The following is a selection of bills in the California related to employment law. It is not an exhaustive list. Links to bills I am tracking are included. Those links will break in 2010 and I may or may not correct them.

SB 187 – More flexible alternative workweeks. Similar to AB 141. Dead in committee, 2-4 noes.

SB 287 – Extends rest periods and meal breaks. cmte hearing cancelled.

SB 380 – Mean period changes. dead in cmte.

SB 404 – Technical changes to pay stub rules. Dead in cmte.

SB 807  - More flexible meal periods and reduction in penalties. Reverses Murphy v. Kenneth Cole. In l&i cmte, further hearing pending.

AB 141 – More flexible alternative workweeks. In committee, no hearing scheduled.

AB 227 – Consulting unit of DLSE. In committee, further hearing pending.

AB 236 – Extends car wash oversight program. Passed l&e committee Ayes 6-1, rerefered to appropriations cmte.

The following bills were introduced after the budget stalemate:

AB 335 – Identical to AB 1043 that was vetoed last session, this bill would make employment contracts requiring employees to waive application of California law or agree to a non-California forum. Labor & Employment Committee Ayes 5-2, Judiciary Ayes 7-3.  Floor vote pending.

AB 514 – Required break to express milk. Passed l&e 5-2, to appr.

AB 527 - if the Labor Commissioner finds that payroll records submitted for any pay period relating to any claim or complaint brought pursuant to the commissioner’s authority have been
intentionally falsified, all payroll records relating to that claim or complaint must be presumed false and disregarded. not moving in l&i cmte.

AB 793 – Baby Ledbetter Act. Jud. Cmte. Ayes 7-3, to floor vote.

AB 842 – Extends CalWARN to 90 days, etc. l&e pass 4-2, to appr.

AB 849 - Expands CFRA to cover leaves for adult children, siblings, grandparents, grandchildren, domestic parters, and parent-in-law. Passed l&e 5-2, referred to appr. 

AB 943 – Ban on credit use in hiring. Passed l&e cmte Ayes 5-2, Judiciary 7-3, re-referred to appr. cmte. Hearing pending.

Ab 946 – Temp pay rules don’t apply to temp employee assigned over 91 days consecutively. No hearing in l&e

AB 1000 – Reintro of AB 2716. Paid sick leave. Passed l&e 7-3, to appr.

AB 1001 – Would add “familial status” to protected classes. Passed l&e 5-2, passed jud 7-3, to appropriations.

AB 1421 – Would extend compensible time to include voluntary use of employer parking shuttles, extending Morillon v. Royal Packing Co. Passed l&e 5-2, ref’d to appr.

AB 1562 – Can’t terminate employees for five or fewer simultaneous garnishments. Passed l&e, ref’d to appr.