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Biz Summit 2022 Offers Opportunities to Bid on Contracts

The California Black Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc. (CALBCCF) is offering “game-changing opportunities” for mini micro, micro, and small business proprietors of the state at the Economic Business and Roundtable Statewide Summit 2022.

NAACP Launches ‘COVID. KNOW MORE’

The NAACP has commissioned proprietary research, which will be featured and updated bi-monthly, taking a consistent pulse of Black America’s status and progress as we collectively progress toward full recovery. African Americans surveyed have expressed ongoing concerns about the vaccines, the rise of COVID-19 variants, public adherence to guidelines, jobs availability, safely returning to work and other factors affecting their daily lives. The key learnings from this exclusive polling will serve to fill in the information gaps, and further strengthen our communities as they build back given the expressed need for reliable updates on the factors impacting their daily lives over the coming year.

“Bait and Switch”: Firings Make Some Drivers Regret Yes Vote on Prop 22

The proposition passed with 59 % of the vote. It exempted Uber and Lyft drivers — as well as others who work for other delivery and ride-hail companies – from the state’s controversial employee classification law AB 5. Under that law, which took effect in January 2020, most companies in the state had to switch contractors working for them from freelancers to full-time W-2 employees.

Judge Denies Uber and Lyft Appeal; Companies’ Last Chance on Prop 22 Falls to Voters

The legal push-and-pull over whether ride-hailing company drivers in California will maintain their status as independent contractors or become W-2 employees continued last week. 

On Oct. 22, the First District Court of Appeal in San Francisco upheld the injunction issued against Uber and Lyft last August that those companies’ app-based drivers are employees. 

Black Riders Matter

A court in California just issued a temporary “stay” on restricting rideshare operations in the state over the independent contractor issue. The court ruling should be made permanent while civil rights and business leaders work together to undo the unjust and unfair rideshare regulations that may negatively impact millions of people throughout America.

Community Leaders Call for Investment in Crisis Assistance for Survivors of Crime  

As National Crime Victims’ Rights Week enfolds, legislative and government leaders are taking action to magnify the voices of survivors of violence and crime victims. Commnunity organization leaders as well as Assemblymembers Reggie Jones-Sawyer, Eloise Reyes and Sen. Maria Elena Durazo joined survivors of crime in a virtual town hall discussion on April 21, 2020 about the key role community-based crisis assistance services play in stopping the spread of COVID-19 among California’s most vulnerable communities. The goal for the call was to find ways to build more comprehensive systems to effectively respond to the COVID-19 crisis and the violence it