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In a May 8, 2020, interview, NFIB California State Director John Kabateck tells station about NFIB’s lobbying efforts on FPP loans and preventing lawsuit abuse and when small businesses will be reopening.

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced new coronavirus safeguards and protocols for retail stores and workplaces eligible to reopen Friday and in the weeks ahead, marking the beginning of California’s gradual easing of the stay-at-home order and attempt to rekindle a state economy ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Wednesday that will make it easier for essential workers who contract COVID-19 to obtain workers’ compensations benefits in a win for labor unions that called for the change.

Thousands of small businesses in California are on the brink of failure – and desperate for some quick cash from the federal government to stay alive.

“Bring Back Borello!” will never work as a rallying cry, but it might be a timely agenda item for California legislators to seriously consider when the coronavirus coast is clear for them to return to Sacramento.

In the meantime, the April 30 second anniversary of the state Supreme Court’s Dynamex decision and the Assembly Bill 5 it subsequently unleashed should be reviewed with all due dispatch if policymakers are sincerely committed to restarting the state’s economy.

In San Diego’s South Park neighborhood, the doors of small shops are typically thrown open. Dogs strolling past tug their humans into the open doorways, collecting treats from the business owners up and down Fern Street.

Like most local neighborhoods, the shop owners here are the stewards of their streets. They keep the sidewalks clean; the trash cans emptied; the water bowls full for their resident pets. The storefronts, meticulously cared for, are uniquely San Diegan, as chains are rarely welcomed.

Business groups are pressuring Democratic officials in several states to postpone planned minimum-wage increases, arguing that embattled businesses can’t afford to give workers a raise as they face the coronavirus-related economic crisis.

Many Bay Area small businesses, like others nationwide, are still waiting for emergency loans from the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).

With a key coronavirus rescue fund nearly exhausted, negotiations are accelerating in Washington over President Donald Trump’s $250 billion emergency request to help smaller employers

The federal government and California Gov. Gavin Newsom are taking steps to help small business in this time of dire danger, but ultimately it will

Phil Cowan interview with ABC NorCal President and CEO Michelle Daugherty on 3/30/20.

Host Siyamak Khorrami interviews State Director John Kabateck for a half-hour on the issues of importance to California small businesses.