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AB 48 |
Lieber |
Minimum Wage
09/29/2005-Vetoed by Governor |
Existing law requires establishment of a minimum wage for all industries of not less than $5.75 per hour on and after March 1, 1998. Under existing law, the Industrial Welfare Commission is authorized to determine minimum wages in accordance with a prescribed procedure that includes the selection of wage boards to consider and make recommendations regarding wage issues. The current minimum wage for all industries is $6.75 per hour. This bill would increase the minimum wage to $7.25 per hour, effective on and after July 1, 2006 , and to $7.75 per hour, effective on and after July 1 , 2007, and would provide for the automatic adjustment of the minimum wage on January 1 of each year thereafter, calculated by multiplying the minimum wage by the previous year's rate of inflation, as specified.
EG NOTES: Oppose |
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AB 82 |
Calderon |
Workers' compensation: private self-insurance groups.
04/27/2005-In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
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Existing law authorizes an employer to secure the payment of workers' compensation by securing from the Director of Industrial Relations a certificate of consent to self-insure either as an individual employer or as one employer in a group of employers upon proof satisfactory to the director of the ability to self-insure and to pay any compensation that may become due to employees. This bill would impose various requirements on private self-insured groups, including requirements with respect to the net worth of the members of these groups, the reporting of financial and other information, security deposits, insurance, membership, and administration. The bill would create the Self-Insured Groups' Security Fund for specified purposes related to the payment of the workers' compensation obligations of private self-insured groups. The bill would require that the assets in this fund be maintained separately from those in the Self-Insurers' Security Fund, and that assessments be levied on private self-insured groups for placement in this fund. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
EG NOTES: Watch (see also SB 178) |
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AB 89 |
Horton, Jerome |
Health care: Employer Coverage: Disclosure
09/09/2005-Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:45 p.m. |
| Existing law provides for various health programs under which qualified low-income persons are provided health care services. These programs include the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Services, and the Healthy Families Program, and the Access for Infants and Mothers Program, which are administered by the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board. This bill would require the department and the board to collaborate to, on or before March 15, 2006 , transmit to the Legislature a report identifying all employers who employ 25 or more persons who are beneficiaries or who support beneficiaries of these programs. The bill would also require the department and the board to make the report available to the public as provided in the bill. |
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AB 169 |
Oropeza |
Gender Pay Equity
09/29/2005-Vetoed by Governor |
Existing law prohibits employers from paying an employee at a wage rate less than the rates paid to employees of the opposite sex in the same establishment for equal work on jobs the performance of which requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are performed under similar working conditions, except where the payment differential is made pursuant to a bona fide factor other than sex. Existing law further imposes penalties on employers who violate this provision, subjecting them to civil action and specifying liquidated damages that may be paid to employees who are paid unfairly in violation of existing law. This bill would increase the damages an aggrieved employee may obtain if successful in bringing a civil action against an employer who has violated existing law to include a specified civil penalty, and would mandate the types of damages employees should recover if successful in bringing a civil action against their employer for willful violations of existing law. This bill contains other related provisions.
EG NOTES: Oppose |
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AB 202 |
Harman |
Arbitration Agreements
07/20/2005-Vetoed by the Governor |
| Under existing law, on petition of a party to an arbitration agreement alleging the existence of a written agreement to arbitrate a controversy and that a party thereto refuses to arbitrate that controversy, the court is required to order the petitioner and the respondent to arbitrate the controversy if it determines that an agreement to arbitrate the controversy exists, unless certain other determinations are made. This bill would provide that filing a petition pursuant to this provision is the exclusive means by which a party to an arbitration agreement may seek to compel arbitration of a controversy or claim asserted in the court that is alleged to be subject to that arbitration agreement , or to defend against an action, proceeding, claim, or cause of action asserted in the court to be subject to that arbitration agreement . |
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AB 227 |
Daucher |
Workers' Compensation: Benefits: Leave from State
02/15/2005-Referred to Com. on INS. |
| Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of his or her employment. Under this system, an employee may be entitled to temporary partial or temporary total disability benefits as well as medical treatment, and the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board has jurisdiction to determine claims for benefits. This bill would require any employee receiving temporary partial or temporary total disability benefits or necessary medical treatment due to a work-related injury or illness to forfeit the right to receive these benefits and medical treatment if the employee leaves the state for a period exceeding 2 weeks without written authorization of the employer. The bill would authorize the reinstatement of the right to receive these benefits and medical treatment upon either the written approval of the employer when the employee returns to the state or a finding of the appeals board. |
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AB 229 |
Tran |
Medical Provider Networks: Notification of Injury
04/27/2005-In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. |
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Existing workers' compensation law requires employers to secure the payment of workers' compensation, including medical treatment, for injuries incurred by their employees that arise out of, or in the course of, employment. This bill would instead require an employer utilizing a network to arrange an initial medical evaluation and begin treatment within one working day after an employee files a claim for workers' compensation with the employer. This bill contains other existing laws.
EG NOTES: Watch |
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AB 385 |
Lieber |
Franchise Tax Board: Collection: Workers' Compensation Claims
04/18/2005 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing cancelled at the request of author |
Existing law requires the Franchise Tax Board to administer the levy and collection of taxes pursuant to the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, and establishes procedures for the collection of delinquent taxes. Existing law requires the Franchise Tax Board to enter into an agreement with the Department of Industrial Relations to transfer that department's responsibility for the collection of delinquent fees, wages, penalties, costs, and interest, as specified. This bill would require the Franchise Tax Board, no later than July 1, 2006, and in consultation with the Department of Industrial Relations, to develop a delinquent fee schedule to be utilized for purposes of imposing a late payment fee on an employer that is delinquent in paying specified penalties. This bill contains other related provisions. |
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AB 391 |
Koretz |
Unemployment Compensation Benefits: Locked-out Workers
09/29/2005-Vetoed by Governor |
Existing law denies unemployment compensation benefits to an individual who is unemployed because of a trade dispute with the individual's employer, and provides that the unemployed individual is not eligible to receive those benefits for the period during which the trade dispute is still in active progress, if the individual's unemployment is due to that dispute. This bill would allow an otherwise eligible locked-out worker, as defined, to receive unemployment compensation benefits, even if the worker is locked out as a result of a trade dispute with the worker's employer. This bill would become operative on and after January 1, 2007. By requiring additional payments from the Unemployment Fund, a continuously appropriated special fund, this bill would make an appropriation.
EG NOTES: Oppose |
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AB 521 |
Runner, Sharon |
Workers' Compensation: Fraud: Grants
08/15/2005-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. |
| Existing workers' compensation law generally requires employers to secure the payment of workers' compensation, including medical treatment, for injuries incurred by their employees that arise out of, or in the course of, employment. This bill would require that a grant to a district attorney under these provisions be awarded on the basis of a single application for a period of three years , however, the grant money would be distributed annually, each of the three years . This bill contains other existing laws. |
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AB 606 |
Levine |
Civil Rights: Sexual Orientation
04/27/2005-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. |
| Existing law provides that all persons within the jurisdiction of this state have the right to be free from any violence, or intimidation by threat of violence, committed against their persons or property because of their race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, political affiliation, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, or position in a labor dispute, or because another person perceives them to have one or more of those characteristics. This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to discourage discrimination and harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered persons (LGBT) and other minority groups. |
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AB 613 |
Mountjoy |
Workers' Compensation: Specific and Cumulative Injuries: Evidence
02/28/2005-Referred to Com. on INS. |
Existing workers' compensation law requires employers to secure the payment of workers' compensation, including medical treatment, for injuries incurred by their employees that arise out of, or in the course of, employment. This bill would require an employee to demonstrate by a preponderance of the evidence that activities of employment were predominant as to all causes of the injury combined in order to establish that a specific or cumulative injury is compensable. This bill contains other existing laws.
EG NOTES: Support |
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AB 640 |
Tran |
Employment: Work Hours
04/20/2005-In committee: Set first hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted.
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Existing law, with certain exceptions, establishes 8 hours as a day's work and a 40-hour workweek, and requires payment of prescribed overtime compensation for additional hours worked. Existing law authorizes the adoption by 2/3 of employees in a work unit of alternative workweek schedules providing for workdays no longer than 10 hours within a 40-hour workweek. This bill would exempt individual , non exempt employees from the alternative workweek, and would permit each individual, non exempt employee to adopt an alternative workweek schedule providing for workdays up to 10 hours per day within a 40-hour workweek, with no fixed workweek without the payment of overtime compensation, provided the employee submits a written request for that schedule to the employer, and the request is approved by the employer . The bill would prohibit an employer from encouraging or otherwise soliciting an employee to submit a request for that alternate schedule, and would exempt workers covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement from the application of that provision.
EG NOTES: Support |
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AB 681 |
Vargas |
Workers' Compensation: Official Medical Fee Schedule
05/25/2005-In committee: Set, second hearing
Hearing canceled at the request of author. |
| Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of his or her employment. This bill would instead provide that for calendar years 2003 to 2010, inclusive, the official medical fee schedule rates for physician services in effect on December 31, 2003, shall remain in effect, but that these rates shall be reduced by 5%. It would also authorize the administrative director to adopt and revise an official medical fee schedule for physician services commencing January 1, 2011, rather than January 1, 2006, and would make other clarifying changes. This bill contains other existing laws. |
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AB 793 |
Benoit |
Unemployment Insurance Taxes: Employment Tax Amnesty Act of 2006
04/20/2005-In committee: Reconsideration granted. |
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Existing law requires employers to make contributions for the unemployment insurance coverage of their employees, and to make specified returns and reports relating to these contributions to the Employment Development Department. Existing law also requires employers to withhold from employee compensation estimated state income taxes and employee contributions for disability insurance coverage, and to make specified returns and reports related to these taxes and contributions to the department. Employers are subject to various penalties for failure to make these contributions or withholding payments and to file these returns and reports. This bill would require the Employment Development Department to develop and administer an amnesty program for a 3 -month period, under which an employer may apply for the waiver of (1) unpaid penalties, and interest owed on those penalties, imposed on or before December 31, 2004, that are owed as a result of the nonpayment or underpayment of these tax liabilities or the failure to file reports, or (2) penalties imposed, or that may be imposed, and taxes required to be withheld, that are owed as a result of the nonreporting or underreporting of these tax liabilities or the failure to file reports for periods that ended on or before December 31, 2004. This bill contains other related provisions.
EG NOTES: Support |
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AB 817 |
Matthews |
Insurance
09/29/2005-Chaptered by the Secretary of State, Chapter Number 395 |
| Existing law provides for the establishment of the California Insurance Guarantee Association, managed by a board of governors, in which each insurer admitted to transact any specified class of insurance in this state is required to participate. Existing law provides that the purpose of the association is to provide each member insurer insolvency insurance. Existing law defines certain terms with respect to these provisions. This bill would expand the definition of "covered claims" to include the obligations of an insolvent insurer to reimburse or indemnify any part of the workers' compensation liability of an self-insured employer, as specified. This bill would also define a "policy of workers' compensation insurance" for purposes of these provisions and would limit coverage of claims made by self-insured employers under a specific excess workers' compensation policy issued after January 1, 2006, based upon the issuing carrier's credit rating, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
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AB 822 |
Benoit |
Employment
05/05/2005-In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. (Refers to 5/4/2005 hearing) |
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Existing law authorizes employers in certain circumstances to deposit an employee's wages or advance on wages in a bank, savings and loan association, or credit union of the employee' s choice. This bill would also authorize an employer to deposit an employee's wages or advance on wages in an industrial bank or a trust company. In addition, this bill would permit an employer to transfer an employee's wages or advance on wages to a card issued by a specified financial institution, if the employee voluntarily authorizes the transfer and the card can be used to access funds at an automated teller machine in California.
EG NOTES: Support |
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AB 871 |
Keene |
Workers' Compensation: Health Care Organizations
06/30/2005-In committee: Set second hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted.
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Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of his or her employment. This bill would conform these provisions to those applicable to employers who have not entered into a contract with a health care organization for the provision of medical services. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
EG NOTES: Watch |
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AB 875 |
Koretz |
Employee Wages and Working Hours: Violators
09/29/2005-Vetoed by Governor |
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Existing law attributes various duties and requires private employers to perform certain activities with regard to employee wages, hours, and working conditions. This bill would require the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, in consultation with the Franchise Tax Board and the Joint Enforcement Strike Force on the Underground Economy, to develop and implement a set of standards that, if met by an employer, would trigger recommendation for an audit or investigation by appropriate state tax authorities of employers in violation of statutes relating to employee wages, hours, and working conditions . After July 1, 2006, this bill would require the Labor Commissioner to take specified actions to facilitate audits and investigations of employers who meet the standards required by this bill. This bill would also state findings and declarations relating to the underground economy.
EG NOTES: Oppose |
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AB 879 |
Torrico |
Employment Law Violations: Remedies
09/29/2005-Vetoed by Governor
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Under existing law, if an employee believes an employer has failed to pay wages required by contract or statute, the employee may either file a civil action against the employer or file a wage claim with the Labor Commissioner seeking administrative relief. Where the administrative remedy is pursued, either party may appeal the decision of the Labor Commissioner to the superior court, for a hearing de novo. This bill would provide that, where an employer fails to file an answer to the administrative complaint , and to attend the administrative hearing , and to seek relief for failing to do so , the superior court would not hear the appeal on a de novo basis, but would review the administrative decision only for an abuse of discretion only , unless the superior court granted relief to the employer from the administrative decision under specified criteria. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
EG NOTES: Oppose |
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AB 985 |
Torrico |
Labor: Military Duty.
09/29/2005-Vetoed by Governor |
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Existing law provides that employers may not discharge or in any manner discriminate against specified employees. This bill, until January 1, 2011, in the case of an employee , whose job is outsourced, as defined, while the employee is taking time off to perform active military duty as a member of the militia of this state , that is not reinstated by the employer upon return from active duty, would require the employer to pay the employee an amount equal to 6-months salary , as provided. This bill would make technical nonsubstantive amendments to existing law. |
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AB 1012 |
Nation |
Overtime Compensation
06/22/2005-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
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Existing law authorizes the Industrial Welfare Commission to establish exemptions from overtime wage requirements for certain employees , including certain employees in the computer software field, as specified . This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions relating to employees in the computer software field, and would require the Department of Industrial Relations , contingent on adequate private funding, to report annually regarding the impact of these provisions on the retention in, and recruitment to, and outsourcing from California of computer consulting jobs , including the impact on the wages, hours, overtime, and working conditions of computer consultants in California . It would further require the department to provide copies a copy of this report to the members each member of the Assembly Committee on Labor and Employment and the Senate Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations . |
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AB 1018 |
Nava |
Workers' Compensation: Medical Care and Benefits
02/23/2005-From printer. May be heard in committee March 25. |
| Existing workers' compensation law generally requires employers to secure the payment of workers' compensation, including medical treatment, for injuries incurred by their employees that arise out of, or in the course of, employment. Existing law contains provisions relating to comprehensive medical evaluations, medical treatment guidelines, and disability benefits. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions. |
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AB 1093 |
Matthews |
Employment: Wages
08/30/2005-Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter No. 149, Statutes of 2005 |
Existing law provides that all wages, with specified exceptions, earned by any person in any employment are due and payable twice during each calendar month on predesignated days, and requires that all wages earned for labor in excess of the normal work period be paid no later than the payday for the next regular payday period. Existing law requires employers to furnish their employees, semimonthly or at the time of each payment of wages, with an itemized statement containing certain information regarding compensation and deductions from payments of wages, and provides that current or former employees of an employer have the right to inspect and copy these records and requires employers to comply with requests to inspect or copy these records within 21 calendar days from the date of the request, or be subject to penalties. This bill would provide that nothing in those laws prohibits an employer that has expressed an employee's rate of pay as an annualized salary equivalent from paying that salary in equalized semimonthly installments, notwithstanding the varying number of days in each semimonthly period. This bill would authorize an employer to furnish the itemized statement in an electronic format, provided the electronic record contains all information required to be in the statement, and provided the employer provides the employee with access to print the electronic record in a confidential setting during normal business hours. This bill would also provide that an employer shall be deemed to be in compliance with that law requiring the itemized written statement if the hours worked in excess of the normal work period are itemized on the statement that accompanies the pay for those hours. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
EG NOTES: Support |
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AB 1119 |
Blakeslee |
Workers' Compensation: Fraud
02/23/2005-From printer. May be heard in committee March 25. |
| Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of his or her employment. This bill would make a technical change to these provisions. This bill contains other existing laws. |
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AB 1124 |
Wyland |
Taxation: Employees
04/27/2005-In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. (Refers to 4/27/2005 hearing)
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| Existing law requires employers to make specified payments and withholdings from wages paid for employment. Existing law requires that those employers' payments and withholdings be paid to the Employment Development Department. Existing law excludes services performed by independent contractors from the definition of employment. This bill would deem an individual not to be an employee of an employer for these purposes if the employer has not treated the person as an employee and the tax returns filed by the employer consistently treat the individual other than as an employee. The bill would also specify the circumstances under which an employer has a reasonable basis for treating an individual other than as an employee, and would extend the period for filing a claim for refund or credit of taxes or unemployment contributions as a result of the enactment of these provisions by one year from the effective date of this bill, if those claims have not already been barred. The bill would require the department to provide an employer with written notice of these provisions at or before the time of any audit inquiry relating to the employment status of any individual who performs services for the employer. The bill would enact other related provisions. |
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AB 1176 |
Tran |
Arbitration
04/05/2005-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. |
| Existing law sets forth limited grounds for vacation of an arbitration award, including the procurement of the award by corruption, fraud, or other undue means. However, with respect to a construction contract with a public agency, the parties may expressly agree in writing that in any arbitration to resolve a dispute relating to the contract, the arbitrator's award shall be supported by law and substantial evidence. If the contract so provides, the court is required to vacate an award that is not supported by law and substantial evidence. This bill would authorize the parties to any contract to expressly agree in writing that in any arbitration to resolve a dispute relating to the contract, the arbitrator's award shall be supported by law and substantial evidence, and would require the court, where the contract so provides, to vacate an award that is not supported by law and substantial evidence. |
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AB 1255 |
Calderon |
Employee Work Hours
02/23/2005-From printer. May be heard in committee March 25. |
| Existing law provides that 8 hours of labor constitutes a day's work and that work in excess of 8 hours in one workday shall be compensated at the rate of no less than 11/2 times the regular rate of pay for an employee. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision. |
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AB 1310 |
Nunez |
Severance Offers
09/29/2005-Vetoed by Governor |
Existing state law provides for the enforcement of contracts generally, but does not specifically regulate offers to compensate an employee in return for the employee's voluntary resignation. This bill would forbid an employer to offer cash or any other thing of value to an employee in return for that employee's voluntary resignation from employment unless the employer provides, at the same time that it extends that offer, to the employee specified disclosures relating to the financial consequences of the resignation and a 21-day period during which the employee may reconsider any decision to accept the offer. Failure to comply would make the employer liable to the aggrieved employee in the amount of $100 per day for the period between the offer and the date that the employer provides the required disclosures and reconsideration opportunity. The bill would provide that its provisions could not be waived by an employee except as part of a settlement in a court or an administrative, grievance, or arbitration proceeding, as specified. The bill would also exempt from its provisions public agencies, as defined , and employers with 500 or fewer employees .
EG NOTES: Oppose |
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AB 1311 |
Committee on Labor and Employment |
Labor Standards: Enforcement Hearings
09/29/2005-Chaptered by the Secretary of State, Chapter Number 405 |
| Existing law authorizes the Labor Commissioner to investigate employee complaints and to provide for a hearing in any action to recover wages, penalties, and other demands for compensation and to determine all matters arising under his or her jurisdiction. Existing law requires that, when one of these hearings is set, a copy of the complaint, together with a notice of time and place of the hearing, shall be served on all parties, personally or by certified mail. Existing law provides that, following an order, decision, or award in one of these hearings, the commissioner shall serve a copy of the decision on the parties personally or by first-class mail. Existing law provides a separate set of rules for valid service of a summons in a civil action, including a rule permitting service by leaving acopy of the summons and complaint at the home or office of the person being served, as specified, and thereafter mailing a copy of the summons and complaint to the person at the place where a copy of the summons and complaint were left. This bill would additionally permit the service of the complaint, notice, or decision relating to one of these labor hearings to be served as provided in the rule permitting service of a summons in a civil action by leaving a copy at the home or office of the person being served, and thereafter mailing a copy to the person at the place where a copy was left. |
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AB 1312 |
Committee on Labor and Employment |
Department of Industrial Relations: Duties
03/10/2005-Referred to Com. on L. & E. |
| Existing law establishes the powers and duties of the Department of Industrial Relations. This bill would require the department to report to the Legislature on at least a quarterly basis the total amount of wages, penalties, and assessments referred to the Franchise Tax Board for collection, the amount collected from each employer, the costs of collection, and the time from referral to collection for each referral leading to a collection in the period since the last report. |
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AB 1400 |
Laird |
Civil Rights Act
09/29/2005-Chaptered by the Secretary of State, Chapter Number 420 |
The Unruh Civil Rights Act generally prohibits business establishments from discriminating on the basis of sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, or medical condition. The Unruh Civil Rights Act provides civil remedies for violations of its provisions. This bill would further prohibit that discrimination on the basis of familial status, marital status, or sexual orientation, and would define related terms. The bill would integrate those definitions into other related provisions, and would provide that the identification of particular bases of discrimination in those provisions are illustrative rather than restrictive. The bill would make specified findings and declarations in that regard.
EG NOTES: Oppose |
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AB 1549 |
Koretz |
Workers' Compensation: Qualified Medical Evaluators and Independent Medical Reviewers
04/27/2005-In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. |
Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of his or her employment. This bill would permit acupuncturists meeting certain requirements to be appointed by the administrative director as qualified medical evaluators, and would permit psychologists, acupuncturists, optometrists, dentists, podiatrists, and chiropractic practitioners licensed by California state law and within the scope of their practice to enter into contracts with the administrative director to be independent medical reviewers. This bill contains other existing laws.
EG NOTES: Oppose |
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AB 1553 |
Evans |
Arbitration
06/22/2005-In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. (Refers to 6/20/2005 hearing)
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| Existing law provides that written agreements to submit controversies to arbitration are valid and enforceable. This bill would provide, if an arbitration agreement requires that arbitration of a controversy be demanded or initiated within a period of time, the commencement of a civil action within that period of time shall toll the applicable time limitations contained in the arbitration agreement with respect to that controversy from the date the civil action is commenced until 30 days after a final determination by the court that the controversy must be arbitrated, or 30 days after the final termination of the civil action, whichever date occurs first. |
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AB 1572 |
Dymally |
Workers' Compensation: Medical Treatment: Qualified Diagnostic Radiologists
05/04/2005-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
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Existing workers' compensation law generally requires employers to secure the payment of workers' compensation, including medical treatment, for injuries incurred by their employees that arise out of, or in the course of, employment. This bill, notwithstanding this provision, would authorize a physician treating a patient who may be suffering from a job-related injury to refer that patient to the qualified diagnostic radiologist, as defined, whom the physician believes can best perform the diagnostic radiological services needed to allow for coverage determination or treatment decisions regarding his or her patient. It would also prohibit any person other than a qualified diagnostic radiologist from billing for diagnostic imaging procedures provided to workers seeking or obtaining care under the workers' compensation system. This bill contains other existing laws. |
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AB 1577 |
Benoit |
Unemployment Insurance Reform
08/30/2005-Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter No. 152, Statutes of 2005 |
| Under existing unemployment insurance law, if a claimant for unemployment compensation left the employer's employ voluntarily and without good cause, or under one of the specified circumstances, benefits paid to the claimant that are based upon wages earned from the employer prior to the date of termination are not charged to the account of the employer, except as specified. This bill would revise the specified circumstances under which the benefits paid to a claimant are not charged to the employer's account, as provided, to include a situation when an employee was denied employment or was terminated by an unspecified licensee or facility that was required by law to deny or terminate employment of that employee based on written notification from the department that the employee had a prior criminal conviction or was determined unsuitable for employment, as provided. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
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AB 1619 |
Klehs |
Workers' Compensation: Alternative Dispute Resolution: Exclusive Bargaining Representatives
05/04/2005-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. |
| Existing workers' compensation law requires employers to secure the payment of workers' compensation, including medical treatment, for injuries incurred by their employees that arise out of, or in the course of, employment. This bill would authorize exclusive bargaining representatives, in their capacity as employers, that are currently parties to these agreements to enter into similar agreements with their employees' recognized or certified exclusive bargaining representative. This bill contains other existing laws. |
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AB 1669 |
Chu |
Employment: Discrimination
09/02/2005-Enrolled and to the Governor at 2 p.m. |
| Under existing provisions of the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, a person filing a complaint for an unlawful practice with the Department of Fair Employment and Housing is required to file the complaint within one year, except that the period for filing may be extended in specified circumstances. This bill would additionally provide that the period for filing a complaint for an unlawful practice may be extended for a period of time not to exceed one year from the date a person allegedly aggrieved by an unlawful practice attains the age of majority. |
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AB 1670 |
Nation |
Health Care Coverage
04/26/2005-In committee: Set first hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted. |
| Existing law establishes various programs, including the Medi-Cal program and the Healthy Families Program, to provide health care benefits to eligible persons. Under existing law, the Healthy Families Program is administered by the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board. This bill would establish a 3 part health care coverage program. The bill would require each resident of the state to obtain minimum health care coverage, as defined, and submit documentation, except as specified, of this coverage with his or her annual income tax return filed with the Franchise Tax Board. The bill would also require the Secretary of the Health and Human Services Agency to work in conjunction with counties to establish a purchasing pool through which an essential benefits package, developed by the board and the Department of Managed Health Care, would be made available. The bill would also require the board and the department to establish a subsidy program for qualified employers, as defined, who offer essential benefits coverage for employees earning less that 200% of the federal poverty level. This bill contains other related provisions. |
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AB 1709 |
Wyland |
Workplace Postings
04/20/2005-In committee: Set first hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted. |
Existing law requires employers to post copies of certain notices, regulations, and laws in the workplace in order to notify employers and employees of their rights and responsibilities. This bill would require that workplace posters and regulations be written in plain language so that employers and employees can easily understand them.
EG NOTES: Support |
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AB 1734 |
Koretz |
Unemployment Insurance: Unemployment Compensation Benefits
09/29/05-Signed by Governor
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Existing law requires employers to provide meal periods to employees during work periods of specified duration. This bill would exempt from the meal period requirement certain employees in the motion picture and broadcasting industries who are covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement that contains specified terms.
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ACR 43 |
Horton, Jerome |
Labor
07/18/2005-Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter No. 81, Statutes of 2005 |
| This measure would declare that the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement does not have the authority to promulgate a specified regulation relating to meal and rest periods, that this authority rests with the Legislature or the Industrial Welfare Commission, and that the specified regulation is inconsistent with existing law. |
