Californians could get a chance to help employers by ending a law that makes it relatively easy to sue over unpaid wages.
A ballot proposal from the California Chamber of Commerce, the California New Car Dealers Association, and others targets an 18-year-old statute that lets workers sue on behalf of state regulators when forced to work through lunch or denied overtime pay. Proponents soon could receive approval to start gathering signatures, with 623,212 valid voter names needed to get on the ballot.
It’s one of several efforts underway to use the 2022 election to either erode the clout of ...
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