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from the California Chamber of Commerce Alert Newsletter, May 2009

The California Supreme Court has denied review of a workers’ compensation case, thereby helping to solidify the 2004 California Chamber of Commerce-supported workers’ compensation reforms. The Supreme Court’s rejection of the petition for review in effect affirms a California court of appeals ruling that upheld the Legislature’s intent of containing costs through the passage of the CalChamber-supported workers’ compensation reforms in SB 899 (Poochigian; R-Fresno, 2004).

- from Kevin Pedrotti, Legislative Advocate for the Golden SDtate Builders Exchanges

AB 1523 recently passed unanimously by the Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee this afternoon. However this is only a first step.

By Larry Levy, Employee Relations Management

The following information applies only to non-exempt employees and not exempt employees.  Non-exempt employees are your employees who provide your services and products and are compensated by their hours of work.  If they work over eight hours in a day or over forty hours in a week they receive overtime.

May 8, 2009

April 16, 2009 

From Will Kempton, Director Dept. of Transportation, California Department of Transportation