More Americans last week applied for jobless benefits than the week before.
The number rose by 16,000 to 744,000 meaning businesses are still cutting jobs.
Labor expert and former state employment chief Michael Bernick tells KNX 1070 News nearly 20 percent of the country's claims come from California.
"Over 75 percent of the new claims are what are known as additional claims. That means they are from people who have been unemployed, been called back to work and then been unemployed again," he says.
He says this shows a high degree of volatility.
Bernick says employment should start to stabilize coming up, especially with the state planning to return to near-normal in mid-June.