Garden Grove healthcare company ordered to pay $690,000 in back wages
A Garden Grove company that previously was ordered to pay more than $1 million to employees in a federal wage theft probe has again been ordered to pay back its staff hundreds of thousands of dollars....
View ArticleFewer Californians quit their job, but workers are still the boss
Has the California worker lost the nerve to quit and ceded control of the workplace to the boss? Across California, 376,000 workers left their job voluntarily in October. That’s unchanged from...
View ArticleMicrosoft lays off 10,000 as job cuts continue in tech sector
By MATT O’BRIEN | AP Technology Writer Microsoft is cutting 10,000 workers, almost 5% of its workforce, joining other tech companies that have scaled back their pandemic-era expansions. The company...
View ArticleFewer Americans file for jobless benefits last week
By MATT OTT | AP Business Writer WASHINGTON — U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell last week to their lowest level in 16 weeks despite attempts by the Federal Reserve to slow the economy...
View ArticleWalmart expands program seeking to switch store employees to fleet drivers
Looking for a job that could potentially pay up to six figures? Walmart announced this week it’s expanding its Associate-to-Driver training program, which touts a salary as high as $110,000 annually....
View ArticleAmtrak to hold career expo at L.A. Union Station
Amtrak is hiring. The passenger rail service will hold a career expo from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26 at L.A. Union Station as its looks to fill a variety of positions. The company has openings...
View ArticleGoogle cuts 12,000 jobs as layoffs spread across tech sector
By KELVIN CHAN LONDON — Google is laying off 12,000 workers, or about 6% of its workforce, becoming the latest tech company to trim staff as the economic boom that the industry rode during the COVID-19...
View ArticleSpotify will cut about 6% of jobs in latest tech layoffs
By Ashley Carman and Kamaron Leach | Bloomberg Spotify Technology SA is planning to cut about 6% of its employees, or around 600 employees, joining a slew of technology companies from Amazon.com Inc....
View ArticleDOJ sues Google over digital advertising dominance
The Justice Department and eight states sued Google on Tuesday, alleging that its dominance in digital advertising harms competition as well as consumers and advertisers — including the U.S....
View ArticleFast-food workers’ rights bill on hold until 2024 ballot
A bill that would boost wages and promises to improve working conditions for California’s fast-food workers has been put on hold until the November 2024 election when voters will decide its outcome....
View ArticleCalifornia’s surprisingly solid job market
Bosses seem to like hiring in the state they like to hate. And that meant 2022 was a solid year for California’s job seekers. My trusty spreadsheet, filled with 47 years of annual federal jobs data...
View ArticleSouthern California lenders cut 10,000 jobs in pandemic era
The pandemic era’s economic gyrations have not been kind to Southern California’s lending industry. My trusty spreadsheet, filled with state job figures, found 103,900 workers at lending institutions...
View ArticleOrange County hiring spree: 70,300 new jobs in 2022, unemployment falls to 2.5%
Orange County bosses added 70,300 workers last year as the local job market finished 2022 with employment at 101% of pre-pandemic December 2019. My trusty spreadsheet, filled with state employment...
View ArticleRivian cuts 6% of workforce, spares assembly-line workers
By Chester Dawson and Ed Ludlow | Bloomberg Irvine-based Rivian Automotive is reducing its headcount by 6% in a cost-savings measure but sparing assembly line workers at its sole operational plant in...
View ArticleUS filings for jobless aid hit lowest level since April
By MATT OTT | AP Business Writer U.S. applications for jobless aid fell again last week to their lowest level since April, further evidence that the job market has withstood aggressive rate hikes by...
View ArticleRiverside, San Bernardino counties are US job-creation leader
The Inland Empire isn’t just Southern California’s hot spot for new jobs – it was a statewide and national leader in employment creation in the pandemic era. My trusty spreadsheet, filled with state...
View ArticleA surprising burst of US hiring in January: 517,000 jobs
By PAUL WISEMAN | AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON — For nearly a year, the Federal Reserve has been on a mission to cool down the job market to help curb the nation’s worst inflation bout in four...
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Dell to lay off 5% of its workforce
By Brian Fung | CNN Dell plans to lay off roughly 5% of its workforce, the company said in a regulatory filing Monday, in the latest example of tech companies cutting costs in an uncertain economic...
View ArticleSan Jose-based Zoom Video to cut 1,300 jobs, or 15% of global workforce
By Brody Ford | Bloomberg SAN JOSE – Zoom Video Communications Inc. is eliminating 15% of its workers as the service that became ubiquitous during the pandemic adapts to slower growth. The company will...
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Bed Bath & Beyond in Yorba Linda, Santa Ana among latest closures. See the list
By Jordan Valinsky | CNN Business Bed Bath & Beyond has revealed the locations of 149 more stores it’s closing, including two in Orange County and nine overall in California. The new list of...
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