Month: May 2017

Compared to many others around the country, California has long been a state that enforced wage laws that protected its workers. For example, the California Equal Pay Act prohibits employers from paying lower wages to workers of one gender than the workers of the...

This month, Republicans in the House of Representatives brought up a proposed bill that would permit corporations to stop paying workers overtime by instead substituting compensatory time. House Democrats oppose the bill, claiming that worker protections would be...