California state legislature votes to save struggling newspapers

The California legislature threw the state’s newspapers a bone as it delayed for a year the new labor law requiring them to convert contract carriers to employees. Legislators were concerned that if the law were implemented immediately, it would be a death knell for the state’s ethnic media. (Courthouse News Service, August 31, 2020, by Nick Cahill and Martin Macias Jr.)

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