Occupational Safety & Health

The California Department of Managed Health Care helps consumers resolve problems with their health maintenance organizations and ensure a more stable managed health care system. The department's HMO Help Center assists consumers with health care issues. Since the department's inception in 2000, the Help Center has assisted approximately 700,000 Californians to resolve their HMO problems. The department's efforts for a healthier managed health care system include a variety of steps, such as ensuring HMO accountability through prevention and quality of care laws, develop and launch public education and awareness efforts, provide an annual report card on quality of care of the state's HMOs, ensure fiscal accountability for consumer premium dollars and co-payments throughout the HMO system and work to bring managed health care back to its roots of better preventive care. The California Department of Managed Health Care is headquartered in Sacramento, Calif.

The California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) is an independent state agency under the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, dedicated to overseeing labor relations between most public employers and their employees across California. As a quasi-judicial body, PERB administers and enforces collective bargaining laws, promotes fair labor practices, and resolves disputes to maintain stable labor-management relations in the public sector. PERB engages in a variety of functions, including processing unfair practice charges, facilitating mediation, and issuing decisions related to labor disputes. The Board's mission is to ensure compliance with labor laws while fostering a harmonious working environment for public sector employees. Generated from the website