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AB 514 – De Leon: Requires an employer to provide a 20-minute paid rest period for lactation purposes during each 4-hour work period, immediately preceding or following the employee's rest period, and would specify that compliance with this requirement does not satisfy or affect an employer's separate obligation to provide a meal or rest period required by statute.

AB 527 – Fuentes: Provides that if the Labor Commissioner finds that payroll records submitted for any pay period relating to any claim or complaint brought pursuant to the commissioner's authority have been falsified, all payroll records relating to that claim or complaint must be presumed false and disregarded.

AB 793 – Jones: Specifies when a cause of action for unlawful discrimination or unlawful employment practice with respect to compensation accrues for determining whether a complaint was filed within statutory deadlines.

AB 842 – Swanson: Increases the layoff notice period from 60 to 90 days. Requires employers, when notice is given, to provide employees with information regarding benefits and services available to them once the notice of layoff is given. Requires employers that give notice of a mass layoff, relocation, or termination to provide sufficient meeting space for the provision of rapid response activity.

AB 849 – Swanson: Increases the circumstances under which an employee is entitled to protected leave pursuant to the Family Rights Act by (1) eliminating the age and dependency elements from the definition of "child," thereby permitting an employee to take protected leave to care for his or her independent adult child suffering from a serious health condition, (2) expanding the definition of "parent" to include an employee's parent-in-law, and (3) permitting an employee to also take leave to care for a seriously ill grandparent, sibling, grandchild, or domestic partner, as defined.

AB 943 – Mendoza: Prohibits an employer, unless based on a bona fide occupational qualification, from refusing to hire or employ a person, refusing to select a person for a training program leading to employment, barring or discharging a person from employment or from a training program leading to employment, discriminating against a person in compensation or in terms, conditions, or privileges of employment because the person does not authorize the employer to obtain a credit report regarding the person.

AB 1000 – Ma & Skinner: Provides that an employee who works in California for 7 or more days in a calendar year is entitled to paid sick days, as defined, which shall be accrued at a rate of no less than one hour for every 30 hours worked.

AB 1288 – Fong: Prohibits the state, or a city, county, city and county, or special district, from requiring an employer other than one of those government entities to use an electronic employment verification system.

AB 1298 – Coto & Arambula: Revises this provision to exclude remuneration in excess of $16,600 paid to an individual by an employer during that calendar year and would, for each calendar year thereafter, exclude remuneration paid to an individual by an employer during that calendar year in excess of the greater of $16,600 or an amount equal to 1/3 of the annualized state average weekly wage, as defined.

AB 569, SB 287, SB 380, SB 665: Revises the statutory requirements for the provision of meal periods

SB 222 – Ducheny: Existing law excludes from the definition of "wages," for purposes of the Unemployment Insurance Law, remuneration in excess of $7,000 paid to an individual by an employer during any calendar year, with respect to employment. This bill would revise this provision to exclude remuneration in excess of $21,000.

SB 404 – Benoit: Changes the time limit for an employer to report the results of an alternative workweek election to an indeterminate number of days following the election.

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