- December
- November
- October
- Interagency Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship
- Sacramento Regional Transit District: Employee Relation
- COVID-19: Exposure: Notification
- Unemployment Information: Program Outcomes
- Classified Community College Employees
- Rape of a Spouse
- Settlement and Nondisparagement Agreements
- Barbering and Cosmetology
- Security and Alarm Companies: Training: Use of Force
- Firefighters Procedural Bill of Rights Act
- School Employees: Classified Employees: Layoff Notice
- Public Employment: Unfair Practices: Health Protection
- September
- Warehouse Distribution Centers
- Private Detention Facilities
- Wage Theft: Grand Theft
- Family Rights Act: Parent-in-law: Small Employer
- Employment: Garment Manufacturing
- Labor Commissioner: Enforcement: Lien on Real Property
- Workplace Safety Violations: Egregious Violations
- Minimum Wages: Persons with Disabilities
- Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act: Janitors
- Labor-related Liabilities: Direct Contractor
- August
- July
- June
- May
- April
- March
- February
- January
December
There were no employment and/or labor bills that were enacted that were identified.
November
There were no employment and/or labor bills that were enacted that were identified.
October
Interagency Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship
Bill
Assembly Bill 1273
Summary
Prohibits the Department of Consumer Affairs and its various boards from approving an accrediting program that prohibits earn and learn programs for training in a profession licensed or certified by the board. Prohibits the State Department of Public Health, in the licensing and certification of health professions, from prohibiting earn and learn programs for training of personnel. Requires boards of the Department of Consumer Affairs and Public Health to use standards that authorize such training.
Enacted
10/04/2021
Effective Date
01/01/2022
Topics
Apprenticeships
Sacramento Regional Transit District: Employee Relation
Bill
Senate Bill 598
Summary
Grants Public Employment Relations Board jurisdiction to enforce these labor provisions applicable to the Sacramento Regional Transit District. Requires PERB to perform its duties imposed by the bill consistent with existing regulations, and would authorize PERB to make additional regulations, as specified. Authorizes an exclusive representative to move one or more of its bargaining units to the jurisdiction of PERB to adjudicate complaints of specified labor violations as an unfair labor practice.
Enacted
10/04/2021
Effective Date
01/01/2022
Topics
Collective_bargaining; Government; labor_law
COVID-19: Exposure: Notification
Bill
Assembly Bill 654
Summary
Adds the delivery of renewable natural gas to the list of utilities that the division’s prohibitions are not allowed to materially interrupt. Requires the employer, when giving notice to the local public health agency of a COVID-19 outbreak, to give that notice within 48 hours or one business day, whichever is later. Requires the State Department of Public Health to make workplace industry information received from local public health departments available on its internet website.
Enacted
10/05/2021
Effective Date
10/05/2021
Topics
Covid; Exemption; Exposure; Notice; Reporting_required; Employee; Adult_day_centers; Child_care; Community_care
Unemployment Information: Program Outcomes
Bill
Assembly Bill 753
Summary
Requires the Director of Employment Development to permit the use of specified data to evaluate and report program performance outcomes pertaining to specified Unemployment Insurance Code and Streets and Highways Code provisions concerning workforce training and investment. Requires the Workforce Development Board to evaluate program outcomes, including program participant outcomes for all grant programs administered by the board, regardless of funding source.
Enacted
10/05/2021
Effective Date
01/01/2022
Topics
Unemployment
Classified Community College Employees
Bill
Assembly Bill 275
Summary
Shortens the maximum length of a prescribed period of probation for classified employees of a community college district to 6 months or 130 days of paid service, whichever is longer, except that a full-time peace officer or public safety dispatcher employed by a community college district operating a dispatch center certified by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training would be required to serve a probationary period of not less than one year of paid service from their date of appointment.
Enacted
10/06/2021
Effective Date
01/01/2022
Topics
Probationary; Community_colleges
Rape of a Spouse
Bill
Assembly Bill 1171
Summary
Makes an act of sexual intercourse accomplished with a spouse punishable as rape if the act otherwise meets the definition of rape, except that sexual intercourse with a person who is incapable of giving legal consent because of mental disorder or developmental or physical disability would not be rape if the two people are married.
Enacted
10/07/2021
Effective Date
01/01/2022
Topics
Background_checks; Criminal_history; Notice
Settlement and Nondisparagement Agreements
Bill
Senate Bill 331
Summary
Provides that unlawful acts in the workplace for these purposes include any harassment or discrimination and would instead prohibit an employer from requiring an employee to sign a non disparagement agreement or other document to the extent it has the purpose or effect of denying the employee the right to disclose information about those acts.
Enacted
10/07/2021
Effective Date
01/01/2022
Topics
Non-disclosure; Non-disparagement; Settlements; Discrimination; Harassment; Sex; Sexual_assault; Sexual_harassment
Barbering and Cosmetology
Bill
Senate Bill 803
Summary
Increases the total number of members of the State Board of Barbering and Cosmetology and the Health and Safety Advisory Committee, comprised as specified. Provides a per diem to each board and committee member. Deletes a certain obsolete report requirement. Prohibits the practice of medicine from being performed by, or offered by, a licensee under a certain act without being authorized and licensed to perform that act pursuant to a license obtained in accordance with some other provision of law.
Enacted
10/07/2021
Effective Date
01/01/2022
Topics
Apprenticeships; Barbers; Cosmetologist
Security and Alarm Companies: Training: Use of Force
Bill
Assembly Bill 229
Summary
Requires the course in security officer skills to include training in the exercise of the power to arrest and the appropriate use of force. Requires a security guard registrant to maintain the certificate of completion for a course of training in the exercise of the power to arrest. Requires a licensed private patrol operator to deliver to the Director of Consumer Affairs within 7 days a written report describing the circumstances surrounding the discharge of any firearm or physical altercation.
Enacted
10/08/2021
Effective Date
01/01/2022
Topics
Reporting_requirement; Training; Alarm_companies; Private_investigator; Firearm
Firefighters Procedural Bill of Rights Act
Bill
Senate Bill 206
Summary
Includes in the definition of firefighter a temporary, seasonal firefighter employed by the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Applies the Firefighters Procedural Bill of Rights Act to an employee of the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection who holds a temporary firefighter appointment and has commenced employment in a 2nd consecutive fire season with the department even though the person holding the position does not serve a probationary period. Prohibits termination without right to appeal.
Enacted
10/08/2021
Effective Date
01/01/2022
Topics
Investigations; Discipline; Temporary_employees; Firefighting; Forestry;
School Employees: Classified Employees: Layoff Notice
Bill
Assembly Bill 229
Summary
Revises and recasts provisions relating to the layoff of classified employees of school districts and community college districts to require certain notices and opportunities for a hearing when a permanent classified employee’s services will not be required for the ensuing year due to lack of work or lack of funds. Defines “permanent classified employee” to include both an employee who was permanent at the time the notice or right to a hearing was required and an employee who became permanent after.
Enacted
10/08/2021
Effective Date
01/01/2022
Topics
Hearing_opportunity; Notice; Layoff; Community_colleges; K-12
Public Employment: Unfair Practices: Health Protection
Bill
Assembly Bill 237
Summary
Creates the Public Employee Health Protection Act. Makes it an unfair practice for a covered employer to fail or refuse to maintain or pay for continued health care or other medical coverage for an enrolled employee or their enrolled dependents, for the duration of the enrolled employee’s participation in an authorized strike, at the level and under the conditions that coverage would have been provided if the employee had continued to work in their position for the duration of the strike.
Enacted
10/09/2021
Effective Date
01/01/2022
Topics
Government; Public_employer; Labor_law
September
Warehouse Distribution Centers
Bill
Assembly Bill 701
Summary
Requires specified employers to provide to each employee, defined as a nonexempt employee who works at a warehouse distribution center, upon hire, or within 30 days of the effective date of these provisions, with a written description of each quota to which the employee is subject, including the quantified number of tasks to be performed, or materials to be produced or handled, within the defined time period, and any potential adverse employment action that could result from failure to meet the quota.
Enacted
09/22/2021
Effective Date
01/01/2022
Topics
Notice; Personnel_records; Quotas; Employee; Former_employee; New_employee; Non-exempt_employee
Private Detention Facilities
Bill
Assembly Bill 263
Summary
Requires a private detention facility operator to comply with, and adhere to, all local and state public health orders and occupational safety and health regulations. States that the bill’s provisions are declaratory of existing law.
Enacted
09/24/2021
Effective Date
09/24/2021
Topics
Health; Safety
Wage Theft: Grand Theft
Bill
Assembly Bill 1003
Summary
Makes the intentional theft of wages, including gratuities, in an amount greater than a specified amount, in aggregate, by an employer from one or more employees, punishable as grand theft. Prohibits an act that is punished as grand theft from being punished under any other criminal provision, but would authorize wages, benefits, or other compensation to be recovered as restitution in accordance with existing law provisions. Provides that independent contractors are included within the meaning of employee.
Enacted
09/27/2021
Effective Date
01/01/2022
Topics
Employee; Independent_contract; Wage_claims; Wage_theft; Benefits; Compensation: Tips
Family Rights Act: Parent-in-law: Small Employer
Bill
Assembly Bill 1033
Summary
Includes leave to care for a parent-in-law within the definition of family care and medical leave, and would make other conforming changes. Requires the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, when an employee requests an immediate right to sue alleging a violation of the above-described family care and medical leave provisions by an employer, to notify the employee in writing of the requirement for mediation prior to filing a civil action, if mediation is requested by the employer or employee.
Enacted
09/27/2021
Effective Date
01/01/2022
Topics
Mediation; Notice; In-law; Parent; Small_employer; Family; Medical
Employment: Garment Manufacturing
Bill
Senate Bill 62
Summary
Expands the definition of garment manufacturing to include dyeing, altering a garment’s design, and affixing a label to a garment. Prohibits any employee engaged in the performance of garment manufacturing to be paid by the piece or unit, or by the piece rate, except as specified. Imposes statutory damages of a specified amount per employee against a garment manufacturer or contractor, payable to the employee, for each pay period in which each employee is paid by the piece rate.
Enacted
09/27/2021
Effective Date
01/01/2022
Topics
Wage_claims; Recordkeeping; Garment_manufacturer; Piece_rate; Unit
Labor Commissioner: Enforcement: Lien on Real Property
Bill
Senate Bill 572
Summary
Authorizes the Labor Commissioner to create, as an alternative to a judgment lien, a lien on real property to secure amounts due to the commissioner under any final citation, findings, or decision, as provided. Requires the commissioner to include specified information on the certificate of lien to be recorded on the relevant party’s real property and to issue a certificate of release once the amount due, including any interest and costs, have been paid.
Enacted
09/27/2021
Effective Date
01/01/2022
Topics
Leins; Wage_claims
Workplace Safety Violations: Egregious Violations
Bill
Senate Bill 606
Summary
Creates a rebuttable presumption that a violation committed by an employer that has multiple worksites is enterprise-wide if the employer has a written policy or procedure that violates these provisions, except as specified, or the division has evidence of a pattern or practice of the same violation committed by that employer involving more than one of the employer’s worksites.
Enacted
09/27/2021
Effective Date
01/01/2022
Topics
Egregious_violations; Enterprise_employer; Health; Safety
Minimum Wages: Persons with Disabilities
Bill
Senate Bill 639
Summary
Requires the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to develop a multiyear phaseout plan with stakeholder involvement and to pay any employee with a disability, as defined, by a specified date, no less than the state minimum wage otherwise required. Requires the council to to engage with and seek input from people with developmental disabilities who have experience working for subminimum wage and various stakeholder organizations. Requires the council to post phaseout plan report on its website.
Enacted
09/27/2021
Effective Date
01/01/2022
Topics
Disabled_employee; Rehabilitation_facil; Sheltered_workshops; Equal_pay; Minimum_wage; Subminimum_wage
Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act: Janitors
Bill
Senate Bill 646
Summary
Requires a janitorial contractor who has entered into an agreement as prescribed to share, within 60 days of entering the agreement, specified information about the agreement with the Labor and Workforce Development Agency. Specifies that its provisions do not apply to existing cases filed before the effective date of the bill and does not prevent a janitorial employee from filing certain actions. Authorizes the exception until the collective bargaining agreement expires or until a specified date.
Enacted
09/27/2021
Effective Date
01/01/2022
Topics
Collective_bargainin; Private_attorney_gen; Janitorial_services; labor_law
Labor-related Liabilities: Direct Contractor
Bill
Senate Bill 727
Summary
Requires the Labor Commissioner to notify, as specified, the direct contractor and subcontractor at any tier on a private works project at least 30 days prior to taking certain actions for the failure of a subcontractor on that private works project to pay the specified wage, fringe, or other benefit due to workers.
Enacted
09/27/2021
Effective Date
01/01/2022
Topics
Joint_liability; Wage_claims; Wage_theft; Contractor;
Industry: Subcontractor;
August
Employers: Prohibited Disclosure of Information: Arrest
Bill
Assembly Bill 1480
Summary
Includes persons already employed as nonsworn members of a criminal justice agency, as specified, within the exception to certain prohibitions, so that information regarding arrests or detentions regarding specified crimes about these employees may be disclosed or sought. Authorizes a criminal justice agency to release that information concerning a nonsworn employee of a criminal justice agency, or an applicant for a nonsworn position within a criminal justice agency, to a governmental agency employer.
Enacted
08/31/2021
Effective Date
01/01/2022
Topics
Criminal_history; Criminal_justice; Police
July
Health Care Benefits: Unemployment Insurance: Policies
Bill
Assembly Bill 138
Summary
Repeals certain Public Employees’ Medical and Hospital Care Act provisions and reenacts revised provisions in existing law relating to general powers and responsibilities of the department.
Enacted
07/16/2021
Effective Date
07/16/2021
Topics
Unemployment
June
Community Colleges: Academic Employees
Bill
Assembly Bill 1383
Summary
Relates to involuntary administrative leave related to allegations of misconduct for community college employees. Specifies the period for the employer to complete its investigation of the accused misconduct and initiate disciplinary proceedings against, or reinstate, the academic employee.
Enacted
06/28/2021
Effective Date
01/01/2022
Topics
Investigations; Suspensions; Discipline; Government; Community_colleges;
May
There were no employment and/or labor bills that were enacted that were identified.
April
Employment: Rehiring and Retention: Displaced Workers
Bill
Senate Bill 93
Summary
Requires an employer to offer its laid-off employees specified information about job positions that become available for which the employees are qualified, and to offer positions to those employees based on a preference system. Requires an employer to keep certain records. Requires an employer that declines to recall such employee for certain reasons to provide the employee with certain written notice. Prohibits an employer from taking adverse action against a person for seeking to enforce their rights.
Enacted
04/16/2021
Effective Date
04/16/2021
Topics
Backpay; Civil_penalty; Notice; Former_employee; Layoff; Reinstatement; Retaliation
March
COVID-19: Supplemental Paid Sick Leave
Bill
Senate Bill 95
Summary
Provides for COVID-19 supplemental paid sick leave for covered employees, as defined, who are unable to work or telework due to certain reasons related to COVID-19, including that the employee has been advised by a health care provider to self-quarantine due to concerns related to COVID-19.
Enacted
03/19/2021
Effective Date
03/19/2021
Topics
Firefighting; Food_services; In-home_services; Sick; Rate_of_pay
February
COVID-19 Relief
Bill
Assembly Bill 81
Summary
Prohibits an ordinance, resolution, regulation, or administrative action adopted by a city, county, or city and county from permitting a tenant a period of time that extends beyond a specified date to repay COVID-19 rental debt.
Enacted
02/23/2021
Effective Date
02/23/2021
Topics
Unemployment
January
There were no employment and/or labor bills that were enacted that were identified.
