Seyfarth Synopsis:
Headlining
the number of employment-related bills California legislators
introduced by the February 19th deadline are those that would
extend COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave and provide other
leaves and accommodations.
After last year s pandemic-caused truncation of the 2020 legislative
session in which the governor signed only 372 new laws, the fewest
since 1967 many expected the introduction of a large number
of bills. Yet only 1,560 bills were introduced in the Assembly this year, the
lowest number in six years though there is no shortage of
labor and employment-related bills.
Below, we summarize the most significant labor and employment
bills introduced, which help mark the legislative playing field for
Nursing Home Workers Died of COVID, Failed to Tell Watchdogs
California’s health department regularly updates a list of COVID infections and deaths at nursing homes. But only half of listed facilities where employees have died from the disease have reported the death to Cal/OSHA. by Jason Pohl, Dale Kasler, and Ryan Sabalow, The Sacramento Bee / February 18, 2021 TNS
(TNS) - Feb. 18 A year into the pandemic, California s workplace safety watchdog doesn t know how many nursing home workers have contracted COVID-19 on the job and died, a Sacramento Bee review of state records shows.
California s health department regularly updates a list of COVID-19 infections and deaths at nursing homes. But only about half of those listed facilities where employees have died from the disease have bothered to report the death to Cal/ OSHA, the agency in charge of enforcing worker safety, according to the state records.
California nursing home workers died of COVID. The industry failed to tell state watchdogs
Sacramento Bee 2/18/2021 Jason Pohl, Dale Kasler, and Ryan Sabalow, The Sacramento Bee
Feb. 18 A year into the pandemic, California s workplace safety watchdog still doesn t know how many nursing home workers have contracted COVID-19 on the job and died, a Sacramento Bee review of state records shows.
California s health department regularly updates a list of COVID-19 infections and deaths at nursing homes. But only about half of those listed facilities have bothered to report the death to Cal/OSHA, the agency in charge of enforcing worker safety, according to the state records.
California COVID-19 Workers’ Comp Claim Volume Trending up Again December 22, 2020
The CWCI reviewed claims reported to the state Division of Workers’ Compensation as of Dec. 14.
Updated figures show that the number of COVID-19 workers’ comp claims reported to the state each month rose steadily from January through July of this year, when it peaked at 14,925 cases, then tailed off sharply at the end of the summer, dropping 56.5% in August and then falling another 34.7% in September.
The Dec. 14 tally noted 4,628 COVID-19 claims from October and 10,395 claims from November, bringing the total number of reported virus claims through November to 65,165, or nearly one out of every 8 California workers’ comp claims reported this year.