BILL NUMBER: AB 305	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gonzalez

                        FEBRUARY 12, 2015

   An act to amend Section 1174 of the Labor Code, relating to
employment.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 305, as introduced, Gonzalez. Employers: payroll records.
   Existing law requires an employer to furnish to the Industrial
Welfare Commission, upon request, reports or information regarding
the wages, hours, and other information that the employer is required
by law to keep regarding his or her employees. A violation of this
provision is a crime.
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to this provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 1174 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
   1174.   Every   Any  person employing
labor in this state shall:
   (a) Furnish to the commission, at its request, reports or
information that the commission requires to carry out this chapter.
The reports and information shall be verified if required by the
commission or any member thereof.
   (b) Allow any member of the commission or the employees of the
Division of Labor Standards Enforcement free access to the place of
business or employment of the person to secure any information or
make any investigation that they are authorized by this chapter to
ascertain or make. The commission may inspect or make excerpts,
relating to the employment of employees, from the books, reports,
contracts, payrolls, documents, or papers of the person.
   (c) Keep a record showing the names and addresses of all employees
employed and the ages of all minors.
   (d) Keep, at a central location in the state or at the plants or
establishments at which employees are employed, payroll records
showing the hours worked daily by and the wages paid to, and the
number of piece-rate units earned by and any applicable piece rate
paid to, employees employed at the respective plants or
establishments. These records shall be kept in accordance with rules
established for this purpose by the commission, but in any case shall
be kept on file for not less than three years. An employer shall not
prohibit an employee from maintaining a personal record of hours
worked, or, if paid on a piece-rate basis, piece-rate units earned.