{"id":333323,"date":"2026-05-26T20:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333323\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T20:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:35:07","slug":"state-workers-protest-return-to-office-order-outside-calepa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333323\/","title":{"rendered":"State workers protest return to office order outside CalEPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California state workers rallied in downtown Sacramento Thursday [last week] to push back on Governor Gavin Newsom&#8217;s executive order sending them back to the office four days a week. From our partners at CapRadio, Greg Micek has more.<\/p>\n<p>The rally outside the state Environmental Protection Agency headquarters drew about a hundred members from several public employee unions.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Gavin Newsom has ordered state employees back to offices effective July 1st. He has maintained that onsite work improves collaboration, innovation and accountability.<\/p>\n<p>The order applies to roughly 100 thousand telework-eligible state employees and would require them to spend at least four days a week in the office.<\/p>\n<p>Public employee union SEIU Local 1000 has filed an unfair labor practice charge against the state.<\/p>\n<p>A bill from Assembly Democrat Alex Lee would require agencies to offer telework to the fullest extent possible. It cleared a second committee last week and now heads to the Assembly floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California state workers rallied in downtown Sacramento Thursday [last week] to push back on Governor Gavin Newsom&#8217;s executive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-333323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}