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Labor/Employment

May 17, 2012

Business interests target new batch of labor bills

The Chamber of Commerce and plaintiff-side employment lawyers are once again disagreeing over legislation. The chamber released its 2012 list of "job killer" bills, invoking language that can help defeat otherwise popular laws.


By Brian Sumers


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Two words irritate Scot Bernstein more than almost any others: job killer.


Bernstein is co-chair of the California Employment Lawyers Association's legislative committee, a group of plaintiffs' lawyers who advocate in Sacramento for what they consider pro-employee legislation.


But in recent years, his group has increasingly sparred with a powerful opponent - the California Chamber of...

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