Existing law generally grants to the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, within the Department of Industrial Relations, jurisdiction over every employment and place of employment necessary to adequately enforce and administer all laws, standards, and orders. Existing law creates the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board within the Labor and Workforce Development Agency and, among other things, requires it to adopt standards developed by the division relating to workplace violence prevention plans at hospitals.
The California Constitution establishes the State Personnel Board and requires the board to, among other things,
enforce the civil service statutes, prescribe probationary periods and classifications, adopt rules authorized by statute, and review disciplinary actions. Existing law establishes the Department of Human Resources (CalHR) and provides that, subject to the requirements of the California Constitution, it succeeds to and is vested with the duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction exercised by the board as its designee with respect to the board’s administrative and ministerial functions.
This bill would require the Labor and Workforce Development Agency CalHR to make a quarterly report regarding assaults, as defined, against employees to the Labor Commissioner and any bargaining unit within the agency within 30 calendar days of
the last day of the quarter with respect to assaults that occurred during that quarter and, on or before January 30, 2026, and annually thereafter, to the Legislature and the chairs of the Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review and the Assembly Committee on Budget with respect to assaults that occurred during the preceding calendar year. The bill would require that report to include certain information with respect to any assault that occurred during the previous reporting period, including the date of the assault and the job classification of any affected represented employee.
Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and
the need for protecting that interest.
This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.