BILL ANALYSIS Ó AB 1506 Page 1 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Policy |Labor and Employment |Vote:|5 - 2 | |Committee: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |-------------+-------------------------------+-----+-------------| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |-------------+-------------------------------+-----+-------------| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 AB 1506 Page 2 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 AB 1506 Page 3