In 2025, California legislators passed new employment laws that will bring changes to employment contracts, pay data reporting, paid family leave, and other employment-related topics. Employers in ...

The move comes amid similar cuts at Meta and Applied Materials, signaling a broader tech industry shift toward automation and ...

California's jobs market has been struggling, despite the U.S. economy booming, with the state trailing behind the rest of the country for job growth and reporting a higher unemployment rate than the ...

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Why would Gov. Gavin Newsom undercut Tesla sales when the Fremont Tesla factory is a source of good manufacturing jobs in his state? (David Butow / For The Times) In contemporary California, home to ...

California posted another month of anemic job growth in April, keeping the state’s unemployment rate the highest in the country, 5.3%, the government reported Friday. Statewide, employers added a net ...

COMING UP. BUT RIGHT NOW, WE’LL TURN IT BACK OVER TO YOU. ALL RIGHT, THANKS SO MUCH, DIRK. SO OCTOBER’S JOBS REPORT SHOWS A NATIONAL RISE IN MANUFACTURING JOBS, BUT IT’S NOT THE CASE HERE IN ...

Perhaps California Gov. Gavin Newsom thought the $20 minimum wage hike he signed into law last year for most fast-food workers would magically skirt the principles of free-market economics. If so, he ...

Amazon, which announced plans this week to reduce its global corporate workforce by about 14,000 jobs, says it is laying off 760 jobs in Southern California beginning in January as part of a shakeup ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s constant reminders that California’s economy ”leads the nation” as well as being a model for social justice are delusional. To be sure, California has a huge GDP, paced largely by ...