BILL ANALYSIS �
AB 2575
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ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
AB 2575 (Campos)
As Introduced February 21, 2014
Majority vote
LABOR & EMPLOYMENT 6-0
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|Ayes:|Roger Hern�ndez, Grove, | | |
| |Alejo, Chau, Holden, | | |
| |Ridley-Thomas | | |
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SUMMARY : Requires the annual report from the Agricultural Labor
Relations Board (ALRB) to be made within 45 days after the close
of the fiscal year, as specified.
EXISTING LAW enacts the Alatorre-Zenovich-Dunlap-Berman
Agricultural Labor Relations Act (Act) of 1975, grants
agricultural employees the right to form and join labor
organizations and engage in collective bargaining with respect
to wages, terms of employment, and other employment conditions.
The Act creates the ALRB and requires it, at the close of the
fiscal year, to make a written report to the Legislature and the
Governor describing the cases it has heard and the decisions
rendered, the names, salaries, and duties of all employees and
officers in its employ or under its supervision, and accounting
for moneys it has disbursed.
FISCAL EFFECT : None
COMMENTS : According to the author's office, this bill seeks to
improve oversight of the ALRB by the Governor and the
Legislature and help ensure farm worker rights are protected
with a more timely receipt of the information in the report.
The reports have consistently been filed late well beyond the
current due date at the close of the fiscal year. California's
fiscal year runs from July 1st through June 30th.
California's Agricultural Labor Relations Act - Agricultural
Labor Relations Board: The Act was created in 1975 to ensure
peace in the fields of California by guaranteeing justice for
all agricultural workers and stability in agricultural labor
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relations. The Act creates the ALRB, which consists of five
members who are appointed by the Governor to administer and
oversee the Act. The ALRB seeks to achieve these ends by
providing orderly processes for protecting, implementing, and
enforcing the respective rights and responsibilities of
employees, employers and labor organizations in their relations
with each other to ensure fair labor practices.
Each year the ALRB must file a report with the Governor and the
Legislature at the close of the fiscal year. This report
details cases it has heard, decisions it has rendered and an
accounting of funds it has disbursed, among other things, and
helps determine funding levels and priorities for the upcoming
fiscal year.
Arguments in support: The United Farm Workers state in support
of this bill, "that the ALRB has had a consistent backlog of
cases that are decades' old as well as individual cases that
have been pending over a decade without resolution." They also
believe that with this new deadline requirement it will force
the ALRB to furnish the mandated report sooner ensuring the
Governor, the Legislature and the public are kept apprised of
extreme time lapses in case resolutions in a more timely manner.
No opposition on file.
Analysis Prepared by : Lorie Alvarez / L. & E. / (916)
319-2091
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