The legislation was an attempt by Democratic state lawmakers to help striking actors, writers and Southern California hotel workers.
If passed, the bill would have let workers who were on strike for at least two weeks receive unemployment checks from the state. Typically, only workers who lost their job through no fault of their own are eligible for those benefits.reported that the fund the state uses to pay unemployment benefits is already more than $18 billion in debt after it ran out of money and had to borrow from the federal government during the COVID-19 pandemic due to a spike in unemployment.
Following the news of the veto, Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, executive secretary-treasurer of the California Labor Federation,
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