California Governor Vetoes Covid-19 Right-to-Return to Work Law

California workers who were laid off during the pandemic won’t be first in line to get their jobs back once the companies start to rehire after California’s governor vetoed a bill on Wednesday.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) rejected the measure (A.B. 3216) that would have required employers at hotels, event spaces, airport businesses, janitorial service companies, and certain other workplaces to offer newly open jobs first to the employees who lost them as a result of a declared state of emergency.

In his veto message, Newsom said the bill would place a heavy burden on hotels that ...