Nearly a third of Cal/OSHA positions were vacant last year. A new state audit found that caused the agency to skip in-person ...

California labor organizers were outraged on Wednesday after a Supreme Court ruling stripped back the power of PAGA, California’s hallmark worker-protection law.

California’s workplace safety agency has displayed “critical weakness” in its ability to properly conduct inspections and ...

In California, many of the state’s 556,000 fast-food workers have protested what they call a widespread lack of basic health and safety protections. Now, many are advocating for a new law to ...

California's New Worker Safety Law Targets Amazon Warehouse Practices California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 701 on Wednesday. ... which will exacerbate our current supply chain issues, ...

California officials on Tuesday announced $25 million in funding to help community organizations educate workers about their rights and workplace safety. Los Angeles area organizations were ...

The state Supreme Court on Thursday narrowed the ability of government workers in California to claim or enforce rights under state labor laws. In a unanimous ruling, the court said thousands of ...

The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.. The Supreme Court’s 2022 ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill Wednesday establishing first-of-its-kind protections for warehouse workers. The new law, which will impact companies such as Amazon and other major ...

Hotter temperatures caused about 360,000 additional injuries in California between 2001 and 2018, according to a study published this month.

On December 12, 2024, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) announced a first-of-its-kind citation for a willful violation of California’s Heat Illness Prevention ...