California‘s largest public-sector union negotiated an eleventh-hour deal with Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, securing a one-year delay on his statewide return-to-office mandate that was supposed to start on Tuesday. 

Newsom said earlier this year that all state workers would be forced to return to the office at least four days a week, starting July 1. State employees had only been required to be in the office twice a week.