Background checks are an important part of any business, and a new year means new laws.
Backgrounds Online has the information you need, and only CFCA can provide it as part of your membership.
For the past 17 years, Backgrounds Online has been the active leader in the background check space; developing solutions to streamline and improve the applicant screening experience while dynamically handling ever-changing compliance and security requirements.
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CFCA partner, In Our Backyard, was in Atlanta for this year's Super Bowl in its annual effort to fight trafficking around one of our nation's largest events.
The Super Bowl is not the cause of sex trafficking, but it has become a catalyst to end it in host cities across America over the last 10 years. Thank you for making the work we did in Atlanta this year possible!
Click below to see the full report.
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Earlier this month, CFCA lost a giant. Terry Andrews was a trailblazer in our industry and in life. Terry founded InterState Oil Company and made it an institution, with Interstate trucks now a ubiquitous sight throughout Northern California. Terry was one of CFCA’s founders and as such, the reason we are here today, fighting on behalf of the industry for which he cared so deeply.
Thank you for everything, Terry.
A huge thank you to those who made it out to celebrate Terry Andrews' life on Friday. Hundreds from our industry and beyond were in attendance to help commemorate his storied life and his numerous contributions to our industry and the community. Thank you so much to the Andrews family for hosting us at this beautiful reception.
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Expanding your business? Opening a new store? What's new with your business?
Share it with CFCA!
We are always looking out for the latest ongoing with our members and we'd love to tell your story. If you have any news about your business you'd like to share with your fellow CFCA members, please don't hesitate to send your stories and pictures to us at james@cfca.energy.
Our industry community isthe cornerstone of what makes our organization special, and your success is our pride.
Since 2006, Corner Capital has been providing specialty advisory services for all refined products and to all constituencies in the Downstream Energy industry including convenience store chains, fuel wholesalers and distributors, lubricant retailers and distributors, propane and heating oil distributors, storage and transportation companies, institutional investors, and lenders.
For more information, please visit www.cornercapitalpartners.com or contact P. A. Weber III (Andy) at aweber@cornercapitalpartners.com, (805) 965-5510.
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The CFCA Memorial Scholarship Fund provides scholarship awards to deserving students attending college or vocational programs at any accredited postsecondary institution. It is publicly supported by generous contributions from CFCA members and their communities.
The CFCA Memorial Scholarship Fund provides financial assistance to help children and employees of CFCA members further their education and professional development.
You can help send a deserving student to college by donating to the Fund. It's easy and every dollar makes a difference.
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The California Community Colleges invests in the state’s economic growth and global competitiveness through industry-specific education, training and services that contribute to a highly skilled and productive workforce. With over a $1 billion in investments in career and technical education and workforce development, the California Community Colleges is providing our state with a strong and well-prepared workforce to help our economy prosper.
Are you interested in learning more about the programs that are important to your industry? You can join as a public supporter of the California Community Colleges Doing What MATTERS for Jobs and the Economy and its Strong Workforce Program. There are many opportunities for your business including:
· Provide work-based learning experiences to give youth exposure to your company.
· Learn more about internship programs specific to your business/industry.
· Provide our faculty information on innovations and technologies important to your industry.
· Help shape and develop curriculum and programs important for your industry.
Attached is the employer engagement form that outlines multiple ways your business can engage with the California Community Colleges Doing What MATTERS for Jobs and the Economy and its Strong Workforce Program. If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact Cristina Guccione at 916-204-6715 or cristina@capitolpa.com.
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NACS has announced a new member benefit that helps the employees of its retailer and supplier member companies pay down student loan debt and save for their future.
Today, seven in 10 people graduating from college have student loan debt, and total student loan debt has climbed to more than $1.5 trillion.1 With Gradifi, NACS members have access to a powerful tool that can help them gain a competitive advantage in the hiring marketplace by helping their employees reduce student loan debt, as well as bolster efforts to recruit and retain top talent. NACS has been offering student loan contributions to its own employees through the Gradifi SLP Plan since May 2018.
“Attracting and retaining high-caliber college graduates is a key part of our strategic growth plan at NACS, as well as for many retailer and suppler member companies,” said Brian Kimmel, senior vice president and chief financial officer at NACS. “A student loan repayment benefit will help our industry become more widely recognized an employer of choice.”
David Chang, CEO of Gradifi added: “Employee benefits that make student loan debt more manageable translate into real advantage in a highly competitive labor market. Gradifi’s solution will help NACS members attract and retain talent by helping their employees reduce the financial burden and emotional stress of student loan debt.”
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We all know that California's government has spent millions developing charging infrastructure for electric vehicles. They are becoming seemingly ubiquitous around the state and they are showing no signs of slowing down.
Yet, one thing stands out... there's hardly ever an EV parked at one. CFCA wants your pictures of this excessive taxpayer waste. We want your pictures of EV charging stations throughout the state that sit empty and unkempt, or better yet, used by non-electric vehicles.
Send them directly to CFCA via email, or you can share them to CFCA's social media channels yourself with the hashtags #EVacuated and #dEVoid.
Let's see who can capture the best image of this taxpayer waste!
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Since its inception, Trinity Consultants has been committed to providing superior professional training in environmental topics. Our annual schedule includes more than 200 courses, offered at locations around the country, on timely topics for environmental professionals such as environmental permitting, emissions quantification and reporting, air dispersion modeling, greenhouse gas emissions reporting and permitting, stack testing, and CEMS management.
In addition to our federally-based regulatory courses, we also offer a large slate of state-specific courses, bringing the added value of information on specific state and local programs and insights gained from our experience working with the local regulatory agencies.
Free CARB Regulatory Training in Your Area!
Do you own, operate, or dispatch heavy-duty diesel trucks in or to California? Then you need to know that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) enforces a set of air pollution regulations affecting all types of heavy-duty diesel vehicles operating in the State. If your vehicles are NOT already compliant, you need to know what to do to be compliant for 2019. And if your vehicles ARE compliant, you still may need to report to remain compliant. This course gives you the information you need about how to comply with CARB diesel regulations and how to report to continue operating legally in 2019 and beyond.
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The move to electric vehicles will make cars significantly more expensive, meaning they may become unaffordable for people on low incomes in the future, the chairman of Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) said in an interview published on Sunday.
The German carmaker is still reeling from a 2015 scandal over cheating on emissions tests and needs to ramp up production of electric vehicles to meet toughened European emmissions-cutting targets.
“We have the clear goal of making electromobility accessible to a broad section of the population, that is to make it affordable,” Hans-Dieter Poetsch told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper.
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On this week’s episode of Convenience Matters, “Skimming, Shimming, Shamming, Etcetera,” host Jeff Lenard talks with Paige Anderson, NACS director of government relations, and Linda Toth, director of standards for Conexxus, about keeping customer data safe at the pump.
Toth explains that skimming is the method by which [criminals] obtain customer card data from the magnetic strip to create a counterfeit card to use either online or in stores. And with EMV compliance just 18 months away, “the window of opportunity for thieves to get this data is closing.”
Anderson and Toth point out that retailers have many options to protect their business from skimming; however, the one action every retailer can take is changing out the universal locks on their fuel dispensers. “Making sure those locks are unique is one basic security requirement…it doesn’t cost much and can be done easily,” said Anderson.
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Amid a mass nationwide truck driver shortage, Walmart has upped the ante by raising driver salaries to $87,500 a year, on average, beginning this February, in a bid to attract the hundreds of workers it needs to fill out its fleet in 2019.
The retail giant hired more than 1,400 new drivers last year, but as roughly two-thirds of the nation's freight is transported by truck and consumer demand for its wares increased last year — same-store sales grew 3 percent during 2018 — the company needs another large batch of fresh drivers to keep it running.
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California adopted a plan to convert all city buses in the state to electric power by 2040, and hopes to beat that deadline by five years.
In terms of cleaning up air quality and improving health, buses can deliver a lot quicker bang for the buck than electric cars. The California Air Resources Board says converting the state's 12,000 buses to electric power will deliver benefits equivalent to converting 4 million cars.
Buses follow prescribed, usually low-speed, urban routes, and the diesels they replace are particularly dirty and inefficient.
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An oil severance tax like those imposed by other oil producing states has been introduced by Sen. Bob Wieckowski, potentially posing some especially tough votes for some of his fellow Democrats.
The proposed 10 percent levy on oil and gas pulled from California land would generate $600 million to $900 million, depending upon oil prices. At least part of that would be passed onto motorists.
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