Labor, Workers' Rights, and Unions
California amends its labor code nearly every session and enforces it through the Labor Commissioner, Cal/OSHA, and PAGA. Capitol Axis represents unions, worker organizations, and employers, on separate matters and never on both sides of one.
- On the Governor's desk
- 8
- Still moving
- 3
- Vetoed
- 1
From the public record, updated September 18, 2026. See every labor bill.
Services.
Rulemaking
- LWDA's PAGA implementing regulations: comments, hearing testimony, and post-hearing advocacy
- Cal/OSHA Standards Board dockets, including heat illness and workplace violence prevention
Legislation
- Testimony and amendments before the Assembly and Senate labor committees on wage-and-hour, classification, and union-election bills
- Budget trailer bill monitoring for DIR, Cal/OSHA, and DLSE funding
Classification and bargaining
- AB 1340 sectoral bargaining for platform and gig clients, and its interaction with AB 5 and Proposition 22
- PERB proceedings and the AB 288 preemption litigation for clients with bargaining exposure
Enforcement
- Labor Commissioner matters: tip and gratuity citations, wage judgment collection, retaliation
- Multi-tier minimum wage compliance across state, sector, and local rates
Why now.
Heat illness comments close September 21.
The window to shape the final indoor and outdoor rule text, including the removed high-heat exception, is open now.
PAGA regulations are at the last stage.
Comments are closed and the hearing is done. Post-hearing advocacy is the final chance to shape how the 2024 reforms are applied.
AB 288 is being decided in court.
Whether California gets its own backstop labor board turns on the preemption litigation. Union and employer clients both have a stake in the outcome and the successor bill.
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