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The California Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA) is a cabinet-level agency of the government of California.The agency coordinates workforce programs by overseeing seven major departments dealing with benefit administration, enforcement of California labor laws, appellate functions related to employee benefits, workforce development, tax collection, economic development activities.
In California specifically the state Department of Industrial Relations prohibits employers from threatening workers with deportation from the country. [45] For construction employers this is enforced by the department's Labor Enforcement Task Force. [45]
The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) is a department of the government of the state of California which was initially created in 1927. [1] The department is currently part of the Cabinet-level California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, [2] and headquartered at the Elihu M. Harris State Office Building in Oakland.
Lawmakers must pass the measure to prohibit 'slavery in any form' by June 27 to make it on the November ballot.
The data showed there were at least 56 strikes in California from 2012 to 2022, and only two lasted more than two weeks. However, at the time of the report, there were two ongoing strikes that had ...
The California secretary of state assigned proposition numbers to the measures on Wednesday after the Legislature added two more bond proposals to the ballot. Forced labor, same-sex marriage and ...
California does not have a single task force to combat human trafficking, but instead has nine regional task forces. The U.S. Department of Justice awarded grants to create six regional task forces in 2004 and 2005, and in 2009 and 2010, the California Emergency Management Agency used American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant funds to create ...
At least half of the state’s 162,000 farmworkers are undocumented, according to estimates from the federal Department of Labor and research conducted by UC Merced. Many of those workers have ...