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AB 22 (Tony Mendoza-D-Artesia) - Employment: Credit Reports

This bill would prohibit an employer from obtaining a consumer credit report for a prospective employee unless the report is "substantially job-related".  "Job related" is defined to mean that the position of the person for whom the report is sought has access to money, other assets, or confidential information and is a managerial position.  "Managerial position" is defined (in part) as "a position held by a person who has authority , in the interest of the employer, to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline other employees...".  This prohibition will make it extremely difficult to verify information that the applicant wrote on his application for the position.  CIGA Position: OPPOSE.

AB 350 (Jose Solorio-D-Santa Ana) - Displaced Janitor Opportunity Act

Existing law, the Displaced Janitor Opportunity Act, required contractors and subcontractors that are awarded contracts or subcontracts by an awarding authority (i.e. business owner) to provide janitorial or building maintenance services at a particular job site, or sites, to retain, for a period of 60 days, certain employees who were employed at that site by the previous contractor or subcontractor.  AB 350 would rename the Act the Displaced Property Service Employee Opportunity Act and make the provisions of the act applicable to property services, which would include licensed security , window cleaning, and food cafeteria and dietary services in addition to the janitorial and building maintenance services.  It would also expand the retention period to 90 days, and the employees could only be terminated for cause, based on the performance or conduct of the employee.  The main reason that a business owner would change companies for the above services is poor performance, or increasing costs.  This bill would require a service-provider to hire the employees who worked on that site, even at the possibility of firing some of their current employees, and requires the business owner to recognize, and bargain with, any labor organization that was is place with the previous contractor.  CIGA Position: OPPOSE