BILL NUMBER: AB 1508	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Labor and Employment (Assembly Members
Roger Hernández (Chair), Chu, Low, McCarty, and Thurmond)

                        MARCH 4, 2015

   An act to amend Section 554 of the Labor Code, relating to working
hours.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1508, as introduced, Committee on Labor and Employment. Working
hours.
   Existing law generally entitles employees to one day's rest in 7
and prohibits an employer from causing his or her employees to work
more than 6 days in 7. Existing law prescribes exceptions from these
restrictions, including in a case of emergency and when work is
performed in the protection of life or property from loss or
destruction. Existing law also permits an accumulation of days of
rest if the employment reasonably requires that the employee work 7
or more consecutive days.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 554 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
   554.  (a) Sections 551 and 552  shall   do
 not apply to  any cases   a case  of
emergency nor to work performed in the protection of life or property
from loss or destruction, nor to  any   a 
common carrier engaged in  ,  or connected with  ,
 the movement of trains. This chapter, with the exception of
Section 558,  shall   does  not apply to
 any   a  person employed in an
agricultural occupation, as defined in Order No. 14-80 (operative
January 1, 1998) of the Industrial Welfare Commission. 
Nothing in this   This  chapter shall  not
 be construed to prevent an accumulation of days of rest when
the nature of the employment reasonably requires that the employee
work seven or more consecutive days, if in each calendar month the
employee receives days of rest equivalent to one day's rest in seven.
The requirement respecting the equivalent of one day's rest in seven
shall apply, notwithstanding the other provisions of this chapter
relating to collective bargaining agreements,  where
  if  the employer and a labor organization
representing employees of the employer have entered into a valid
collective bargaining agreement respecting the hours of work of the
employees, unless the agreement expressly provides otherwise.
   (b) In addition to the exceptions specified in subdivision (a),
the Chief of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement may, when in
his or her judgment hardship will result, exempt  any
  an  employer or  employees  
employee  from  the provisions of  Sections
551 and 552.