Tag: California

A shortened workweek may become the reality for many employees in California. Legislation is now working its way through the state legislature that would make the standard workweek 32 hours for companies with more than 500 workers. There would be no cut in pay, and those who work more would be compensated at a rate of no less than 1.5 times the employee’s regular rate of pay.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the arrest of and felony charges against members of an organized retail theft ring operating throughout California, including Los Angeles, Alameda, Fresno, Kern, Orange, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Ventura counties. The California Department of Justice filed charges against nine defendants following a California Highway Patrol (CHP) investigation that began in 2021. During a search and arrest operation in Los Angeles on Monday, officers arrested five of the targeted suspects and recovered approximately $62,000 in cash and $135,000 of stolen merchandise from major retailers, including Macy’s, Columbia Sportswear, Abercrombie & Fitch, J.C. Penney, and Lululemon. An additional suspect from the operation was charged on Tuesday and remains at large. Three suspects were charged in a separate complaint on Tuesday for allegedly possessing over $17,000 in stolen merchandise.

California Department of Insurance detectives arrested former insurance agent Ceaser Guadalupe Salazar, 36, of La Quinta, on multiple counts of identity theft, grand theft, and embezzlement after he allegedly submitted over 60 fraudulent insurance applications with stolen identities to gain over $20,000 in undeserved commissions.

A law that Gray Davis signed in 2003, five days after voters decided to oust him from the governorship, is the the subject of new political and legal conflicts. On Oct. 12, 2003, five days after California voters decided he should be ousted from the governorship, Gray Davis signed Senate Bill 796 , a valuable gift to the labor unions, attorneys and other groups that supported him during the recall election.

Gov. Gavin Newsom claims progress on settling California’s decades-long conflict over water allocation but it’s a partial deal at best The holy grail of those involved in California’s decades-long political and legal battle over how the state’s water supply should be allocated has been some sort of master agreement.