Suhauna Hussain is a business reporter covering California labor and workplace issues for the Los Angeles Times. She joined the paper as a reporting fellow in December 2018. She has previously written for the Tampa Bay Times, the Center for Public Integrity, the East Bay Express and the Chronicle of Higher Education and got her start in journalism at Berkeley’s independent student-run newspaper, the Daily Californian. Hussain was raised in L.A. and graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in political economy.
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California lawmakers, by and large, are a labor-friendly bunch and, as in past years, they passed new workplace protections that take effect this year.
Senate Bill 399 prohibits employers from penalizing an employee for refusing to attend a meeting related to their political or religious views — or how their bosses feel about unions.
A rolling strike of Starbucks baristas began Friday and grows to include about 300 of the coffee giant’s shops across the U.S.
Baristas at hundreds of Starbucks in California and elsewhere in the U.S. plan to strike in the days before Christmas as plans to negotiate a contract stall.
Workers at Amazon fulfillment centers in Palmdale, Industry, Victorville and San Francisco joined a strike led by the Teamsters sweeping several warehouses across the country.
A U.S. Senate committee found Amazon disregarded internal safety recommendations to improve the safety of its warehouse workers.
After four years of the labor-friendly Biden administration, employers and labor groups alike are wary of what lies ahead in Trump’s second term.
Cal/OSHA has ordered Parkwood Landscape Maintenance to pay $276,425 in penalties for violating state heat illness prevention regulations.
Workers seeking to unionize accuse Wells Fargo Bank of firing members of their proposed bargaining unit ahead of a scheduled vote. They still won their election.
Workers struggling with higher expenses called the wage proposal a matter of survival. Business owners warned they would scale back operations or shut down.