BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: April 29, 2015
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Jimmy Gomez, Chair
AB
1506 (Committee on Labor and Employment) - As Introduced March
4, 2015
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Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: NoReimbursable: No
SUMMARY:
This bill makes a clarifying change to add a statutory
cross-reference to a provision of existing law related to
specified "waiting time" penalties as they relate to theatrical
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employees.
FISCAL EFFECT:
Minor, absorbable costs to the Department of Industrial
Relations.
COMMENTS:
Purpose. Under existing law, certain industries have special
time periods to provide final pay to an employee that is
discharged or quits. For example, payment of wages for
employees laid off or discharged from production of motion
pictures may be made by the next regular payday. If an employer
willfully fails to pay any wages of an employee who is
discharged or who quits, the wages of the employee continue as a
penalty for up to 30 days. These wages are often referred to as
"waiting time" penalties.
This measure is very similar to AB 2743 (Labor Committee),
Chapter 210, Statutes of 2014, which amended a different section
of the law that failed to properly cross-reference labor code
related to this issue. Last year, legislative counsel
identified this error but it was too late to amend AB 2743 to
make the additional change. Therefore, this bill makes the
additional clarifying change identified by Legislative Counsel.
Analysis Prepared by:Misty Feusahrens / APPR. / (916)
319-2081
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