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Getting healthier in worrisome ways." thank you for joining us, tom. the va will now mandate vaccines for its health workers. new york city is ordering its city workers to be vaccinated or get regular testing. california says state workers must get their shot. is this what the rest of the country should be doing? >> im in favor of more vaccine man mandates, particularly in health care settings where people are patient-facing. the va policy is sensibly done, it does take into account due process,...

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State workers who arent vaccinated will be subject to weekly covid-19 testing and a month continue to wear masks. joining me now is california governor gavin newsom. thank you so much for your time. lots of ground to cover here. ill start with your announcement. three out of four eligible californians are partially vaccinated. explain us to the timing of this. what is pushing you to require state employees to show proof of vaccination now and just logistically how does this work? do you have any...

Slower pace. when all these accusations came out, the assembly convened and took both the potential sexual h harassment allegations as well as some questions about how the counting of pandemic deaths was handled. there are some new questions that have been raised about how and why the governor used or may have used state workers to try and produce a book that he handsomely profited from per personally. all of that stuff is moving at a snails pace. and the general expectation is that the assembly...

Diana Rubiano/El Nuevo Siglo Las centrales obreras y el Gobierno nacional tras quince reuniones llegaron a un acuerdo de un  aumento salarial en el marco de la negociación de la Mesa Nacional Estatal, que se realizó en Bogotá. En las reuniones  participaron diferentes organizaciones sindicales con las cuales se llegó al consenso de un incremento en el salario de los funcionarios del Estado y trabajadores oficiales del país  de un punto por encima del IPC Ricardo Vanegas, negociador...

Pandemic. what has it been like to be a public health official in tennessee? >> you know, this is a job that i absolutely love. its work that i love. the people that i work with, i work around people in the tennessee department of health, theyre amazing and they have worked themselves to exhaustion to try to help people of tennessee. but our leadership has been toxic to work under, and morale within the department is poor. there are state workers all over the state who fear for their jobs becaus...

In, suggesting that she was trying to yu usurp parental conl here. she says the anti-vax and the politics against the covid-19 vaccine have become so severe in her state it is a health hazard. listen. >> our leadership has been toxic to work under and morale within the department is poor. there are state workers all over the state who fear for their jobs because they want to do the right thing and the administration is much more interested in politics. what really concerns me is that in order to...

The California Citizens Compensation Commission, which is appointed by the governor, voted 4 to 0 on Tuesday to approve the 4.2% pay hikes for state elected officials.

LAUREL ROSENTHAL CalMatters Facing a trifecta of extraordinary circumstances — the waning COVID-19 pandemic, a looming recall election and an insanely flush state budget — Gov. Gavin Newsom barnstormed the state, dropping good news by the billions. He wants to spend $12 billion to house the homeless, the governor announced in the lobby of a San Diego motel converted into a shelter; $3.4 billion to expand preschool to all 4-year-olds, he said on the playground of an element...

Pregnancy Accommodations Now Available To State Workers, Law Falls Short For Private Unable to load the audio player. playpausemuteunmute Article origination IPBS-RJC A poster advocating for better policies for women from a Hoosier Action statehouse rally during the 2021 legislative session. Justin Hicks/IPB News Gov. Eric Holcomb signed an executive order Tuesday giving pregnant employees in state agencies the right to reasonable workplace accommodations. But he also signed a bill into law tha...