New COVID-19 protections for California employees
New COVID-19 protections for employees
By: Adam Racusin
and last updated 2021-01-16 11:38:57-05
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) â As the number of Californians testing positive for COVID-19 continues to climb, California workers have new protections to help keep them healthy.
Assembly Bill 685, which took effect Jan. 1 of this year, deals with COVID-19 exposure, notification, and violations.
The new law requires employers to provide notice within one business day to employees who have been exposed to COVID-19 at their worksite and report to the California Department of Public Health if an outbreak occurs. The reason that we had to introduce this is because we had lots of employers who were not notifying their employees when they had been exposed to someone who was positive for COVID-19,â said bill author Assemblymember Eloise Reyes. It seemed like it was common sense, but it wasn t happening.
New COVID-19 protections for California employees
New COVID-19 protections for employees
and last updated 2021-01-15 16:02:37-05
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) â As the number of Californians testing positive for COVID-19 continues to climb, California workers have new protections to help keep them healthy.
Assembly Bill 685, which took effect Jan. 1 of this year, deals with COVID-19 exposure, notification, and violations.
The new law requires employers to provide notice within one business day to employees who have been exposed to COVID-19 at their worksite and report to the California Department of Public Health if an outbreak occurs. The reason that we had to introduce this is because we had lots of employers who were not notifying their employees when they had been exposed to someone who was positive for COVID-19,â said bill author Assemblymember Eloise Reyes. It seemed like it was common sense, but it wasn t happening.
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In a year of radical upheaval, this much has remained constant: California’s elected representatives still aren’t all that representative.
For the third time in six years, CalMatters has compiled the demographics and self-identifications of the state’s legislators and constitutional officers.They still don’t much resemble the state they represent although they’re getting closer. This year doesn’t quite break the record for number of women in the Legislature (it’s still only 32%) but voters elected a 25-year-old and the Legislature’s first openly bisexual member (both are the same person).
2021 new laws | Here is what s new in California workplace laws
California is requiring employers for alerting workers when an employee tests positive and that corporation to have board members from an unrepresented community. Author: Joseph Daniels (ABC10) Updated: 6:32 PM PST January 1, 2021
CALIFORNIA, USA As a year of uncertainty has finally come to an end, 2021 has brought something that everyone can count on: new state laws.
Some of the new laws include one that will require employers to alert their employees when another worker tests positive for COVID-19. Another expands on a list of contract workers who are exempted from a law that would treat them as full-time workers.