Hannah-Beth Jackson
- Democratic
Author
Existing law establishes the Department of Industrial Relations in the Labor and Workforce Development Agency to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of California, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment. Existing law establishes within the department the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, which is vested with the general duty of enforcing various labor laws. Existing law creates the Labor Enforcement and Compliance Fund, moneys in which, upon appropriation by the Legislature, are available to support the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, including, among other things, enforcement of laws prohibiting wage differentials. Existing law establishes the Department of Fair Employment and Housing within the Business and Consumer Services Agency to enforce civil rights laws with respect to housing and employment and to protect and safeguard the right of all persons to obtain and hold employment without discrimination based on specified characteristics or status. Existing federal law requires specified companies to file with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission an annual Employer Information Report (EEO-1) that contains specified data regarding demographics of the employer's workforce. This bill would require, on or before September 30, 2019, and on or before September 30 each year thereafter, a private employer that has 100 or more employees and who is required to file an annual Employer Information Report under federal law, to submit a pay data report to the Department of Fair Employment and Housing that contains specified wage information. The bill would impose specified civil penalties on any employer who does not comply with the reporting requirement, and would require any penalties collected to be deposited into the Labor Enforcement and Compliance Fund, to be allocated upon appropriation by the Legislature to the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement to enforce wage differential laws. The bill would authorize the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, if the department does not receive the required report from an employer, to seek an order requiring the employer to comply, as specified. The bill would require the department to maintain the pay data reports for a minimum of 10 years and make it unlawful for any officer or employee of the department to make public in any manner whatever any individually identifiable information obtained from this report, as specified. The bill would make legislative findings in support of these provisions. The California Public Records Act requires a public agency to make public records available for inspection, unless an exemption from disclosure applies. This bill would provide that any information disclosed to the department pursuant to this bill be considered confidential information and not subject to disclosure pursuant to the California Public Records Act, except as specified. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.
Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.
August 16 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
August 15 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 24. Noes 13. Page 4464.) Ordered to the Assembly.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 4307.) (May 25).
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
Set for hearing May 25.
May 7 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
Set for hearing May 7.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 4723.) (April 17).
Set for hearing April 17.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 4626.) (April 11). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
Set for hearing April 11.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| SB1284 | HTML |
| 02/16/18 - Introduced | |
| 04/24/18 - Amended Senate | |
| 05/25/18 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/08/18 - Amended Assembly |
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