ECA Legislative File

Friday, May 18, 2012 Also In This Update Campaign Words Can Haunt Cal/OSHA Kicks Off 2012 Heat Illness Campaign  Governor Jerry Brown released the May Revision to his 2012-13 Proposed Budget  this week, which updates revenue projections and estimated expenditures for both the current and upcoming budget years. Most of the solutions proposed in the [...]

Wednesday, May 9, 2012 Also In This Update SB 1374 (Harman) – Good Faith Reliance on State Agencies’ Written Advice, Fails In Committee Phil Rides In Google’s Self-Driving Car I am happy to report that one of our sponsored bills, AB 2021 (Wagner) which defines the term “disputed amount” in the prompt pay statutes, passed [...]

Wage Theft Protection Notice For Employees – Spanish Wage Theft Protection Act of 2011 – Notice to Employees – Revised FAQ 5-3Wage Theft Protection Notice For Employees – EnglishThursday, May 3, 2012 Also In This Update DIR Launches Small Business Portal to Help California Businesses   Labor Commissioner Releases Updated Wage Notice and FAQ As​ [...]

Wednesday, April 25, 2012   Well, it was truly ‘show time’ this week at the Capitol for our bills.  As usual, everything hit at once which meant that 3 of our bills were ‘up’ at the same time, two in one committee and another 3 floors below.  Since there’s no way of knowing when each [...]

Also In This Update Happy Tax Freedom Day! SB 1374 (Harmon) Have you ever received information from a state agency that turned out to be wrong?  If that is not bad enough, have you received wrong information and then had the agency go against you EVEN though it was their incorrect information that steered you [...]

The California Supreme Court yesterday released its long-awaited decision in a case involving employers’ obligations relating to meal and rest breaks. The most critical part of the unanimous ruling in Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior Court is that employers do not have to ensure that employees take their meal breaks, but must merely make them available. The court [...]

Also In This Update Employer Mistakes NOT To Do Revisions to Carl Moyer Program   Meal and Rest Decision Near   The California Supreme Court is expected to render a decision by April 12 on the Brinker meal and rest period case. The question of whether employers must ensure employees take breaks or must simply [...]

Thursday, March 29, 2012  With the Legislature set to ‘ramp up’ to 100% shortly, myriad bills will soon be making their way to policy committees.  Following are a few more ‘nuggets’ of bills I thought I’d share with you that I will soon be working:   AB 2039 (Swanson) Family and medical leave.   Current law, [...]

BY: Phil Vermeulen, ECA’s Legislative Advocate Thursday, March 22, 2012 As you may recall from a previous Civics lesson, all new bills must be in print for a minimum of 30 days after they have been introduced before they can begin to be heard in a legislative policy committee.  Since the bill introduction deadline was [...]

             Also In This Update Driverless Vehicles Soon To Be In The Lane Next To You? WAZE – A New Smartphone App That Will Guide You Around Traffic   Contractors Who “Cheat to Compete” Face Stiff Penalties The Contractors State License Board (CSLB) already is seeing results from a new [...]