SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Gov. Gavin Newsom authorized SB 93 as law on April 16, which immediately required big hotel operators, event centers, and similar businesses to offer re-employment to their workers who were laid off due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Employees are eligible if they have been employed cumulatively for six months during 2019, even if some of that time was spent on leave or vacation.
The bill intends for local governments to allow workers greater protection.
Specifically, SB 93 applies to public or private event centers reaching more than 50,000 square feet or 1,000 seats that are typically used for public performances, sporting events, business meetings, and other similar functions. Plus, the bill applies to parking facilities, concessions, retail stores, and restaurants that have to do with the operation of an event center.
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A former Vista wholesale bakery, along with its lender and others, is being cited by the state for failing to pay back wages and related penalties totaling nearly $1.3 million for 189 employees who lost their jobs more than two years ago when the business closed.
The California Labor Commissioner announced this week that it had not only issued citations but also sued a number of entities, including the former Baked in the Sun wholesale bakery, which shuttered in late 2018 after two decades of providing baked goods to coffee houses, hotels, hospitals and schools throughout Southern California. At the time it closed, its customers included Whole Foods Market, Costco Wholesale and Sprouts Farmers Market, according to its website at the time.
RANCHO SAN DIEGO
Literacy First Charter Schools will be able to move forward on its plan to build Liberty Charter High School in rural Rancho San Diego just outside of El Cajon.
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 Wednesday to deny an appeal filed by two groups looking to overturn a decision by the county’s Planning Commission granting the project a major-use permit.
Literacy First, a local charter school organization, has planned for nearly seven years to build a high school on the 7.7-acre piece of property at the corner of Chase Avenue and Jamacha Road. It purchased the land for $4 million. While the high school has 350 students at its current site in Lemon Grove where it has been since 2012, it expects to have a student population of 450 at the new spot. The new school would be closer to three academies for lower-grade students in El Cajon.