AB 454, as introduced, Dickinson. Workers’ compensation benefits: prevailing wages.
Existing law establishes a workers’ compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of his or her employment. Existing law provides certain methods for determining workers’ compensation benefits payable to a worker for purposes of temporary disability, temporary total disability, permanent total disability, and permanent partial disability.
This bill would provide that, for purposes of determining those benefits, the amount of benefits for a worker who is injured while performing work under a contract requiring a federal, state, county, city, or city and county prevailing wage requirement shall be based on the average weekly earnings for prevailing wage contracts in the area if the worker received less than the prevailing wage.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 4460 is added to the Labor Code, to read:
Notwithstanding any other law, for purposes of
2determining benefits under Sections 4453, 4650, 4653, and 4658,
3the amount of benefits for a worker who is injured while
4performing work under a contract requiring a federal, state, county,
5city, or city and county prevailing wage requirement shall be based
6on the average weekly earnings for prevailing wage contracts in
7the area if the worker received less than the prevailing wage.
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