Public employees

An employee at Shasta County has won a wrongful termination case he’s been fighting for over a year. The details reveal pressure from county leadership.

But a leader of the state’s top hospital industry group called the research “disconnected from reality and tone deaf.”

The board cited workplace behavior violations in its decision to strip Michelle Bushnell of her chair duties.

The economic impact could be felt most powerfully in the state’s rural counties where a higher share of the workforce is employed by a federal agency.

Social Security and Medicare benefits will keep flowing in a government shutdown, but federal employees will be working without pay and delays likely will occur across many services.

Proponents of remote work for California state employees are celebrating a new state audit that finds having employees work from home could save the state hundreds of millions of dollars in real estate and facilities costs.

‘We cannot ignore the rapid growth of AI in our lives,’ Gov. Tina Kotek said in a statement Friday. The state is working with InnovateUS, a nonprofit organization that has partnered with government agencies to provide no-cost AI training for public sector employees.

The stock market selloff that followed President Trump’s latest tariff announcement underscored the “unprecedented” risk that California pension funds see in a potential trade war.

California is rolling back its more flexible work-from-home policies that began with the pandemic.

The Bonneville Power Administration is bringing back 30 employees it fired last week, according to multiple sources familiar with the agency’s operations.

California is removing degree requirements from jobs, but state leaders differ about the right approach.

Gov. Tina Kotek put an end to a policy of paying state employees for traveling back to Oregon. It hasn't dissuaded people from working from elsewhere.