Position: Wages should be negotiated between employers and employees, not mandated by politicians.
Description: Minimum wage laws destroy entry-level jobs, limit small businesses, and raise the cost of living. When government forces employers to pay inflated wages, they respond by raising prices, pausing hiring, automating, offshoring, or shutting down entirely. This hurts young and inexperienced workers the most, while increasing costs across the community. Repealing minimum wage mandates restores voluntary negotiation, expands opportunities, and allows workers to build experience without government interference.

Position: Mandatory OT/DOT laws inflate labor costs, reduce available hours, and eliminate opportunities for workers. Overtime should be optional for those who want it — and never imposed on those who don’t.
Description: California’s overtime and double-time laws artificially increase a worker’s hourly rate by 150–200% after an arbitrary number of hours. When government forces employers to pay inflated rates, they naturally limit hours to avoid the penalty. Workers lose opportunities, lose income, and are often pushed to find second jobs just to make up the difference—wasting time and money commuting between employers instead of simply working the extra hours they wanted. Mandatory OT/DOT laws restrict your right to work, cap your earning potential, and raise the cost of living for everyone by driving up labor costs. Repealing these mandates and making overtime optional restores freedom, flexibility, and the ability of adults to choose what works best for their own lives.

Position: Abolish business permitting schemes.
Description: People have the natural right to associate, work together, and trade freely. Business permitting schemes force individuals to ask the government for permission before they can operate or participate in the economy. These requirements limit opportunity, slow growth, and make it harder for ordinary people to start or expand a business. Ending business permits restores economic freedom and respects the basic right of people to associate and create value without government interference.

Position: Transition California’s unemployment insurance system from a state-run monopoly to a regulated private insurance market.
Description: California currently administers unemployment insurance through a centralized government agency that has repeatedly failed at fraud prevention, timely payments, and accountability. Treating unemployment insurance as an insurance product—offered competitively by private carriers—would introduce market discipline, improve service quality, reduce administrative waste, and lower employer costs. Competition would incentivize insurers to innovate in claims verification and fraud detection while preserving coverage for displaced workers.

Position: The Employment Development Department should be dissolved.
Description: The EDD has demonstrated systemic incompetence, including improper payments, weak identity verification, and widespread fraud. Maintaining the department perpetuates bureaucratic inefficiency and long-term pension and benefit liabilities. Shutting down the EDD would allow California to reassign essential functions, eliminate redundant bureaucracy, and replace a failed administrative model with a more accountable and efficient system.