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Labor/Employment,
Government

Feb. 25, 2022

Employers’ attorneys nervous about new state workplace bills

“There’s a ton of spot bills. … We could have a ton of significant proposals put into those,” said Benjamin M. Ebbink, who represents employers as a partner with Fisher Phillips in Sacramento.

Lorena Gonzalez will keynote a conference on gig work at McGeorge School of Law Friday morning, rather than where she’s been for most of the past decade — in the Assembly passing bills opposed by business. But employer-side attorneys are nervous anyway, due to a raft of new bills relating to discrimination, work leave, information disclosure and COVID.

“Friday [Feb. 18] was the deadline to introduce bills,” Benjamin M. Ebbink, who represen...

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