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Learn about Sacramento's latest anti-entrepreneurship bill
‘Right To Ignore Your Boss’ Bill Could Make Work-Life Balance Worse for Employees
Haney told the Bay Area News Group that “smartphones have blurred the boundaries between work and home life,” and that “workers shouldn’t be punished for not being available 24/7 if they are not being paid for 24 hours of work.” It’s a shockingly simplistic view of how things work in ...
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Read about latest anti-business mandate from Sacramento
In California, You Can Self-Checkout Any Time You Want – For Now
Self-checkout seems to have reached a peak. Some retailers are pulling back on the systems, apparently due to intentional and unintentional thefts, and there are signs that customers have grown weary of scanning their own purchases and waiting in long, slow lines while a single attendant tries to manage the ...
Business & Economics
Read on the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation's latest regulation proposal
Misguided California Regulation Would Hinder Useful Financial Tool
To a hammer, everything is a nail, and so it is with California’s Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI). Don’t let the “innovation” in the agency’s name fool you – far too many of its regulations deter rather than promote innovative solutions as evidenced by the agency’s recent stance ...
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Latest wild idea - a $50 minimum wage
Why Don’t Businesses Just Print Money?
Maybe it’s time to start thinking about requiring newly elected lawmakers to take an economics 101 class before they start their first session. It seems that maybe outside of our woke and crumbling public education system, there’s no other institution where economic illiteracy is more prevalent than in government. Example ...
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New Sac tax could impose huge burden on entrepreneurs
400 Percent Tax Increase on Entrepreneurs Won’t Generate the Millions Sacramento Seeks
California’s reputation as being one of the most difficult and expensive places to own and operate a business and create jobs has been long established. Year after year, California ranks at the bottom in Chief Executive magazine’s listing of the best and worst states for business. Even in a tough ...
Business & Economics
Read the latest on the federal PRO Act
California’s War On Gig Work Is About To Devastate The Rest Of The Country
Like wreckage following a tornado, California’s effort to eliminate gig work trailed Julie Su as she failed upward from the state’s Labor and Workforce Development Agency secretary to Washington, where she’s the acting labor secretary. In her previous capacity, Su was a hardline supporter of California’s Assembly Bill 5, which ...
Business & Economics
Higher minimum wages hurt workers
If only someone had warned lawmakers
Starting on April 1, fast food restaurant chains that have at least 60 locations across the country must pay their workers a minimum of $20 an hour to comply with the minimum wage increase legislation passed and signed last year. But that’s not the end of it. Under Assembly Bill ...
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Who are winners and losers of 2023 legislative session?
Progressives Dominate Legislative Session, But Will Newsom Spoil the Party?
Late Thursday evening, the Legislature wrapped up its business for the 2023 legislative session. As bleary-eyed lawmakers travel home today for the fall recess, what is the biggest story of this year’s legislative session? This year’s legislative session will go down as perhaps the most successful legislative session ever for ...
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Read about latest job killer bill
Lawmakers Push Yet Another Drain on California Employers Stretched to the Breaking Point
If California policymakers set out to punish and in some cases eventually destroy small businesses, they would add to employers’ already heavy burden by nearly doubling the number of paid sick days they have to provide. Which is exactly what they are doing. Senate Bill 616, passed on Sept. 1 ...
Business & Economics
Watch Wayne Winegarden Discuss Legal Reform Study on Nasdaq Trade Talks
Watch PRI’s Dr. Wayne Winegarden discuss his latest study, “Enriching Lawyers, Not Helping Victims” on Nasdaq Trade Talks. To download a copy of the study, click here.
Learn about Sacramento's latest anti-entrepreneurship bill
‘Right To Ignore Your Boss’ Bill Could Make Work-Life Balance Worse for Employees
Haney told the Bay Area News Group that “smartphones have blurred the boundaries between work and home life,” and that “workers shouldn’t be punished for not being available 24/7 if they are not being paid for 24 hours of work.” It’s a shockingly simplistic view of how things work in ...
Read about latest anti-business mandate from Sacramento
In California, You Can Self-Checkout Any Time You Want – For Now
Self-checkout seems to have reached a peak. Some retailers are pulling back on the systems, apparently due to intentional and unintentional thefts, and there are signs that customers have grown weary of scanning their own purchases and waiting in long, slow lines while a single attendant tries to manage the ...
Read on the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation's latest regulation proposal
Misguided California Regulation Would Hinder Useful Financial Tool
To a hammer, everything is a nail, and so it is with California’s Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI). Don’t let the “innovation” in the agency’s name fool you – far too many of its regulations deter rather than promote innovative solutions as evidenced by the agency’s recent stance ...
Latest wild idea - a $50 minimum wage
Why Don’t Businesses Just Print Money?
Maybe it’s time to start thinking about requiring newly elected lawmakers to take an economics 101 class before they start their first session. It seems that maybe outside of our woke and crumbling public education system, there’s no other institution where economic illiteracy is more prevalent than in government. Example ...
New Sac tax could impose huge burden on entrepreneurs
400 Percent Tax Increase on Entrepreneurs Won’t Generate the Millions Sacramento Seeks
California’s reputation as being one of the most difficult and expensive places to own and operate a business and create jobs has been long established. Year after year, California ranks at the bottom in Chief Executive magazine’s listing of the best and worst states for business. Even in a tough ...
Read the latest on the federal PRO Act
California’s War On Gig Work Is About To Devastate The Rest Of The Country
Like wreckage following a tornado, California’s effort to eliminate gig work trailed Julie Su as she failed upward from the state’s Labor and Workforce Development Agency secretary to Washington, where she’s the acting labor secretary. In her previous capacity, Su was a hardline supporter of California’s Assembly Bill 5, which ...
Higher minimum wages hurt workers
If only someone had warned lawmakers
Starting on April 1, fast food restaurant chains that have at least 60 locations across the country must pay their workers a minimum of $20 an hour to comply with the minimum wage increase legislation passed and signed last year. But that’s not the end of it. Under Assembly Bill ...
Who are winners and losers of 2023 legislative session?
Progressives Dominate Legislative Session, But Will Newsom Spoil the Party?
Late Thursday evening, the Legislature wrapped up its business for the 2023 legislative session. As bleary-eyed lawmakers travel home today for the fall recess, what is the biggest story of this year’s legislative session? This year’s legislative session will go down as perhaps the most successful legislative session ever for ...
Read about latest job killer bill
Lawmakers Push Yet Another Drain on California Employers Stretched to the Breaking Point
If California policymakers set out to punish and in some cases eventually destroy small businesses, they would add to employers’ already heavy burden by nearly doubling the number of paid sick days they have to provide. Which is exactly what they are doing. Senate Bill 616, passed on Sept. 1 ...
Watch Wayne Winegarden Discuss Legal Reform Study on Nasdaq Trade Talks
Watch PRI’s Dr. Wayne Winegarden discuss his latest study, “Enriching Lawyers, Not Helping Victims” on Nasdaq Trade Talks. To download a copy of the study, click here.
