It used to be that employers had the luxury of waiting until January 1 to be vigilant for new employment laws and compliant challenges. For the past several years, we have reported on.
It used to be that employers had the luxury of waiting until January 1 to be vigilant for new employment laws and compliance challenges. For the past several years, we have reported on employment and labor laws taking effect mid-year. The trend is increasing, with states and cities passing a multitude of new workplace regulations throughout the calendar year. This year,
it s important that we stand up for living wage ordinances. you were not allowed to testify in front of darrell issa s committee. have we made any progress in this country on women s issues since then? that s been a long two years and of course the republicans deny that there s any kind of agenda against women. well, i think that everyone needs to be very clear that the 2013 elections did not end the attacks on women s reproductive rights and other aspects of gender equality and, in fact, many of those takes are happen income state legislatures across the country there are clearly problematic bills being introduced. we need to be lacking to our state legislatures, where there s terrible damage being done to women s right, to gay rights to a whole host of social justice issues. but on the other hand, possibilities in legislatures like california to rance vance these fights to move the country forward and that s what i m committed to doing in the state senate. when you look at pay
initially oppose the law. well, i think amy s point is right on. there has been an amazing campaign targeting alec by color of change, which has forced a lot of corporate sponsors to pull out of alec, and not just around the stand your ground laws, but alec is now trying to repeal a wave of minimum wage and living wage ordinances across the states. this has been one of the most successful issues for progressives in the last 20 years, is raising wages a to the state and local level. this is now alec s target, is to repeal those efforts, or to at least repeal the authority of cities, to try to raise wages in terms of income and inequality. so i think alec is squarely going to be on the agenda in 2014 in terms of people looking at its influence. and i think the more voters get educated about the fact that there is a centralized, political organization, with lots of money, spreading these laws across the country, i think they might begin to change their opinion about but, where did a