California Nail Salon is fighting Ab 5 Fallout


One puts his right hand on the chin as he thinks of which nail color should get based on a nail display in front of them. In the background you can see a nail technician, giving the same person a pedicure.
A client reviews her color options as the nail technician gives her a pedicure to Nailn’s Nailn in Alamed on April 27, 2018. Photo of Laura A. Oda, News Group Bay Area News

The end of a temporary release from a state law requiring many employers to classify their independent contractors as employees, leads some nail technicians to say that they are directed by a policy that Legislators intend to protect themwrites Calmatters’ Jean QuangS

California has over 6,000 nail establishments, and from 1987 to 2023, the number of licensed manicurists in the state tripled to over 125,000. Instead of being an employee in a salon that wins an hourly salary, almost one third are independent performers with flexible hours and tariffs.

But in 2019,, California accepted Bill 5 of the Assembly 5An extensive law, which imposes further rules for the classification of workers in an attempt to limit unfair labor practices in the economy of the concert. The law took the nail release, which ended this year on January 1st. Since then, some nail technicians have found themselves in a legitimate gray area where the risks to their work violating state rules of labor.

Since other beauty professions, such as hairdressers, have been released from AB 5, owners of salons and some manicurists say that the disposal of the nail industry in California is made up mainly by the women born in Vietnam-the law is discriminatory.

  • Emily MicelsAn independent manicurist at a Newport Beach salon: “I hope the government does not force us to enter something where we have to comply with a salon. I consider myself a nail artist.”

But Lorena Gonzalez, the former San Diego Assembly, who is the author of AB 5 and is now president of the California Labor Federation, said the deputies at that time found that “more complaints specifically about the wrong classification and more findings about the incorrect classification of manicudors than overall cosmetology.”

In 2013, the state -owned labor regulators accused a nail chain in southern California for misclassification of their workers as independent contractors instead of employees, based on how much control he had in the hours and work of manicurists. The state has lost, and the chain is one of several other enterprises that sue the state under the 2019 Act.

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What really happens after the Immigration in the workplace

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Federal immigration authorities face protesters during Ambiance Abceanle’s icy striker in downtown Los Angeles on June 6, 2025. Photo from JW Hendricks for CalMatters

As President Donald Trump’s administration is doing what he describes as the most large deportment campaign in US history, federal officers have announced that deportation of immigrants who have no legal status will protect US jobs.

But What really happens after attacking workplace immigration – Like the one held last month at LA’s clothing factory – does I really deporting immigrants help to raise salaries?

Calm Nickel dura And Jeanne explains that in June, a spokesman for the US Department of Interior Security said that “job application remains a milestone from our efforts to protect … economic stability.” Last year along the Trump campaign trail also inaccurate told a crowd in North Carolina that “any job produced in this country for the past two years has gone to illegal aliens.”

However, studies have found that raids can defuse salaries and do a little for US workers-many of whom rely on services that come from low-water homeless work. Inviations are also inclined to lead to more working turnover, and employers are not more likely to use tools to check immigration during hiring. Loss of workers also shrink the local economy, as a study estimates that mass deportation can cost California Economy $ 275 billionS

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Does the Police Education Bill go too far – or not far enough?

A man in a dark blue police uniform stands in front of people in light blue police uniforms. The photo is taken from the back of the room, above the shoulders of the audience, to show the person in the front from their point of view.
The then chief of San Francisco Police Police, William Scott, appealed to recruits at the San Francisco Police Academy on October 2, 2024. A photo by Jessica Christian, Chronicle of San Francisco through AP

Without opposition votes so far, a bill that would set new education requirements for police officers continues to extract criticism Both the defenders of the reform of criminal justice and some law enforcement groups reported Calmatters. ” Kayla Mihalovich and Adam EchelmanS

The bill will require incoming employees, with some exceptions, to obtain or associate a bachelor’s degree or a police certificate that can be obtained from an accredited college or university. The degrees should not be related to the law enforcement agencies.

Reggie Jones-Sawyer, ex Los Angeles Asamblem Who is the author of the 2020 law for raising some requirements for police education, said the new proposal leaves a large door that allows a person to circumvent the education requirement with previous military or outside state -enforcement experience.

And while many law enforcement agencies support the bill, representatives of some enforcement unions claim that the measure goes too far and will worsen reports across the country police shortage. He said the president of the Sacramento Police Association: the new requirements “would be catastrophic for the staff”.

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Lastly: CA Food Allergies and Car Fees Accounts

A person with long brown hair, wearing a denim jacket and a striped shirt stands next to a decorative metal railing in an outdoor corridor. The background is distinguished by soft lights out of focus and architectural details. The man looks at the camera calmly with a neutral expression.
Kim Nicolls, who was hospitalized in the past because of her food allergies, in Sacramento on June 3, 2025. Photo of Miguel Gutierrez -Jr., Calmatters


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