(a) The board shall establish a Health and Safety Advisory Committee to provide the board with advice and recommendations on health and safety issues before the board that impact licensees, including how to ensure licensees are aware of basic labor laws. Basic labor laws include, but are not limited to, all of the following:
(1) Key differences between the legal rights, benefits, and obligations of an employee and an independent contractor.
(2) Wage and hour rights of an hourly employee.
(3) Antidiscrimination laws relating to the use of a particular language in the workplace.
(4) Antiretaliation laws relating to a worker’s right to file complaints with the Department of Industrial Relations.
(5) How to obtain more information about state and federal labor laws.
(b) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2019, and, as of January 1, 2020, is repealed.
(Amended (as amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 409, Sec. 3) by Stats. 2017, Ch. 312, Sec. 1. (AB 326) Effective January 1, 2018. Inoperative July 1, 2019. Repealed as of January 1, 2020, by its own provisions. See later operative version added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 312.)
Last modified: October 25, 2018