Apr 04 2008
Employment-related Bills 2008
SB 674 (Dutton) - Incentives for employers who provide health care and other benefits.
SB 737 (Caleron) - Legislature’s intent to clarify meal and rest period law.
SB 940 (Yee) - Temporoary employees must be paid more frequently.
SB 953 (Wyland) - Ministerial changes to alternative workweeks.
SB 1192 (Margett) - Would reverse Murphy. Wage premiums are penalties.
SB 1244 (Alquist) - No retaliation if a family member or co-worker files a wage claim.
SB 1283 (Harman) - Some leniency in final paychecks for outside accounting departments.
SB 1489 (Kuehl) - Ministerial changes to leave laws.
SB 1490 (Padilla) - Independent contractors may request a determination from the EDD regarding their status when hired.
SB 1539 (Calderon) - Interpretation of IWC orders re: meal periods mandatory after 5 hours.
SB 1583 (Corbett) - Advising someone to hire independent contractors makes you jointly liable for the remedies against the principal.
AB 1989 (Swanson) - Expands WARN act to include offshoring.
AB 2075 (Fuentes) - Off-the-clock hours would be equivalent to signing flase wage release.
AB 2134 (Swanson) - Would conform state and federal family leave.
AB 2279 (Leno) - Reverses Ragingwire: no discrimination based on medical marijuana usage.
AB 2421 (Huff) - Investigation and prosecution of complaints of employment of unauthorized workers.
AB 2530 (Duvall) - Would exclude certain transportation employees from meal period orders.
AB 2716 (Ma) - Paid sick leave for everyone.
AB 2719 (Jeffries) - Would exclude employees investigating workers compensation fraud from meal period orders.
AB 2874 (Lieber) - Removes penalty limits for violations of CRA2005.
AB 2879 (Leno) - Labor Commissioner audit triggers.
AB 2888 (La Malfa) - Sex offenders cannot work in certain fields with minors, fines related thereto.
AB 2918 (Lieber) - Would restrict usage of credit information as a condition of employment.
[...] This week, the Legislature moved on all but one of the bills we’re tracking. SB 1192 appears dead. SB 1539 and 1583 passed their senate committe votes. AB 2134, 2279, 2716, and 2879 passed assembly committees. For a list of what these relate to go here. [...]
[...] law practice in California in a meaningful way, only SB 940 passed. (See my original list, here.) The Legislature failed—again—to address the rest/meal period issue. There were a number of [...]