El domingo por la noche, el Gobernador Gavin Newsom firmó un conjunto de proyectos de ley presentado por la Senadora Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Angeles) que brindará mayor protección a las familias trabajadoras de California y al mismo tiempo eliminará barreras para las personas elegibles que buscan reconstruir sus vidas.
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More than 100 essential workers and community supporters joined Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas during a rally today outside of a Los Angeles area Ralphs to urge Governor Gavin Newsom to sign SB 725 into law. Authored by Sen. Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Angeles), the bill would require a grocery establishment that conducts layoffs as a result of a merger or acquisition to provide workers with one-week displaced grocery worker allowance for every year of service.
The State Legislature last night passed a package of bills introduced by Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Angeles) that will better empower and protect workers across California. These transformative bills are now headed to Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk for his signature.
The California State Assembly today passed SB 497 – The Equal Pay and Anti-Retaliation Act, positioning the bill to move forward to the Governor’s desk to sign into law. Authored by Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Angeles), the bill will protect workers who report labor violations from being fired, bullied or harassed.
After participating on the picket lines for the WGA Strikes today, Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Angeles) issued a statement about the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes.
A group of state legislators representing the California Legislative Black Caucus today spoke at a press conference at the State Capitol to express their concern about the recent abrupt departures of a number of Black female Hollywood studio executives overseeing diversity, equity and inclusion departments.
Governor Gavin Newsom today signed SB 150, legislation that requires equity and quality jobs for multi-billion dollar federal infrastructure projects planned for California. Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Angeles), a joint author of the bill, led the effort to include equitable hiring programs in a package of infrastructure bills that will provide career-track job opportunities for California’s working families.
The State Legislature today passed Senate Bill 150 that requires equitable hiring for billions of dollars of federal infrastructure projects headed to California in the coming years. Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Angeles), who was a principle joint-author of SB 150, led the effort to include equity language in the package of infrastructure bills to create quality job opportunities for California’s workers from underserved communities.