A bill that would raise the state’s minimum wage has made it out of it’s first committee. Assembly Bill 10 was written by Democrat Luis Alejo of Salinas…
The increase would come in increments–from eight dollars an hour to $8.25 next year, $8.75 in 2015, and $9.25 in 2016. Opponents of the measure say a minimum wage increase would hurt business, but Alejo says that’s not true…
The bill passed the Assembly Labor and Employment Committee by a 5-2 party line vote. It now moves to the Appropriations Committee. California has not increased its minimum wage in six years.
Meanwhile, there is bi-partisan support for a bill that would keep businesses from prohibiting their employees from performing C-P-R. The bill stems from an incident in Bakersfield where a nurse at a senior living facility refused to give C-P-R to an 87 year-old woman, saying it was against company policy. That woman died. Assemblyman Rudy Salas, a Democrat from Bakersfield, says this bill will end that policy, and fear of litigation…
The bill moves to the Assembly Judiciary Committee.
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