BILL NUMBER: AB 889	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 23, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 27, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 4, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 6, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Ammiano and V. Manuel Pérez
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Allen, Cedillo, Fuentes, Ma, and
Monning)
   (Coauthor: Senator De León)

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to amend Sections 226, 3351, 3352, 3551, 3708, and 3715 of,
to repeal Section 4156 of, and to add Part 4.5 (commencing with
Section 1450) to Division 2 of, the Labor Code, relating to domestic
work employees.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 889, as amended, Ammiano. Domestic work employees.
   Existing law regulates the wages, hours, and working conditions of
any man, woman, and minor employed in any occupation, trade, or
industry, whether compensation is measured by time, piece, or
otherwise, except for individuals employed as outside salesmen and
individuals participating in specified national service programs.
Under existing law, the Industrial Welfare Commission within the
Department of Industrial Relations is authorized to adopt rules,
regulations, and orders to ensure that employers comply with those
provisions of law.
   This bill would specially regulate the wages, hours, and working
conditions of domestic work employees, as defined. Specifically, this
bill would, among other things, provide a private right of action
for a domestic work employee when those regulations are violated by
his or her employer; provide an overtime compensation rate for
domestic work employees; and require paid vacation for domestic work
employees. This bill would also expressly state that the provisions
of Wage Order Number 15 of the Industrial Welfare Commission, with
specified exceptions, apply to a domestic work employee, but would
provide that these new domestic work provisions shall prevail over
protections in that order or any other law that afford less
protection to a domestic work employee.
   Existing law requires an employer to provide its employees with
specified information regarding their wages either semimonthly or at
the time of each wage payment. Under existing law, this requirement
does not apply to employers of persons who engage in specified types
of household domestic service.
   This bill would delete the exclusion for employers of persons who
engage in specified types of household domestic service, thereby
requiring those employers to provide the above-described information.

   Existing law requires employers to secure the payment of workers'
compensation for injuries incurred by their employees that arise out
of and in the course of employment. The failure to secure workers'
compensation as required by the workers' compensation law is a
misdemeanor. Under existing law, employers of persons who engage in
specified types of household domestic service and who work less than
a specified number of hours are excluded from that definition of
employer and are therefore excluded from the requirement to secure
the payment of workers' compensation, as specified.
   This bill would remove that exclusion and require all domestic
work employers, as defined, to secure the payment of workers'
compensation and would make conforming changes. By expanding the
definition of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local
program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) As recognized by the State of California in Resolution Chapter
119 of the Statutes of 2010, it is the policy of the state to
encourage and protect the rights of domestic work employees.
   (b) California's domestic workers, which includes housekeepers,
nannies, and caregivers for children, persons with disabilities, and
the elderly, work in private households to care for the health,
safety, and well-being of the most important aspects of Californians'
lives: their families and homes.
   (c) Domestic workers play a critical role in California's economy,
working to ensure the health and prosperity of California families
and freeing others to participate in the workforce, which is
increasingly necessary in these difficult economic times. The labor
of domestic workers is central to the ongoing prosperity of the state
but, despite the value of their work, domestic workers have not
received the same protection under state laws as workers in other
industries. Most domestic workers labor to support families and
children of their own, and more than half are primary income earners,
but two-thirds of domestic workers earn low wages or wages below the
poverty line.
   (d) Because domestic workers care for the most important elements
of their employers' lives, their families and homes, it is in the
interest of employees, employers, and the people of the State of
California to ensure that the rights of domestic workers are
respected, protected, and enforced.
   (e) The vast majority of domestic workers are women of color and
immigrants and are particularly vulnerable to unlawful employment
practices and abuses. Domestic workers usually work alone, behind
closed doors, and out of the public eye, leaving them isolated,
vulnerable to abuse and exploitation, and unable to advocate
collectively for better working conditions. Domestic workers often
labor under harsh conditions, work long hours for low wages without
benefits or job security, and face termination without notice or
severance pay, leaving many suddenly without both a job and a home.
In the worst cases, domestic workers are verbally and physically
abused or sexually assaulted, forced to sleep in conditions unfit for
human habitation, and stripped of their privacy and dignity.
   (f) Domestic workers are still excluded from the most basic
protections afforded the rest of the labor force under state and
federal law, including the rights to fair wages, safe and healthy
working conditions, workers' compensation, and protection from
discriminatory and abusive treatment. The treatment of domestic
workers under federal and state laws has historically reflected
stereotypical assumptions about the nature of domestic work,
specifically that the relationship between employer and "servant" was
"personal," rather than commercial, in character, that employment
within a household was not "real" productive work, and that women did
not work to support their families.
   (g) Given the limited legal protections historically provided to
domestic workers, and bearing in mind the unique conditions and
demands of this private, home-based industry, the Legislature, as an
exercise of the police power of the State of California for the
protection of the public welfare, prosperity, health, safety, and
peace of its people, further finds that domestic workers are entitled
to industry-specific protections and labor standards that eliminate
discriminatory provisions in the labor laws and guarantee domestic
workers basic workplace rights to ensure that domestic workers are
treated with equality, respect, and dignity.
  SEC. 2.  Section 226 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
   226.  (a) Every employer shall, semimonthly or at the time of each
payment of wages, furnish each of his or her employees, either as a
detachable part of the check, draft, or voucher paying the employee's
wages, or separately when wages are paid by personal check or cash,
an accurate itemized statement in writing showing (1) gross wages
earned, (2) total hours worked by the employee, except for any
employee whose compensation is solely based on a salary and who is
exempt from payment of overtime under subdivision (a) of Section 515
or any applicable order of the Industrial Welfare Commission, (3) the
number of piece-rate units earned and any applicable piece rate if
the employee is paid on a piece-rate basis, (4) all deductions,
provided that all deductions made on written orders of the employee
may be aggregated and shown as one item, (5) net wages earned, (6)
the inclusive dates of the period for which the employee is paid, (7)
the name of the employee and his or her social security number,
except that by January 1, 2008, only the last four digits of his or
her social security number or an employee identification number other
than a social security number may be shown on the itemized
statement, (8) the name and address of the legal entity that is the
employer, and (9) all applicable hourly rates in effect during the
pay period and the corresponding number of hours worked at each
hourly rate by the employee. The deductions made from payments of
wages shall be recorded in ink or other indelible form, properly
dated, showing the month, day, and year, and a copy of the statement
or a record of the deductions shall be kept on file by the employer
for at least three years at the place of employment or at a central
location within the State of California.
   (b) An employer that is required by this code or any regulation
adopted pursuant to this code to keep the information required by
subdivision (a) shall afford current and former employees the right
to inspect or copy the records pertaining to that current or former
employee, upon reasonable request to the employer. The employer may
take reasonable steps to assure the identity of a current or former
employee. If the employer provides copies of the records, the actual
cost of reproduction may be charged to the current or former
employee.
   (c) An employer who receives a written or oral request to inspect
or copy records pursuant to subdivision (b) pertaining to a current
or former employee shall comply with the request as soon as
practicable, but no later than 21 calendar days from the date of the
request. A violation of this subdivision is an infraction.
Impossibility of performance, not caused by or a result of a
violation of law, shall be an affirmative defense for an employer in
any action alleging a violation of this subdivision. An employer may
designate the person to whom a request under this subdivision will be
made.
   (d) An employee suffering injury as a result of a knowing and
intentional failure by an employer to comply with subdivision (a) is
entitled to recover the greater of all actual damages or fifty
dollars ($50) for the initial pay period in which a violation occurs
and one hundred dollars ($100) per employee for each violation in a
subsequent pay period, not exceeding an aggregate penalty of four
thousand dollars ($4,000), and is entitled to an award of costs and
reasonable attorney's fees.
   (e) A failure by an employer to permit a current or former
employee to inspect or copy records within the time set forth in
subdivision (c) entitles the current or former employee or the Labor
Commissioner to recover a seven hundred fifty dollar ($750) penalty
from the employer.
   (f) An employee may also bring an action for injunctive relief to
ensure compliance with this section, and is entitled to an award of
costs and reasonable attorney's fees.
   (g) This section does not apply to the state, to any city, county,
city and county, district, or to any other governmental entity,
except that if the state or a city, county, city and county,
district, or other governmental entity furnishes its employees with a
check, draft, or voucher paying the employee's wages, the state or a
city, county, city and county, district, or other governmental
entity shall, by January 1, 2008, use no more than the last four
digits of the employee's social security number or shall use an
employee identification number other than the social security number
on the itemized statement provided with the check, draft, or voucher.

  SEC. 3.  Part 4.5 (commencing with Section 1450) is added to
Division 2 of the Labor Code, to read:

      PART 4.5.  Domestic Work Employees


      CHAPTER 1.  GENERAL PROVISIONS AND DEFINITIONS


   1450.  This part shall be known and may be cited as the Domestic
Work Employee Equality, Fairness, and Dignity Act.
   1451.  As used in this part, the following definitions apply:
    (a) "Domestic work" means services related to the care of persons
in private households or maintenance of private households or their
premises. Domestic work occupations include childcare providers,
caregivers of sick, convalescing, or elderly persons, house cleaners,
housekeepers, maids, and other household occupations.
   (b) (1) "Domestic work employee" means an individual who performs
domestic work and includes live-in domestic work employees and
personal attendants.
   (2) "Domestic work employee" does not include any of the
following:
   (A) Any person who performs services through the In-Home
Supportive Services program under Article 7 (commencing with Section
12300) of Chapter 3 of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and
Institutions Code.
   (B) Any person who is the parent, grandparent, spouse, 
sibling,  child, or legally adopted child of the domestic work
employer.
   (C) Any person under 18 years of age who is employed as a
babysitter for a minor child of the domestic work employer.
   (D) Any person employed by a licensed health facility, as defined
in Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code.
   (E) Any person who is employed by, or contracts with, an
organization vendored or contracted through a regional center or the
State Department of Developmental Services pursuant to the Lanterman
Developmental Disabilities Services Act (Division 4.5 (commencing
with Section 4500) of the Welfare and Institutions Code) and the
California Early Intervention Services Act (Title 14 (commencing with
Section 95000) of the Government Code) to provide services and
support for persons with developmental disabilities, as defined in
Section 4512 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, when funding for
those services is provided through the State Department of
Developmental Services. 
   (F) Any person who provides child care and who, pursuant to
subdivision (d) or (f) of Section 1596.792 of the Health and Safety
Code, is exempt from the licensing requirements of Chapters 3.4
(commencing with Section 1596.70), 3.5 (commencing with Section
1596.90), and 3.6 (commencing with Section 1597.30) of Division 2 of
the Health and Safety Code, if the parent or guardian of the child to
whom child care is provided receives child care and development
services pursuant to any program authorized under the Child Care and
Development Services Act (Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 8200) of
Part 6 of Division 1 of Title 1 of the Education Code) or the
California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act (Chapter 2
(commencing with Section 11200) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the
Welfare and Institutions Code). 
   (c) (1) "Domestic work employer" means a person, including
corporate officers or executives, who directly or indirectly, or
through an agent or any other person, including through the services
of a third-party employer, temporary service, or staffing agency or
similar entity, employs or exercises control over the wages, hours,
or working conditions of a domestic work employee.
   (2) "Domestic work employer" does not include any of the
following:
   (A) The State of California or individuals who receive domestic
work services through the In-Home Supportive Services program under
Article 7 (commencing with Section 12300) of Chapter 3 of Part 3 of
Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
   (B) An employment agency that complies with Section 1812.5095 of
the Civil Code and that operates solely to procure, offer, refer,
provide, or attempt to provide work to domestic workers if the
relationship between the employment agency and the domestic workers
for whom the agency procures, offers, refers, provides, or attempts
to provide domestic work is characterized by all of the factors
listed in subdivision (b) of Section 1812.5095 of the Civil Code and
Section 687.2 of the Unemployment Insurance Code.
   (C) A licensed health facility, as defined in Section 1250 of the
Health and Safety Code.
   (d) "Emergency" means an unpredictable or unavoidable occurrence
of a serious nature that occurs unexpectedly requiring immediate
action.
   (e) "Hours worked" means the time during which a domestic work
employee is subject to the control of a domestic work employer, and
includes all time the domestic work employee is suffered or permitted
to work, whether or not required to do so.
   (f) "Live-in domestic work employee" means a domestic work
employee who lives in the establishment where he or she works.
   (g) "Personal attendant" means a person who performs domestic work
related to the supervision, feeding, or dressing of a child or other
person who, by reason of advanced age, physical disability, or
mental deficiency, needs supervision. Personal attendant includes
babysitters. The status of "personal attendant" applies if no
significant amount of work other than the foregoing is required.
   1452.  The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement shall enforce
this part.
   1453.  (a) Any domestic work employee aggrieved by a violation of
this part may bring an administrative action pursuant to Section 98
or may bring a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction
against the domestic work employer violating this part.
   (b) Upon prevailing, a domestic work employee bringing an action
pursuant to this section shall be entitled to any legal or equitable
relief as may be appropriate to remedy the violation, including the
payment of any back wages unlawfully withheld, the payment of an
additional sum as liquidated damages or penalties as specified in
this part, reinstatement of employment, interest, or injunctive
relief, or any combination of these remedies, as appropriate. A
domestic work employee bringing a civil action pursuant to this
section shall also be entitled to recover an award of reasonable
attorney's fees and costs, including expert witness fees.
   (c) The rights and remedies specified in this part are cumulative
and nonexclusive and are in addition to any other rights or remedies
afforded by contract or under other provisions of law. If a provision
of Wage Order Number 15 of the Industrial Welfare Commission or any
other provision of law affords less protection to a domestic work
employee, this part shall prevail.
   (d) Notwithstanding any provision of this code or Section 340 of
the Code of Civil Procedure, to commence an action for a violation of
this part a domestic work employee shall file an administrative or
civil complaint within three years of the violation.
      CHAPTER 2.  DOMESTIC WORK EMPLOYEE RIGHTS


   1454.  Except where otherwise provided in this chapter, Section
510 applies to a domestic work employee.
   1455.  (a) A domestic work employee who is required to be on duty
for 24 consecutive hours or more shall have a minimum of eight
consecutive hours for uninterrupted sleep, except in an emergency.
   (b) If a domestic work employee is required to be on duty for 24
consecutive hours or more, the domestic work employer and the
domestic work employee may agree in writing to exclude a bona fide
regularly scheduled sleeping period of not more than eight hours for
uninterrupted sleep from hours worked, provided that the domestic
work employer otherwise complies with this section and Section 1457.
If no written agreement to the contrary is present, the eight hours
of sleeping time shall constitute hours worked.
   (c) There is a rebuttable presumption that a domestic work
employee did not receive eight consecutive hours for uninterrupted
sleep if he or she is required to be on duty for 24 consecutive hours
or more and the domestic work employer does not hire a replacement
worker for at least eight consecutive hours in the 24-hour work
period.
   (d) A domestic work employer shall pay a sum of fifty dollars
($50) to the domestic work employee for each day that the domestic
employer violates this section.
   1456.  (a) A live-in domestic work employee who is not required to
be on duty for 24 consecutive hours or more shall have at least 12
consecutive hours free of duty during each workday of 24 hours, of
which a minimum of eight consecutive hours are for uninterrupted
sleep. A live-in domestic work employee suffered or permitted to work
during the 12 consecutive off-duty hours shall be compensated in
accordance with Section 510.
   (b) A live-in domestic work employee shall not be required to work
more than five days in any one workweek without a day off of not
less than 24 consecutive hours, except in an emergency. A live-in
domestic work employee who is suffered or permitted to work in excess
of five workdays in any workweek shall be compensated in accordance
with Section 510.
   (c) A domestic work employer shall pay a sum of fifty dollars
($50) to the domestic work employee for each day that the domestic
work employer violates this section.
   1457.  Live-in domestic work employees and domestic work employees
who work 24 consecutive hours or more shall be provided sleeping
accommodations that are adequate, decent, and sanitary according to
usual customary standards. Domestic work employees shall not be
required to share a bed.
   1458.  Except as otherwise provided in this part, the provisions
of Industrial Welfare Commission Wage Order Number 15, except Section
6, shall apply to a domestic work employee.
   1460.  (a) A domestic work employer shall permit a domestic work
employee who works five hours or more to choose the food he or she
eats and to prepare his or her own meals. A domestic work employer
shall permit a domestic work employee to use the job site's kitchen
facilities and kitchen appliances without charge or deduction from
pay.
   (b) If a domestic work employer and the domestic work employee
agree that the domestic work employer will provide meals and the
domestic work employer wishes to offset the costs of those meals
pursuant to Industrial Welfare Commission Wage Order Number 15, the
domestic work employee may request and receive specific food items
for those meals.
   (c) A domestic work employer who violates this section shall pay a
sum of fifty dollars ($50) to each domestic work employee for each
day that he or she violated this section.
   1461.  (a) (1) A domestic work employee shall accrue paid vacation
benefits at the rate of not less than one hour per every 30 hours
worked, beginning at the commencement of employment or the operative
date of this provision, whichever occurs first. A domestic work
employer shall permit a domestic work employee to use accrued paid
vacation after one year of service. One year of service is completed
on the 365th calendar day of employment.
   (2) Unused accrued paid vacation benefits shall carry over from
year to year. However, a domestic work employer may limit a domestic
work employee's use of accrued paid vacation as follows:
   (A) After the first year of service, a domestic work employee may
use 40 hours or five days of paid vacation in each calendar year,
whichever is greater.
   (B) After the fifth year of service, a domestic work employee may
use 80 hours or 10 days of paid vacation in each calendar year,
whichever is greater.
   (C) After the tenth year of service, a domestic work employee may
use 120 hours or 15 days of paid vacation in each calendar year,
whichever is greater.
   (b) A domestic work employer shall not require, as a condition of
taking paid vacation, that the domestic work employee search for or
find a replacement worker to cover the hours during which the
domestic work employee is on paid vacation leave.
   (c) (1) A domestic work employee aggrieved by a violation of this
section shall be entitled to all of the following:
   (A) The amount of any paid vacation unlawfully withheld.
   (B) A penalty of two hundred fifty dollars ($250).
   (C) Appropriate equitable relief.
   (2) A domestic work employee is not aggrieved by a violation of
this section if the domestic work employer can demonstrate that it
denied a request to use paid vacation because of an emergency and
provided another opportunity for the domestic work employee to take
vacation time within three months of the date the domestic work
employee originally requested to use paid vacation.
   (d) Upon request, a domestic work employer shall provide to a
domestic work employee an annual statement indicating the amount and
periods of accrued vacation.
  SEC. 4.  Section 3351 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
   3351.  "Employee" means every person in the service of an employer
under any appointment or contract of hire or apprenticeship, express
or implied, oral or written, whether lawfully or unlawfully
employed, and includes:
   (a) Aliens and minors.
   (b) All elected and appointed paid public officers.
   (c) All officers and members of boards of directors of
quasi-public or private corporations while rendering actual service
for the corporations for pay; provided that, where the officers and
directors of the private corporation are the sole shareholders
thereof, the corporation and the officers and directors shall come
under the compensation provisions of this division only by election
as provided in subdivision (a) of Section 4151.
   (d) A person employed by the owner or occupant of a residential
dwelling whose duties are incidental to the ownership, maintenance,
or use of the dwelling, including the care and supervision of
children, persons of advanced age, or persons with physical or mental
disabilities, or whose duties are personal and not in the course of
the trade, business, profession, or occupation of the owner or
occupant.
   (e) All persons incarcerated in a state penal or correctional
institution while engaged in assigned work or employment or engaged
in work performed under contract.
   (f) All working members of a partnership or limited liability
company receiving wages irrespective of profits from the partnership
or limited liability company, provided that where the working members
of the partnership or limited liability company are general partners
or managers, the partnership or limited liability company and the
partners or managers shall come under the compensation provisions of
this division only by election as provided in subdivision (a) of
Section 4151. If a private corporation is a general partner or
manager, "working members of a partnership or limited liability
company" shall include the corporation and the officers and directors
of the corporation, provided that the officers and directors are the
sole shareholders of the corporation. If a limited liability company
is a partner or member, "working members of the partnership or
limited liability company" shall include the managers of the limited
liability company.
   (g) For the purposes of subdivisions (c) and (f), the persons
holding the power to revoke a trust as to shares of a private
corporation or as to general partnership or limited liability company
interests held in the trust, shall be deemed to be the shareholders
of the private corporation, or the general partners of the
partnership, or the managers of the limited liability company.
  SEC. 5.  Section 3352 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
   3352.  "Employee" excludes the following:
   (a) Any person defined in subdivision (d) of Section 3351 who is
employed by his or her parent, spouse, or child.
   (b) Any person performing services in return for aid or sustenance
only, received from any religious, charitable, or relief
organization.
   (c) Any person holding an appointment as deputy clerk or deputy
sheriff appointed for his or her own convenience, and who receives no
compensation from the county or municipal corporation or from the
citizens thereof for his or her services as the deputy. This
exclusion is operative only as to employment by the county or
municipal corporation and does not deprive any person so deputized
from recourse against a private person employing him or her for
injury occurring in the course of and arising out of the employment.
   (d) Any person performing voluntary services at or for a
recreational camp, hut, or lodge operated by a nonprofit
organization, exempt from federal income tax under Section 501 of the
Internal Revenue Code, of which he or she or a member of his or her
family is a member and who receives no compensation for those
services other than meals, lodging, or transportation.
   (e) Any person performing voluntary service as a ski patrolman who
receives no compensation for those services other than meals or
lodging or the use of ski tow or ski lift facilities.
   (f) Any person employed by a ski lift operator to work at a snow
ski area who is relieved of and not performing any prescribed duties,
while participating in recreational activities on his or her own
initiative.
   (g) Any person, other than a regular employee, participating in
sports or athletics who receives no compensation for the
participation other than the use of athletic equipment, uniforms,
transportation, travel, meals, lodgings, or other expenses incidental
thereto.
   (h) Any person performing voluntary service for a public agency or
a private, nonprofit organization who receives no remuneration for
the services other than meals, transportation, lodging, or
reimbursement for incidental expenses.
   (i) Any person, other than a regular employee, performing
officiating services relating to amateur sporting events sponsored by
any public agency or private, nonprofit organization, who receives
no remuneration for these services other than a stipend for each day
of service no greater than the amount established by the Department
of Personnel Administration as a per diem expense for employees or
officers of the state. The stipend shall be presumed to cover
incidental expenses involved in officiating, including, but not
limited to, meals, transportation, lodging, rule books and courses,
uniforms, and appropriate equipment.
   (j) Any student participating as an athlete in amateur sporting
events sponsored by any public agency, public or private nonprofit
college, university, or school, who receives no remuneration for the
participation other than the
  use of athletic equipment, uniforms, transportation, travel, meals,
lodgings, scholarships, grants-in-aid, or other expenses incidental
thereto.
   (k) Any law enforcement officer who is regularly employed by a
local or state law enforcement agency in an adjoining state and who
is deputized to work under the supervision of a California peace
officer pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section 832.6
of the Penal Code.
   (l) Any law enforcement officer who is regularly employed by the
Oregon State Police, the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles and
Public Safety, or the Arizona Department of Public Safety and who is
acting as a peace officer in this state pursuant to subdivision (a)
of Section 830.39 of the Penal Code.
   (m) Any person, other than a regular employee, performing services
as a sports official for an entity sponsoring an intercollegiate or
interscholastic sports event, or any person performing services as a
sports official for a public agency, public entity, or a private
nonprofit organization, which public agency, public entity, or
private nonprofit organization sponsors an amateur sports event. For
purposes of this subdivision, "sports official" includes an umpire,
referee, judge, scorekeeper, timekeeper, or other person who is a
neutral participant in a sports event.
   (n) Any person who is an owner-builder, as defined in subdivision
(a) of Section 50692 of the Health and Safety Code, who is
participating in a mutual self-help housing program, as defined in
Section 50087 of the Health and Safety Code, sponsored by a nonprofit
corporation.
  SEC. 6.  Section 3551 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
   3551.  (a) Every employer subject to the compensation provisions
of this code shall give every new employee, either at the time the
employee is hired or by the end of the first pay period, written
notice of the information contained in Section 3550. The content of
the notice required by this section shall be prescribed by the
administrative director after consultation with the Commission on
Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation.
   (b) The notice required by this section shall be easily
understandable and available in both English and Spanish. In addition
to the information contained in Section 3550, the content of the
notice required by this section shall include:
   (1) Generally, how to obtain appropriate medical care for a job
injury.
   (2) The role and function of the primary treating physician.
   (3) A form that the employee may use as an optional method for
notifying the employer of the name of the employee's "personal
physician," as defined by Section 4600, or "personal chiropractor,"
as defined by Section 4601.
   (c) The content of the notice required by this section shall be
made available to employers and insurers by the administrative
director. Insurers shall provide this notice to each of their
policyholders, with advice concerning the requirements of this
section and the penalties for a failure to provide this notice to all
employees.
  SEC. 7.  Section 3708 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
   3708.  In such action it is presumed that the injury to the
employee was a direct result and grew out of the negligence of the
employer, and the burden of proof is upon the employer, to rebut the
presumption of negligence. It is not a defense to the employer that
the employee was guilty of contributory negligence, or assumed the
risk of the hazard complained of, or that the injury was caused by
the negligence of a fellow servant. No contract or regulation shall
restore to the employer any of the foregoing defenses.
  SEC. 8.  Section 3715 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
   3715.  (a) Any employee whose employer has failed to secure the
payment of compensation as required by this division, or his or her
dependents in case death has ensued, may, in addition to proceeding
against his or her employer by civil action in the courts as provided
in Section 3706, file his or her application with the appeals board
for compensation and the appeals board shall hear and determine the
application for compensation in like manner as in other claims and
shall make the award to the claimant as he or she would be entitled
to receive if the employer had secured the payment of compensation as
required, and the employer shall pay the award in the manner and
amount fixed thereby or shall furnish to the appeals board a bond, in
any amount and with any sureties as the appeals board requires, to
pay the employee the award in the manner and amount fixed thereby.
   (b) (1) In any claim in which it is alleged that the employer has
failed to secure the payment of compensation, the director, only for
purposes of this section and Section 3720, shall determine, on the
basis of the evidence available to him or her, whether the employer
was prima facie illegally uninsured. A finding that the employer was
prima facie illegally uninsured shall be made when the director
determines that there is sufficient evidence to constitute a prima
facie case that the employer employed an employee on the date of the
alleged injury and had failed to secure the payment of compensation,
and that the employee was injured arising out of, and occurring in
the course of, the employment.
   (2) Failure of the employer to furnish within 10 days the written
statement in response to a written demand for a written statement
prescribed in Section 3711, addressed to the employer at its address
as shown on the official address record of the appeals board, shall
constitute in itself sufficient evidence for a prima facie case that
the employer failed to secure the payment of compensation.
   (3) A written denial by the insurer named in the statement
furnished by the employer as prescribed in Section 3711, that the
employer was so insured as claimed, or the nonexistence of a valid
certificate of consent to self-insure for the time of the claimed
injury, if the statement furnished by the employer claims the
employer was self-insured, shall constitute in itself sufficient
evidence for a prima facie case that the employer had failed to
secure the payment of compensation.
   (4) The nonexistence of a record of the employer's insurance with
the Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau shall constitute in
itself sufficient evidence for a prima facie case that the employer
failed to secure the payment of compensation.
   (5) The unrebutted written declaration under penalty of perjury by
the injured employee, or applicant other than the employee, that the
employee was employed by the employer at the time of the injury, and
that he or she was injured in the course of his or her employment,
shall constitute, in itself, sufficient evidence for a prima facie
case that the employer employed the employee at the time of the
injury, and that the employee was injured arising out of, and
occurring in the course of, the employment.
   (c) (1) When the director determines that an employer was prima
facie illegally uninsured, the director shall mail a written notice
of the determination to the employer at his or her address as shown
on the official address record of the appeals board, and to any other
more recent address the director may possess. The notice shall
advise the employer of its right to appeal the finding, and that a
lien may be placed against the employer's and any parent corporation'
s property, or the property of substantial shareholders of a
corporate employer as defined by Section 3717.
   (2) Any employer aggrieved by a finding of the director that it
was prima facie illegally uninsured may appeal the finding by filing
a petition before the appeals board. The petition shall be filed
within 20 days after the finding is issued. The appeals board shall
hold a hearing on the petition within 20 days after the petition is
filed with the appeals board. The appeals board shall have exclusive
jurisdiction to determine appeals of the findings by the director,
and no court of this state has jurisdiction to review, annul, or
suspend the findings or the liens created thereunder, except as
provided by Article 2 (commencing with Section 5950) of Chapter 7 of
Part 4 of Division 4.
   (d) (1) Any claim brought against an employer under this section
may be resolved by the director by compromise and release or
stipulated findings and award as long as the appeals board has
acquired jurisdiction over the employer and the employer has been
given notice and an opportunity to object.
   (2) Notice may be given by service on the employer of an appeals
board notice of intention to approve the compromise and release or
stipulated findings and award. The employer shall have 20 days after
service of the notice of intention to file an objection with the
appeals board and show good cause therefor.
   (3) If the employer objects, the appeals board shall determine if
there is good cause for the objection.
   (4) If the appeals board finds good cause for the objection, the
director may proceed with the compromise and release or stipulated
findings and award if doing so best serves the interest of the
Uninsured Employers Fund, but shall have no cause of action against
the employer under Section 3717 unless the appeals board case is
tried to its conclusion and the employer is found liable.
   (5) If the appeals board does not find good cause for the
objection, and the compromise and release or stipulated findings and
award is approved, the Uninsured Employers Fund shall have a cause of
action against the employer pursuant to Section 3717.
   (e) The director may adopt regulations to implement and interpret
the procedures provided for in this section.
  SEC. 9.  Section 4156 of the Labor Code is repealed.
  SEC. 10.  No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the
Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the
meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution.