Lorena Sofia Gonzalez Fletcher[1][2][3] (born September 16, 1971) is an American union leader and former politician serving as the president of the California Labor Federation since 2022.

Gonzalez successfully sponsored and passed multiple pieces of legislation in California aimed at increasing healthcare access and putting more protections in place for workers.

[4] She introduced Assembly Bill 5, which passed in September 2019 and required many workers to be classified as employees rather than independent contractors, providing them more protections under labor and minimum wage laws.

[21][22] In 2018, Gonzalez sponsored AB 1584, which banned the unusual and possibly unconstitutional San Diego Police Department policy of regularly taking DNA samples from minors without first getting parental permission, a warrant or a conviction, and uploading that information to their database for later reference.

[26] Gonzalez authored bills streamlining the state's voter-registration process,[27] has enabled voters to designate any person of their choosing to return a completed mail ballot to the proper drop-off location or post office.

[28] Other bills introduced by Gonzalez and signed into law in 2014 include AB 1873, which allows San Diego County to fill special election vacancies for Congress and the state Legislature by mail ballot until 2020.

[31] She introduced AB 5, which passed in September 2019 and would require many workers to be reclassified as employees instead of independent contractors, giving them minimum wage protections and benefits such as sick leave.

[5][32][33][6] Among some of the signature pieces of legislation authored by Gonzalez are bills enabling millions of Californians to earn paid sick leave[34] and making hundreds of thousands of California farmworkers eligible for overtime pay.

[35] Gonzalez has also authored legislation designed to close the gender pay gap[36] as well as AB 2053, which adds instructions on abusive conduct (bullying) to workplace sexual harassment training.

[44] In 2017, Gonzalez authored AB 480, which was signed into law and enables certain parents who participate in the state's welfare-to-work program to become eligible for subsidies to afford diapers for their children.

[50] As of 2014, Gonzalez lived in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego with her husband and his children from his previous marriage[51] On August 7, 2021, she announced that she had been diagnosed with stage 0 breast cancer and would maintain her normal duties while seeking aggressive treatment.