Bill Text: CA SB1446 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Grocery establishment and retail drug establishment employees: self-service checkout and consequential workplace technology.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-03 - Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and P. & C.P. [SB1446 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB1446-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 1446

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Introduced by Senator Smallwood-Cuevas

February 16, 2024

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An act to amend Section 2012 of the Labor Code, relating to employment.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1446, as introduced, Smallwood-Cuevas. Employment conditions.

Existing law requires the Department of Industrial Relations to keep advised of the industrial conditions in the state that affect employment of labor and, in certain specified circumstances, study and report to the Governor whether a period of extraordinary unemployment caused by industrial depression exists.

This bill would additionally require the department to report its findings to appropriate committees of the Legislature.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 2012 of the Labor Code is amended to read:

2012.

 The department shall keep constantly advised of industrial conditions throughout the State as affecting the employment of labor. Whenever the Governor represents or the division has reason to believe, that a period of extraordinary unemployment caused by industrial depression exists in the state, it shall immediately hold an inquiry into the facts relating thereto, and report to the Governor and appropriate committees of the Legislature whether, in fact, such condition exists.