20250AB__055298AMD INTRODUCED 2025-02-11 AMENDED_ASSEMBLY 2025-03-13 2025 AB AMD Introduced by Assembly Member Ortega LEAD_AUTHOR ASSEMBLY Ortega

An act to amend

Section of the Labor Code, relating to labor relations. labor relations Agricultural Labor Relations Board: office. Existing law creates the Agricultural Labor Relations Board, consisting of members, within the Labor and Workforce Development Agency. Existing law requires the principal office of the board to be in Sacramento, but authorizes the board to meet and exercise its power at any other place in California.

This bill, until January 1, 2028, would eliminate the requirement that the principal office of the board be located in Sacramento and would, instead, require the board to establish an executive or principal office. The bill would make other nonsubstantive changes.

Existing law requires an employer who has voluntarily subjected itself to a social compliance audit, as defined, whether the audit is conducted in part, or in whole, to determine if child labor is involved in the employer’s operations or practices, to post a clear and conspicuous link on its internet website to a report detailing the findings of the employer’s compliance with child labor laws, as prescribed.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that provision.</xhtml:p>"?> MAJORITY NO YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section of the Labor Code , as amended by

Section of

Chapter of the Statutes of 2023, is amended to read: 1142. (

a) The board shall establish an executive or principal office, but it may meet and exercise any or all of its power at any other place in California. (

b) Besides the executive or principal office, as provided in subdivision (a), the board may establish offices in other cities as it shall deem necessary. The board may delegate to the personnel of these offices those powers it deems appropriate to determine the unit appropriate for the purpose of collective bargaining, to investigate and provide for hearings, to determine whether a question of representation exists, to direct an election by a secret ballot pursuant to the provisions of

Chapter 5 (commencing with

Section 1156), and to certify the results of the election, or to certify a labor organization pursuant to

Section 1156.37 and to investigate, conduct hearings, and make determinations relating to unfair labor practices. The board may review any action taken pursuant to the authority delegated under this

section upon a request for a review of an action filed with the board by an interested party. Any review made by the board shall not, unless specifically ordered by the board, operate as a stay of any action taken. The entire record considered by the board in considering or acting upon any request or review shall be made available to all parties before the consideration or action, and the board’s findings and action thereon shall be published as a decision of the board. (

c) This

section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2028, and as of that date is repealed. <caml:Num>SECTION 1.</caml:Num><caml:ActionLine action="IS_AMENDED" xlink:href="urn:caml:codes:LAB:caml#xpointer(%2Fcaml%3ALawDoc%2Fcaml%3ACode%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%40type%3D'DIVISION'%20and%20caml%3ANum%3D'2.'%5D%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%40type%3D'PART'%20and%20caml%3ANum%3D'4.'%5D%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%40type%3D'CHAPTER'%20and%20caml%3ANum%3D'1.5.'%5D%2Fcaml%3ALawSection%5Bcaml%3ANum%3D'1251.'%5D)" xlink:label="fractionType: LAW_SECTION" xlink:type="locator">Section of the <caml:DocName>Labor Code</caml:DocName> is amended to read:</caml:ActionLine><caml:Fragment><caml:LawSection id="id_FEA25165-B90E-4103-8B52-F5FD119149A6"><caml:Num>1251.</caml:Num><caml:LawSectionVersion id="id_C73B3AE7-8C7E-4A01-A401-2E9CA7D41CC7"><caml:Content><xhtml:p>(a)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>An employer who has voluntarily subjected itself to a social compliance audit, whether the audit is conducted in part, or in whole, to determine if child labor is involved in the employer’s operations or practices, shall post a clear and conspicuous link on its internet website to a report detailing the findings of the employer’s compliance with child labor laws.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(b)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>A report described in subdivision (

a) shall contain all of the following:</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(1)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>The year, month, day, and time the audit was conducted and whether the audit was conducted during a day shift or night shift.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(2)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Whether the employer did or did not engage in, or support the use of, child labor.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(3)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>A copy of any written policies and procedures the employer has and had regarding child employees.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(4)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Whether the employer exposed children to any workplace situations that were hazardous or unsafe to their physical and mental health and development.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(5)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Whether children worked within or outside regular school hours, or during night hours, for the employer.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(6)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>A statement that the auditing company is not a government agency and is not authorized to verify compliance with state and federal labor laws or other health and safety regulations.</xhtml:p></caml:Content></caml:LawSectionVersion></caml:LawSection></caml:Fragment></caml:BillSection>"?>