from its scheduled hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Bills need to pass out of policy committees before the end of the week, so that would normally mean it’s dead for the year. , a Santa Ana Democrat, said he’ll ask for a rules waiver to get the bill a hearing when the Legislature comes back from its summer recess in mid-August.
Holden’s spokesperson Timme Mackie said the bill was pulled “to give the opposition some time to have more dialogue with Assemblymember Holden.” But neither Holden’s office nor Umberg’s would say whether the lawmakers see any ways to compromise with businesses over one ofBill sponsor SEIU says holding the corporations who control the franchise business model liable for labor violations of franchiseesfranchise owners alike say
that’ll destroy their business model, which emphasizes the independence of franchisees in making workplace decisions. A coalition of businesses and restaurants has staged a concerted opposition campaign, spending $150,000 lobbying against it between January and March. Lawmakers are hearing the group’s many fast food franchise owners who have made personal appeals, spokesperson Kathy Fairbanks said.