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California Refinery and Chemical Plant Worker Safety Act of 1990 added section 7872 and 7873 to the Labor Code. On September 25, 1992, AB 2601 was signed into law. [20] It protected gays and lesbians against employment discrimination. [21] California was the seventh state to add sexual orientation to laws barring job discrimination. [22]
For most employees, these matters are determined through the collective bargaining process. It is authorized by the California Government Code §19815 through §19999.7 and §3512 through §3524 (otherwise known as the Ralph C. Dills Act), as well as the California Code of Regulations, Title 2, §599.600 through §599.995.
California law and the FEHA also allow for the imposition of punitive damages [9] [10] when a corporate defendant's officers, directors or managing agents engage in harassment, discrimination, or retaliation, or when such persons approve or consciously disregard prohibited conduct by lower-level employees in violation of the rights or safety of the plaintiff or others.
Workers should see larger paychecks starting in January 2024. Most workers’ pay raises will be processed “before the end of the calendar year,” wrote spokesperson Camille Travis in an email.
Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger forced state workers to take as many as three furlough days a month following the Great Recession, reducing their pay by about 15%. The move sparked a multi-year ...
Adding millions of state worker commute miles each week will also worsen road congestion and air pollution, employees argue. But for some state workers who live with disabilities, returning to the ...
The California Civil Rights Department (CRD) (formerly known as the Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH)) is an agency of California state government charged with the protection of residents from employment, housing and public accommodation discrimination, and hate violence. It is the largest state civil rights agency in the United ...
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has proposed cutting $1.5 billion in vacant staff positions across departments. These cuts would reduce salary and benefits costs by about 4%. For comparison ...