Tag: Unemployment Insurance
Study Shows Employers Paying Price for Strain on Unemployment Insurance System
California’s vast unemployment insurance system has been under enormous strain since 2020, and employers are paying the price.
A study in consultation with two eminent...
EDD Updates Work Sharing Program Website, Resources
The California Employment Development Department (EDD) has updated its Work Sharing Program website, offering additional resources for employers interested in applying for the program...
Compliance During Emergency Conditions
In Episode 168 of The Workplace podcast, CalChamber employment law expert Matthew Roberts sits down with CalChamber Labor Law Helpline expert Ellen Savage to...
Governor’s Budget Plans for Uncertain Economy
Governor Gavin Newsom presented a balanced budget this week with no new general tax increases. He identified a $22.5 billion “shortfall” between previously expected...
Now Permanent: California’s Streamlined Work Sharing Program Process
Initially a temporary fix to a COVID-19-related economic slowdown, the Employment Development Department’s (EDD) online, streamlined Unemployment Insurance (UI) Work Sharing program process is...
Adopted Budget Includes Targeted Tax Benefits, One-Time Increases
This week the Legislature passed, and the Governor signed a $300 billion state budget that includes a number of targeted tax benefits for businesses,...
Record Budget Surplus Calls for Tripling Down on UI Fund Offset
Californians have traveled a bumpy road to post-pandemic recovery, with healthy employment and wage growth on the one hand, but soaring inflation and cost-of-living...
May Budget Revise Focuses on Use of Record Surplus
The strong economic performance by key California industry sectors and entrepreneurs was reflected last week in the upward revision of the state’s general revenues...
Revenue Windfall Provides Opportunity
California’s mighty work-from-home economic engine continues to create massive value for workers, employers and entrepreneurs — and not incidentally for the state treasury.
The nonpartisan...
Coalition Urges Legislature to Adopt $3B UI Debt Payment Budget Proposal
The California Chamber of Commerce and a broad-based coalition of employer organizations are strongly supporting Governor Gavin Newsom’s budget proposal to help reduce the...
