Bill Text: CA AB2678 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 2678 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Working hours.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-06 - From printer. May be heard in committee April 5. [AB2678 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB2678-Introduced.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 2678	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Labor and Employment (Assembly Members
Swanson (Chair), Alejo, Allen, Furutani, and Yamada)

                        MARCH 5, 2012

   An act to amend Section 554 of the Labor Code, relating to
employment.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2678, as introduced, Committee on Labor and Employment. Working
hours.
   Existing law provides that, with specified exceptions, employees
are entitled to one day's rest in 7, and an employer may not cause
his or her employees to work more than 6 days in 7.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
   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 554 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
   554.  (a) Sections 551 and 552 shall not apply to  any
cases   a case  of emergency nor to work performed
in the protection of life or property from loss or destruction, nor
to  any   a  common carrier engaged in or
connected with the movement of trains. This chapter, with the
exception of Section 558, shall not apply to  any 
 a  person employed in an agricultural occupation, as
defined in Order No. 14-80 (operative January 1, 1998) of the
Industrial Welfare Commission. Nothing in this chapter shall be
construed to prevent an accumulation of days of rest when the nature
of the employment reasonably requires that the employee work seven or
more consecutive days, if in each calendar month the employee
receives days of rest equivalent to one day's rest in seven. The
requirement respecting the equivalent of one day's rest in seven
shall apply, notwithstanding the other provisions of this chapter
relating to collective bargaining agreements,  where
  if  the employer and a labor organization
representing employees of the employer have entered into a valid
collective bargaining agreement respecting the hours of work of the
employees, unless the agreement expressly provides otherwise.
   (b) In addition to the exceptions specified in subdivision (a),
the Chief of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement may, when in
his or her judgment hardship will result, exempt  any
  an  employer or employees from the provisions of
Sections 551 and 552.