Business Stability

As the Covid-19 pandemic shakes the global economy and disrupts the way we live, work, and conduct business, leaders are scrambling to manage the immediate fallout. But, as history proves, it’s also necessary to prepare for what’s next.

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Californians have been staying home and saving lives since the start of our statewide stay-at-home order issued on March 19, 2020. These efforts have allowed the state to move forward on our roadmap for modifying the statewide order.

On June 18, 2020, CDPH issued Guidance on the Use of Face Coverings, which broadly requires the use of face coverings in California when in public or common spaces. Complete details, including all requirements and exceptions to these rules, can be found in the guidance.

Throughout the response to the COVID-19 crisis, City, County and State governments have worked together to safeguard the lives and livelihoods of Angelenos and all Californians. Our goal is to help workers and businesses take responsible steps toward resuming work, serving customers and rebuilding our economy.

Gov. Gavin Newsom and California health officials on Monday released guidelines for places of worship to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic, while “strongly” recommending that churches continue to hold services remotely.

Stay Home. Practice Physical Distancing. We are enlisting all Californians to help inform the development of guidance for sectors across our economy. This guidance will provide a framework for how to safely re-open.

Food systems are fundamental to human health and flourishing and constitute one of the major pathways of human impact on the environment.

The center has resources for businesses as well as employees to help during the COVID-19 emergency.

The COVID-19 crisis is unlike any Canada has faced in the last century. It has forced all but the most essential in-person shared services and supports to cease and many workplaces have ceased work altogether.

Forget the notion of a V-shaped recovery. Unemployment leveled off around 16% in May, but a retreat to isolation and the end of some relief funds could lengthen the state’s economic recovery — and deepen inequality.

Opening bars and bringing back football teams have lead to new outbreaks. Communities that evolved around campuses face potentially existential losses in population, jobs and revenue.

In the face of the COVID-19 crisis, the County must strengthen its commitment to sustainability, equity, and resilience in order to create a pathway for investment in a safe, healthy, and inclusive future.

Counties on the County Monitoring List are under active monitoring by the state, and may receive targeted engagement and technical support from CDPH and other agencies and departments including the Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency, the Department of Industrial Relations and the California Department of Food and Agriculture. Counties that do not demonstrate substantial progress at 14 days are candidates for reinstituting community measures.

After a bit of last-minute legislative maneuvering, the list of propositions that California voters will be asked to weigh in on has been — more or less — finalized.

California lawmakers voted Friday to send Gov. Gavin Newsom a $202.1 billion budget that avoids deep cuts, despite a projected $54 billion deficit brought on by the coronavirus, by delaying some payments and using reserves.

Businesses are laying off workers, shutting their doors (some permanently), and struggling to react to the radical destruction that coronavirus (COVID-19) is doing to our society and communities. Most have already sustained massive damage, and we still have yet to see the scope of this global pandemic.

In 2022, people will still ask you as a business leader, “What did you do during the pandemic to serve your community?” If you don’t have a good answer now, it’s not too late to find your purpose as a business in this pandemic and create business/nonprofit partnerships that will last beyond this pandemic crisis.

As authorities consider giving the “all clear” for your business to reopen soon in some modified way, it’s time to plan how you’ll go beyond just opening your doors and re-engaging as a community leader. Invite your key stakeholders—your employees, vendors, customers, and community partners—back to the new normal that reaffirms and amplifies your role as a leader. With these six re-opening tactics for community engagement, you and your organization will come back stronger from the COVID-19 restrictions.

Almost 100 days ago, California Gov. Gavin Newsom tapped Apple’s Tim Cook, Disney’s Bob Iger, former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and scores of other business and labor luminaries to chart the state’s economic recovery.

The public is still waiting for a road map.

Sub-topics: New Revenues Without Raising Taxes; Support for Small Business; Protections for Working Families; Investments in our Green Economy

Currently Senate Republicans are offering a proposal to reduce this weekly $600 supplement to closer to $200. This is better than allowing the $600 benefit to go all the way to zero, but this would still lead to GDP that was lower by 2.5% a year from now, and, would lead to 3.4 million fewer jobs created over the next year.

State lawmakers have just five weeks to come up with solutions to massive pandemic-related problems and prevent Californians of all stripes — tenants, landlords, small-business owners, essential workers — from falling off the edge of a cliff.

Enforcement of coronavirus orders is ramping up across California as the state broke its single-day record for deaths twice this week amid a series of outbreaks in essential workplaces.

Elected officials, union leaders, industry representatives and environmentalists are expressing concern about the hundreds of workers set to lose their jobs at California's fourth-largest refinery in the coming months.

California is monitoring COVID-19 closely in each local community and keeping the public informed. We’re teaming up with counties to fight it with every tool we have: current local data, testing, contact tracing, infection control, emergency supplies, containment measures, and more.

For workers fortunate enough to have been working remotely during the pandemic amid historic layoffs, thoughts about a return to the workplace are not just centered around plexiglass dividers, sanitizer dispensers, and separated workstations.

California has a blueprint for reducing COVID-19 in the state with revised criteria for loosening and tightening restrictions on activities.

The Golden State has no peers when it comes to expanding GDP, raising household income, investing in innovation and a host of other key metrics.

In a modern turbulent economic environment, strengthening the principle of quasi-stability, globalization and competition, corporate social responsibility is becoming a driving force in establishing
market proportions and business development prospects.

Blockchain technology can reduce transaction costs, produce distributed trust, and empower new business models.  In the financial industry, blockchain technology allows for the rise of decentralized financial services and business models.

What is good for a country may not be good for its big businesses, at least recently. More turnover in top businesses correlates with faster per capita gross domestic product, productivity, and capital growth; supporting Schumpeter's theory of “creative destruction”—innovative firms blooming as stagnant ones wither.