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07/04/2025

Happy 4th of July! Hope everyone stays safe this holiday weekend!

06/03/2025

Are your FEHA rights being violated? Swipe left for steps you can take.

04/16/2025

Under AB 2123 , employees are no longer required to use up to two weeks of accrued vacation time before they start receiving Paid Family Leave benefits under EDD's paid family leave program.

03/31/2025

Wishing you and your loved ones a bleated Happy Eid!

03/24/2025

Governor Gavin Newsome signed AB 1870 into law July 2024. AB 1870 no requires employers to include information about an injured employee's right to counsel and that attorney’s fees may be paid from the injured worker’s award in workers' compensation notices.

03/11/2025

The FEHA is meant to offer employees legal protections from discrimination. The law outlines certain characteristics as "protected classes" which includes:
Race
Color
Religion
Age
Gender identity, gender expression
Sexual orientation
Pregnancy
Marital status
Medical Condition
Military or veteran status
National origin
Ancestry
Disability
Genetic information

FEHA also provides legal protections to employees who:
- Request family care leave
- Request leave for their own serious health condition
- Request Pregnancy Disability Leave
- Experience retaliation for reporting patient abuse

03/07/2025

The Private Attorneys General Act ("PAGA") allows an "aggrieved employee" to sue employers on their own behalf and other current or former employees against employers for violations of California's Labor Code.

AB1034 extends exemptions for construction industry employees working under collective bargaining agreements to January 1, 2038. This bill shields employers from PAGA lawsuits.

03/01/2025

We are ending our series by highlighting Johnnie Lacy, a disability rights organizer in the independent living moment. Lacy became a wheelchair user after contracting polio and becoming paralyzed from the waist down. Her experiences living in the United States as a Black disabled woman informed her organizing and poltics. Prior to organizing within the disability community, Lacy worked in community spaces supporting folks who were economically impacted. On April 5, 1977 a group of disability organizers organized a sit-in in San Francisco as a response to the lack of accessible infrastructure and protections for disabled people. Following this demonstration, which became known as the 504 Sit In, Lacy worked on developing trainings on Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 which aimed to teach disabled people how to apply the law to advocate for their legal right to accommodations. Since then, Lacy continued to center her organizing around disability. She went on to co-found the Center for Independent Living in Berkeley, California which is known as one of the first organizations in the nation that supported disabled people to live independently. Lacy's organizing set the foundation for future disability-focused organizing and policy implementations such as the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990.

02/27/2025

SB 399, also known as the "California Worker Freedom from Employer Intimidation Act" bans captive audience meetings.

A captive audience meeting is a meeting in which the employer requires their employee(s) to attend a meeting where the employer expresses their opinions on unionization.

The act also prohibits employers from retaliating against employees who do not attend captive audience meetings.

02/25/2025

What is California's Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA)?

FEHA is a set of laws that offer protections to employees from their employers. Under FEHA, it is illegal for an employer to discriminate, retaliate, and harass an employee.

Under the law, an employer cannot
- Discriminate an employee based on certain characteristics, whether legitimate or perceived.
- Retaliate against an employee based on their status as a protected individual.
- Engage in offensive and unwanted conduct that is both severe and reoccurring.

Stay tuned for more discussions on who is considered a protected class under the law and what to do if your FEHA rights have been violated.

02/21/2025

This week, we are highlighting labor union organizer Sylvia Woods. Woods's began organizing in the 1930s where she organized a sit-down strike at her first job at Great Western Laundry. All her fellow coworkers were Black women who had years of experience working in laundromats. The employers of laundromat announced they would be hiring a supervisor. Instead of promoting an employee who had experience to the position, they elected to externally hire an inexperienced white women. In response, Sylvia successfully convinced her coworkers to cease all operations to demand their employers to hire internally. In response, the employers retaliated by allowing the police to forcefully remove the women from the laundromat with physical violence.

Sylvia loses her job, but continues working in laundromats and continue organizing laundry workers in Chicago. During World War II she went to work at a war plant where she joined the Bendix Local 330 of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) union. Here she was elected the Financial Secretary Treasure. In 1970 she rallied thousands of activists calling for Angela Davis's release from imprisonment for a murder the FBI falsely accused her of committing. Sylvia founded the Angela Davis Defense Committee and later, the National Alliance Against Political Repression. Sylvia Woods dedicated her life to organizing around improving labor conditions for working class folks and abolition.

Sources:
1. https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/stories/unsung-black-women-heroes-of-the-labor-movement/
2. https://www.blackagendareport.com/interview-talk-sylvia-woods-1974

02/19/2025

Under SB1100, employers cannot require proof of a driver's license in a job posting unless:
1. Driving is reasonable expected to be a part of the job.
2. Alternative methods of transportation are not comparable.

Alternative forms of transportation can be include but are not limited to:
1. Ride-hailing services
2.. Taxis
3. Carpooling
4. Bicycling
5. Walking

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