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When Elon Musk bizarrely carried a sink into the headquarters in San Francisco and took ownership of Twitter, he immediately began making broad changes in the company’s workforce. Via an email to employees with the subject line “Your Role at Twitter,” he first laid off about 50% of the workforce. Musk has justified the…

Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 1949, which requires California employers to provide five days of unpaid, bereavement leave. AB 1949 applies to private employers with 5 or more employees and public sector employees with at least 30 days of service.

California has added Labor Code section 1193 that prohibits an employer from “tak[ing] or threaten[ing] adverse action against any employee for refusing to report to, or leaving, a workplace or worksite within the affected area because the employee has a reasonable belief that the workplace or worksite is unsafe” in the event of an…