Urges Listeners: ‘Act as Californians First’
Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. called on Republicans and Democrats to “find more things to do together” in his State of the State Address...
