California officials said they are launching new enforcement actions to protect underage farmworkers, including enhanced coordination among two state agencies charged with inspecting work conditions ...

Enforcement efforts on July 13 resulted in the halting of two farming operations with outdoor workers at sites near Winchester, Calif.. Operations at Rheingans Farms and Greenfield Inc, were shut down ...

Read another story in the series of Capital & Main’s investigation: Child farmworkers exposed to toxic pesticides amid lax enforcement. The summer sun burned through the clouds in California’s Salinas ...

Farmworkers harvest banana peppers at a farm near the town of Helm on July 1, 2025. [Photo: Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local] A new audit from the California State Auditor has revealed ...

In a review of the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health published Thursday, state auditors found understaffing was a primary factor leading inspectors to skip in-person inspections of ...

Cal-OSHA Chief Debra Lee arrives at a Joint Legislative Audit Committee hearing on Wednesday in the Capitol Swing Space. HECTOR AMEZCUA [email protected] Legislators grilled officials with the ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California’s worker safety agency is under-inspecting workplaces after accidents and worker injuries, failing to ...

California’s worker safety agency is under-inspecting workplaces after accidents and worker injuries, failing to enforce labor regulations in a way that “may undermine” them because it does not have ...