At around midnight Sunday, Gov. Jerry Brown pandered to religious extremists and jeopardized the job security of women across California.In his final act of this legislative session, Brown vetoed a bill that would have ensured that a woman can’t be fired because she decided to get pregnant, use contraception or have an abortion.Assembly Bill 569, the Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Act, would have banned workplace discrimination due to a woman’s personal reproductive health choices.
This is back to California and the legislature granting licenses to sue just about any business for any reason.
In this case, gay bars hiring gar workers, lots of lawsuits. Businesses that don;t cater to the LGBTGIF crowd be getting sued all the time for marketing reasons. Brown was correct to veto, it is not the place to be doing this, not in a state where each law is a license to suddenly sue some, now defenseless, business.
The cost of California's lawsuit business
Businesses in California survive by watching potential lawsuits, and avoid them like the plague. The legislature grants the right for some aggrieved class to sue some other identified class. The result is that business has a narrower range of operations, in marketing, production or services, before it runs afoul of some lawsuit. During a downturn, business will simply shut for a while until margins improve enough to cover lawsuit risk.
Real problem, happen in my hometown all the time, mostly real estate restriction, a myriad from the state, old building designation being the worst. Then all the mandates in emergency health care running the costs of emergency rooms way up. labor relations with local government a nightmare of regulation. Handicapped access was a big lawsuit problem for a while. On and on... businesses and local government getting hit with these 'licenses to sue' granted by a fairly ignorant state legislature.
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