Important News for California Employers

September 27, 2021. Governor Newsom signs 3 new bills into law, thus brining the count to 18 for 2021 so far.

The new bills include:

• SB 62 creates new, nation-leading policies that will end exploitative piece-rate compensation for garment industry workers
• SB 639 prohibits paying workers with disabilities less than the state’s minimum wage
• SB 321 directs Cal/OSHA to create advisory committee to recommend policies to protect domestic workers, provide health and safety guidance

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The following is a complete list for 2021 to date:

• AB 73 Health emergencies: employment safety: agricultural workers: wildfire smoke.
• AB 628 Breaking Barriers to Employment Initiative.
• AB 643 Apprenticeship programs: career fairs.
• AB 1003 Wage theft: grand theft.
• AB 1023 Contractors and subcontractors: records: penalties.
• AB 1033 California Family Rights Act: parent-in-law: small employer family leave mediation: pilot program.
• AB 1506 Worker status: employees and independent contractors: newspaper distributors and carriers.
• SB 62  Employment: garment manufacturing.
• SB 270 Public employment: labor relations: employee information.
• SB 278  Public Employees’ Retirement System: disallowed compensation: benefit adjustments.
• SB 321  Employment safety standards: advisory committee: household domestic services.
• SB 338 Joint and several liability of port drayage motor carrier customers: health and safety violations: prior offenders: liability owed to the state.
• SB 362 Chain community pharmacies: quotas.
• SB 572  Labor Commissioner: enforcement: lien on real property.
• SB 606  Workplace safety: violations of statutes: enterprise-wide violations: egregious violations.
• SB 639  Minimum wages: persons with disabilities.
• SB 646  Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004: janitorial employees.
• SB 727  Labor-related liabilities: direct contractor.​

You can find the full text of these bills at http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov