2020 Legislative Summary Employment Law, Part VI

January 21, 2020 by Christopher Hammer, Lorrie Bradley, Stephanie Platenkamp, Tony Rice, Sarah Kanbar, Travis West and Kena Cador

This is the final post of our six-part series summarizing significant legislative changes in labor and employment law for 2020.

PUBLIC SECTOR LABOR & EMPLOYMENT

AB 378 – Family childcare providers: Bargaining representative

This bill authorizes family childcare providers to form, join, and participate in the activities of a labor organization that has been certified by PERB as the representative of such providers in an appropriate unit. Certification will be provided through a PERB election after a 10-percent showing of interest is submitted in a certification petition. If any state entity or affiliated contractor chooses to hold in-person preservice meetings or orientations, that entity must provide the provider organization with access to such meetings and the ability to make a presentation about the organization and its activities. Likewise, if any state entity or affiliated contractor chooses to disseminate certain mass communications to providers or subsidy applicants, the Governor, through his representative, must meet and confer with the certified labor organization concerning the communication.

Read the text of the bill here:
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB378

SB 698 – UC Employee wages: Payment

This bill requires that employees of the Regents of the University of California be paid on a regular payday, similar to the requirement for employers generally. The bill requires those university employees who are paid on a monthly basis to be paid no later than 5 days after the close of the monthly payroll period and also provides that those employees who are paid on a more frequent basis be paid in accordance with the pay policies announced in advance by the university.

Read the text of the bill here:
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB698

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