SB 994: Employees: leave provisions: database.

Existing law requires an employer to provide time off to his or her employees under specified circumstances, including military service, illness of the employee or of a member of the employees family, and jury duty. Existing law provides for disciplinary action by the Labor and Workforce Development Agency against violators of wage and hour requirements, authorizes civil penalties in some circumstances, and authorizes the Labor Commissioner to enforce those provisions pursuant to administrative authority or by civil suit.

Existing law requires the Labor Commissioner to develop a model notice pertaining to workplace rights and wage and hour laws for employees to be posted in the workplace, as specified. Existing law also requires the Labor Commissioner to maintain a public database on the Department of Industrial Relations (department) Internet Web site of property service contractors that includes specified licensing information.

This bill would require the Labor Commissioner to create and maintain a database on the departments Internet Web site, as specified, that would list all of the federal and state laws requiring an employer to provide an employee with time off, including hyperlinks to the underlying laws creating those requirements. The bill would also require the Labor Commissioner to update the information in the database annually and to establish an advisory group of employer and employee representatives to assist with the design and content of the database.