Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Thursday, Sept. 8. I’m Dorany Pineda, the Times’ books reporter, and I’m writing from Los Angeles. When Proposition 64, Cali...

Responding to a letter from U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the Department of Defense (DoD) Office of Inspector General (OIG) announced they will review whistleblower ...

Prisoners making license plates is a popular stereotype, but most of the nation’s 800,000 incarcerated workers hold jobs more similar to those on the outside: They cook and serve food, mop floors...

Whistleblowers share similar accounts of helping investigations but being kept in the dark Lawsuits allege inconsistency, secrecy and capriciousness in SEC decision making Nine years have passe...

Nine years have passed since David Danon began helping SEC investigators build a case against Vanguard, uncovering information about a scheme that led the company to return to its investment fund...

New independent contractor proposal expected any day ‘They don’t need a new regulation to go after the problems’ The Biden administration’s wage arm is following through on its promise to polic...

On August 23, the Washington Post published a story about a whistleblower complaint filed by Peiter Zatko, the former security lead and member of Twitter's executive team responsible for informat...

This week, California took a big bite out of the fast food industry. The US state intends to empower restaurant employees with a new law, which California Governor Gavin Newsom signed on Monday. ...

The Department of Defense’s watchdog told two Republican senators that it will evaluate claims that hundreds of Afghan evacuees were allowed to enter the U.S. despite being on the department’s wa...

On September 5, 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed landmark legislation aimed at further regulating the working conditions and wages of California’s fast- food workers. This bill has imm...