The California Senate and Assembly have agreed upon a two-party budget proposal, and they sent a bill (SB 154) down to the Governor on Monday June 13th. This budget is really just a placeholder to make sure that the legislature meets it is June 15 constitutional deadline and so that the state controller continues to pay lawmakers, while they hash out more specific details with Governor Newsom.
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California has an unimaginable $97 billion state budget surplus. Now is the time to be doing business with the State of California and local government agencies.
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On April 4, 2022, Tom Sheehy, testified before the California State Assembly’s Revenue and Taxation Committee in support of Assembly Bill 2065. The measure, authored by Assembly Member Blanca Rubio, will help California’s businesses to recover from COVID by reinstating the net operating loss (NOL) tax deduction for the 2020 and 2021 tax years.
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Tom Sheehy, Principal and Founder of the Sheehy Strategy Group, recently sat down with GovReport’s Christina Gagnier to discuss California’s massive unemployment insurance (UI) debt and possible solutions.
Read MoreThings are really changing quickly in Sacramento. We have now almost a dozen members of the Legislature who are either retiring immediately or choosing not to run for another term in office.
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If not, now is the time to get started. And if you're already doing business with state and local government, do you want to do more?
Read MoreEverything is changing rapidly in Sacramento. If you are not fully leveraging your digital assets, you may lose you set at the table.
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There is no better way to quickly frame public opinion or push back on legislative issues you care about than utilizing social media platforms and digital advocacy tools.
Read MoreCalifornia’s legislative session has just wrapped up and the Governor’s recall election is now behind us. With the failure of the recall of Governor Newsom now behind us, there is less political turbulence in Sacramento.
Democrats still hold supermajorities in both houses of the Legislature, making it much easier to pass highly progressive majority vote bills in the labor, environmental, and consumer protection areas.
And that means you need to have a solid strategy for navigating California’s political landscape.
SB 1383 leaves (no pun intended) a huge loophole between state and federal family leave laws. Employees can get nearly six months of leave, at great cost to California businesses.
Read MoreThe Legislature claims it’s passing leave bills to help employees. But are they really helping, or actually hurting them? Some businesses are having to eliminate employee benefits in order to fund new leave mandates. Many employees say they’d rather have their original benefits than extra leave.
Read MoreBack in 2020, the California Legislature passed SB 1383—a historic bill that lowered the threshold of businesses who need to provide leave under the California Family Leave Act from those with 50+ employees to only five! This has a huge impact on small businesses.
Read MoreThe California Legislature continues to pile on employee leave mandates on small businesses. Even after the historic expansion of SB 1383, lawmakers are introducing employment leave bill after employment leave bill.
Read MoreThe government has a very difficult time issuing a driver's license or sending an unemployment check. Do we really want to entrust them with our healthcare? A single-payer healthcare system is unimaginable.
Read MoreThe California State Legislature has rejected efforts to pay down even the smallest amount of its unemployment insurance debt. California owes billions and businesses could soon be on the hook.
Read MoreDid you know CA borrowed over $21 billion from the fed government to backfill the unemployment insurance fund during the pandemic? If those funds are not repaid, every employer in the state will face automatic tax increases.
Read MoreAt the start of the pandemic, California’s unemployment insurance fund did its job, softening the blow of job losses suffered by millions of workers—but COVID completely wiped the fund out. In order to provide unemployment benefits after the UI fund was emptied, California borrowed over $21 billion from the federal government. Now, California is faced with a dilemma: pay back the debt or steeply raise taxes on employers.
Read MoreTom Sheehy, founder and principal of the Sheehy Strategy Group, discusses how you can expand your business in the public sector.
Read MorePublic funds are flush, and now is the perfect time for businesses of all sizes to establish a new relationship with state and local governments, or expand an existing one.
Read MoreIs telecommuting our new normal? This practice has been a lifesaver during COVID times, but if it’s here to stay, California needs to adopt some common-sense labor reforms.
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