Full Coverage: Gov. Brown signs $15 minimum wage bill
Gov. Jerry Brown signed the $15 per hour minimum wage bill at an event in Los Angeles on April 4. The plan will raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next six years, boosting the future paychecks of millions of the state’s workers.
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Question: My teenage son’s job last summer was as a counselor at a day camp sponsored by a local private school.
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott is back, and he is again gunning for California’s businesses.
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Los Angeles was once the epicenter of apparel manufacturing, attracting buyers from across the world to its clothing factories, sample rooms and design studios.
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Early Sunday morning, Jewel Walker gets home from her full-time job as a wheelchair assistant at this city’s airport and sets her alarm clock for 6 a.m.
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When California legislators voted to raise the statewide minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2022, labor activists cheered.
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Anyone unconvinced about a New York-California rivalry had some tough evidence to overcome Monday, as both states moved to enact minimum wage hikes to $15 an hour, the highest in the country, within hours of one another.
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With the stroke of a pen, Andrew Cuomo got a beat on Jerry Brown.
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The California public’s view of the state Legislature has improved remarkably in recent years.
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Security guard Kenneth Lofton was among the workers who benefited last year when this East Bay city hiked its hourly minimum wage to nearly $15 for employees at large companies.
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In a move that puts California at the forefront of efforts to raise wages for low-income workers across the country, the Legislature approved a sweeping plan Thursday to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next six years, boosting the future paychecks of millions of the state’s workers.
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The people who stand to benefit most from minimum wage hikes across California are low-income adults, most of them household breadwinners, according to an analysis by UC Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education.
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California’s restaurants and retail stores would be ground zero for the impact of the proposed statewide $15 minimum wage.
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The ongoing debate over tipping, service charges and the minimum wage for restaurant employees has been a much talked about subject in the Los Angeles dining scene for quite some time now.
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Behind the counter of Tortilleria San Marcos in Boyle Heights, news that lawmakers and unions had arrived at a deal that would boost California’s minimum wage to $15 was greeted with relief, then anxious arithmetic.
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A deal that would raise California’s minimum wage to $15 an hour was met with a mixture of joy and anxiety across the state Sunday.
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Lawmakers and labor unions have struck a tentative deal to raise the statewide minimum wage to $10.50 an hour next year and then gradually to $15, averting a costly political campaign this fall and possibly putting California at the forefront of a national movement.
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Backers of a $15 statewide minimum wage initiative have collected enough signatures to put their proposal on the ballot in November.
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The Santa Monica City Council on Tuesday night approved a minimum wage ordinance that would put it in line with its neighbors in Los Angeles city and county.
