The California Legislature has approved bills that would amend a 20-year-old law allowing workers to sue their bosses over labor violations. The 2004 law required employers found liable for violations to pay employees and the state. The bills came out of a deal between Democratic Gov.
FILE - Assemblyman Ash Kalra, D-San Jose, discusses his bill that would pay for the universal health care bill, during a news conference at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022. Kalra announced legislation this week to reform a 20-year-old law allowing workers to sue their bosses over labor violations and requires employers found liable to pay employees and the state.FILE - Democratic state Sen.
Under the 2004 law, employers who have violated California’s labor code must pay a fine. A quarter of that money goes to workers and the rest to the Labor and Workforce Development Agency for worker safety law enforcement and education. Democratic Assemblymember Ash Kalra, who authored one of the bills, said the deal “demonstrates how things should be done when all sides come together to resolve a longstanding issue of division.”
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