Bill Text: CA AB2540 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 2540 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Workforce development: grocery industry.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-17 - In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. [AB2540 Detail]

Download: California-2019-AB2540-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2540

Introduced by Assembly Member Cooper

February 19, 2020

An act to add Section 3094 to the Labor Code, relating to workforce development.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2540, as introduced, Cooper. Workforce development: grocery industry.

Existing law establishes the Labor and Workforce Development Agency in the Department of Industrial Relations to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of California and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment, among other duties. Existing law also requires specified state entities, in cooperation with the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, to foster and promote on-the-job training programs other than apprenticeship, in accordance with and agreed to by the parties to applicable collective bargaining agreements, as specified.

This bill would require the Labor and Workforce Development Agency to develop a labor-management training partnership to identify workforce training methods appropriate for the grocery industry.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 3094 is added to the Labor Code, to read:

3094.

The Labor and Workforce Development Agency shall develop a labor-management training partnership to identify workforce training methods appropriate for the grocery industry.