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
There were no employment and/or labor bills that were enacted that were identified.
September
Employment Provisions
Bill
Senate Bill 5640 (2023-2024)
Summary
Relates to inventions made by employees; provides that any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign, or offer to assign, any of his or her rights in an invention to his or her employer shall not apply to an invention that the employee developed entirely on his or her own time without using the employer’s equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information.
Enacted
09/15/2023
Effective Date
09/15/2023
Topics
Employer_Obligations: Invention
Employer Requirements for Employee Disclosure
Bill
Assembly Bill 836 (2023-2024)
Summary
Prohibits an employer from requesting or requiring that an employee or applicant for employment disclose any user name, password, or other means for accessing a personal account or service through specified electronic communications devices.
Enacted
09/14/2023
Effective Date
03/12/2023
Topics
Employer_Obligations: Online_privacy; Prohibited_Practices: Retaliation
Wage Theft
Bill
Senate Bill 2832 (2023-2024)
Summary
Adds wage theft to the types of activities included in the crime of larceny; provides that in a prosecution for wage theft, for the purposes of venue, it is permissible to aggregate all nonpayments or underpayments to one person from one person, into one larceny count, even if the nonpayments or underpayments occurred in multiple counties.
Enacted
09/06/2023
Effective Date
09/06/2023
Topics
Claims_and_Penalties: Criminal_action, Wage_claims, Wage_theft
Employee Freedom of Speech and Conscience
Bill
Senate Bill 4982 (2023-2024)
Summary
Protects employee freedom of speech and conscience by prohibiting an employer or its agent, representative or designee from communicating to its employees any information that the employer is required by law to communicate, but only to the extent of such legal requirement and from communicating to its employees any information that is necessary for such employees to perform their job duties.
Enacted
09/06/2023
Effective Date
09/06/2023
Topics
Prohibited_Practices: Political_matters, Refuse_conditions, Religious_matters
August
Human Rights Law Protected Classes
Bill
Assembly Bill 7355 (2023-2024)
Summary
Adds gender identity or expression as a protected class of the Human Rights Law; provides that it shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for an employer to, among other things, refuse to hire or employ or to bar or to discharge from internship an intern or to discriminate against such intern in terms, conditions or privileges of employment as an intern because of the intern’s specified characteristics, including but not limited to their age, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression.
Enacted
08/23/2023
Effective Date
08/23/2023
Topics
Prohibited_Practices: Gender_expression, Gender_identity
July
There were no employment and/or labor bills that were enacted that were identified.
June
Agreements Between State and Employee Organization
Bill
Senate Bill 7576 (2023-2024)
Summary
Implements agreements between the state and an employee organization relating to compensation, benefits and other terms and conditions of employment of certain state officers and employees; makes an appropriation therefor; provides for the salaries of certain state officers and employees excluded from collective negotiating units; makes an appropriation therefor.
Enacted
06/30/2023
Effective Date
04/01/2023, 06/30/2023, 04/01/2025
Topics
Industry: Public_employer
May
There were no employment and/or labor bills that were enacted that were identified.
April
There were no employment and/or labor bills that were enacted that were identified.
March
Death or Serious Physical Injury of An Employee
Bill
Assembly Bill 1322
Summary
Relates to crimes involving the death or serious physical injury of an employee where the corporation acted negligently, recklessly, intentionally, or knowingly; defines the term employee.
Enacted
03/03/2023
Effective Date
03/03/2023
Topics
Workplace_Behavior: Death, Injury, Safety
Clarifications to Warehouse Worker Protection Act
Bill
Assembly Bill 1000
Summary
Provides that the employer must provide the written description of any quota in English and in the language identified by each employee as the primary language of such employee; provides that if a current or former employee believes that they have been disciplined as the result of failing to meet a quota, or that meeting a quota caused a violation of their right to a meal or rest period or use of bathroom facilities, they have the right to request, and the employer shall provide, specified information.
Enacted
03/03/2023
Effective Date
03/03/2023
Topics
Claims_and_Penalties: Rebuttable_presumpt; Employee_obligation: Request; Employer_obligations: Personnel_records, Recordkeeping; Industry: Joint_employers, Warehouses; Prohibited_Practices: Retaliation; Wage_and_Hour: Exempt_status, Quotas, Work_speed
February
There were no employment and/or labor bills that were enacted that were identified.
January
Collective Bargaining Agreements
Bill
Assembly Bill 1003
Summary
Relates to family leave and adoption; requires certain employers to provide certain amounts of family leave to employees who adopt children; requires employers who provide maternity benefits to female employees to offer equivalent benefits to adoptive parents; amends Sections 16-25-11.12, 36-26-35.2, 36-26-36.2.
Enacted
01/27/2023
Effective Date
01/27/2023, 04/01/2023, 04/01/2025
Topics
Public_employer
