BILL NUMBER: AB 2099	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Cedillo

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2012

   An act to amend Section 1199 of the Labor Code, relating to
employment.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2099, as introduced, Cedillo. Employment: wage and hour
violations.
   Under existing law, every employer or other person acting either
individually or as an officer, agent, or employee of another person,
who requires or causes an employee to work for longer hours than
those fixed or to work under conditions of labor prohibited by an
order of the Industrial Welfare Commission, who pays or causes to be
paid to an employee a wage less than minimum wage fixed by an order
of the commission, or who violates or refuses or neglects to comply
with any specified provision of the Labor Code or any order or ruling
of the commission is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine
of not less than $100 or by imprisonment for not less than 30 days,
or both.
   This bill would increase the fine for a violation of this
provision from not less than $100 to not less than $250. The bill
would also make technical, nonsubstantive changes.
   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 1199 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
   1199.  Every employer or other person acting either individually
or as an officer, agent, or employee of another person is guilty of a
misdemeanor  and is   ,  punishable by a
fine of not less than  one hundred dollars ($100) 
 two hundred fifty dollars ($250)  or by imprisonment for
not less than 30 days, or by both, who does any of the following:
   (a) Requires or causes any employee to work for longer hours than
those fixed, or under conditions of labor prohibited by an order of
the commission.
   (b) Pays or causes to be paid to any employee a wage less than the
minimum fixed by an order of the commission.
   (c) Violates or refuses or neglects to comply with any provision
of this chapter or any order or ruling of the commission.