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The California Chamber of Commerce is the largest, broad-based business advocate to government in California, working at the state and federal levels to influence government actions affecting all California business. As a not-for-profit, we leverage our front-line knowledge of laws and regulations to provide affordable and easy-to-use compliance products and services.| CalChamber Alert
A new research brief from the University of Southern California highlights California’s national leadership in women-owned businesses, finding that the state is home to 1.5 million women-led companies — more than any other state — among other key insights.| CalChamber Alert
Local chamber of commerce executive Rana Ghadban will be joining the California Chamber of Commerce next month as vice president of small business advocacy.| CalChamber Alert
We terminated an employee, and she has filed a claim for unemployment benefits. We want to fight her claim because she was fired for falsifying accounting records, a violation of company policy. Can you please explain the type of “misconduct” that will result in a denial of unemployment benefits?| CalChamber Alert
Given the importance of exports to the California economy, there is understandable concern among California’s internationally focused companies specific to the Trump administration’s on-and-off tariffs and the potential economic blowback that retaliatory tariffs could have from some of our state’s existing trading partners if tariffs do, in the end, go through as originally planned.| CalChamber Alert
In Episode 219 of The Workplace podcast, CalChamber Associate General Counsel Matthew Roberts, Senior Employment Law Counsel Erika Barbara and Employment Law Subject Matter Expert Vanessa Greene tackle what is often referred to as “hard” compliance skills necessary for supervisors to help maintain a liability-free workplace in California.| CalChamber Alert
Responding to concerns about the cost and workability of draft plastic recycling regulations, Governor Gavin Newsom directed CalRecycle to redo the rules and the agency complied earlier this month.| CalChamber Alert
California Governor Gavin Newsom and Sonora, Mexico Governor Alfonso Durazo Montaño witnessed the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on March 17 at a ceremony held at the Stanford Mansion in Sacramento...Before the MOU signing, the California Chamber of Commerce hosted a small luncheon for Governor Durazo, Mexico Consul General Christian Tonatiuh González Jiménez based in Sacramento, and Dr. Francisco Acuña Méndez.| CalChamber Alert
Last week my company (which operates 24 hours a day) had several employees call out sick at the last minute. As a result, we had to require one of our employees to work two consecutive shifts, back-to-back. The employee worked from 4 p.m., Thursday afternoon until 8 a.m., Friday morning. I need to understand what our overtime requirements are in this situation.| CalChamber Alert
