Calif. Workplace Bills Face Final Votes as Legislative Session Nears End
A bill to codify the California's Supreme Court decision in Dynamex remains the major workplace bill that everyone, including employment lawyers, is watching.
September 04, 2019 at 06:43 PM
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A key employment bill has died in the California Legislature and another is on life support as lawmakers rush to finish work before the session ends Sept. 13.
Senate Bill 171, which would have required large employers to give the state data about their workers' pay rates as well as those workers' races, genders and ethnicities, died without debate in an Assembly fiscal committee Friday. Assembly Bill 170, which would make companies liable for the harassing acts of contracted supervisors, stalled on the Senate floor Tuesday, two votes short of passage.
The two bills are among a handful of measures being closely watched by employment lawyers in the final days of a session marked by organized labor seeking to push its agenda with a new governor and big Democratic majorities in both houses. Chief among their efforts is Assembly Bill 5, legislation to codify the California Supreme Court's worker classification ruling in Dynamex. That bill was still awaiting a vote on the Senate floor as of Wednesday afternoon.
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