Bill Text: CA SB1457 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 1457

Introduced

Bill Title: Chain employer: displacement notice.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-29 - Referred to Com. on RLS. [SB1457 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB1457-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 1457

Introduced by Senator Smallwood-Cuevas

February 16, 2024

An act relating to employment.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1457, as introduced, Smallwood-Cuevas. Chain employer: displacement notice.

Existing law, the California Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act, governs mass layoffs, relocations, and terminations. Existing law prohibits an employer, with certain exceptions, from ordering a mass layoff, relocation, or termination at a covered establishment without giving prescribed written notice to the affected employees, the Employment Development Department, the local workforce investment board, and specified local officials.

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to require a chain employer to provide each covered worker and their exclusive representative, if any, a displacement notice.

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

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

SECTION 1.

It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to require a chain employer to provide each covered worker and their exclusive representative, if any, a displacement notice.