BizFed Board opposes City of Industry housing requirements bill, SB 1236
BizFed Board opposes City of Industry housing requirements bill, SB 1236 SB 1236, a bill which wouldlimit to 5 percent the amount of City of Industry housing that can be occupied by city officers,will cut City Council compensation in half, and would also re-zone land from heavy industrial to residential use. This creates unintended consequences […]
LA COUNTY BUSINESS FEDERATION OPPOSES SENATE BILL 1387
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, April 19, 2016 Contact: Tracy Rafter, 818.429.0862 David Englin, 703.505.6045 LA COUNTY BUSINESS FEDERATION OPPOSES SENATE BILL 1387 LOS ANGELES, CA – At its monthly meeting today, the Board of Directors of BizFed, the Los Angeles County Business Federation, voted unanimously to oppose Senate Bill 1387, legislation sponsored by Senate President […]
Betty Yee: Tax Reform is Hard, Start the Conversation Now
By Joel Fox Editor of Fox & Hounds and President of the Small Business Action Committee Monday, April 18th, 2016 Previewing the coming report from her Council of Economic Advisors on Tax Reform, state Controller Betty Yee said California needs comprehensive tax reform that must generate job creation to produce a healthy California economy. Speaking […]
LA County to launch wage enforcement program
The Board of Supervisors introduced an ordinance Tuesday to enforce the county’s minimum wage. The Department of Consumer and Business Affairs will set up the wage enforcement program, designed to stop “wage theft.” Supervisor Hilda Solis has championed enforcement. “We are taking the next step to solve a problem that both employers and employees agree […]
Supervisors move forward with 2 water saving plans
POSTED BY HILLARY JACKSON ON APRIL 5, 2016 The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Photo by John Schreiber. The Board of Supervisors moved forward Tuesday on two plans aimed at increasing local water supplies in a time of sustained drought and pressure from federal regulators. Supervisor Sheila Kuehl authored two motions, one seeking to coordinate […]
LA wonders if it could be next in line after San Francisco’s parental leave expansion
San Francisco is the first city in the U.S. to approve six weeks of fully paid parental leave to employees. The law, passed on Tuesday, will apply to all new parents including mothers, fathers and same sex couples. San Francisco’s law differs from the state’s existing rules for parental leave, which offer 55 percent of […]
Coalition urges changes to CEQA guidelines to protect transit and infrastructure project
BizFed mobilized a broad and diverse coalition of 34 companies and organizations who signed their names and logos to a detailed comment letter urging changes to proposed regulations that would expand the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to interfere with transit and road construction. The Governor’s Office of Planning and Research is considering changes to […]
BizFed leads the call for clean air rules that also create jobs
Early this month, in an important victory for the independence of locally-controlled regulatory boards, the South Coast Air Quality Management District’s Governing Board voted 8-5 against reconsidering its December vote on NOx RECLAIM. The December vote came after 3 years of meetings, workshops and public testimony and was described by SCAQMD as the “largest emission […]
