SB 685

Abstract

Minimum wage and overtime pay; warehouse distribution center employees and employers; civil action; civil penalty. Providesthat (i) an employer that violates requirements in existing law relatingto the minimum wage, payment of wages and salaries, or overtime payor (ii) a warehouse employer, as defined in the bill, that violatesthe bill's provisions shall be liable to an impacted employee forcertain remedies, damages, and other relief as specified in the bill.The bill requires a warehouse employer to provide each warehouseemployee, as defined in the bill, a written description of each performancestandard to which such employee is subject and of any potential adverseemployment action that may result from such employee's failure tomeet such performance standard. The bill prohibits a warehouse employerfrom taking adverse action against a warehouse employee for such employee's use of a bathroom facility. The bill provides that a warehouse employer that violates the bill's provisions relating to warehouseemployers is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $5,000 for each violation.