Bill Text: CA AB11 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered

California Assembly Bill 11 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Employees: reserve peace officers and emergency rescue personnel.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-08-19 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 120, Statutes of 2013. [AB11 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB11-Chaptered.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 11	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  120
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  AUGUST 19, 2013
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  AUGUST 19, 2013
	PASSED THE SENATE  JULY 8, 2013
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  APRIL 18, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 28, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Logue

                        DECEMBER 3, 2012

   An act to amend Section 230.4 of the Labor Code, relating to
employees.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 11, Logue. Employees: reserve peace officers and emergency
rescue personnel.
   Existing law requires an employer employing 50 or more employees
to permit an employee who is a volunteer firefighter to take
temporary leaves of absence, not to exceed an aggregate of 14 days
per calendar year, for the purpose of engaging in fire or law
enforcement training.
   This bill would revise these provisions to require those employers
to permit an employee who performs emergency duty as a volunteer
firefighter, reserve peace officer, or as emergency rescue personnel,
as defined, to take the leave of absence described above for the
purpose of engaging in fire, law enforcement, or emergency rescue
training.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 230.4 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
   230.4.  (a) An employee who performs duty as a volunteer
firefighter, a reserve peace officer, or as emergency rescue
personnel, as defined in Section 230.3, and who works for an employer
employing 50 or more employees, shall be permitted to take temporary
leaves of absence, not to exceed an aggregate of 14 days per
calendar year, for the purpose of engaging in fire, law enforcement,
or emergency rescue training.
   (b) An employee who works for an employer employing 50 or more
employees who is discharged, threatened with discharge, demoted,
suspended, or in any other manner discriminated against in the terms
and conditions of employment by his or her employer because the
employee has taken time off to engage in fire, law enforcement, or
emergency rescue training as provided in subdivision (a), is entitled
to reinstatement and reimbursement for lost wages and work benefits
caused by the acts of the employer.
   (c) An employee seeking reinstatement and reimbursement pursuant
to this section may file a complaint with the Division of Labor
Standards Enforcement in accordance with Section 98.7, and upon
receipt of this type of complaint, the Labor Commissioner shall
proceed as provided in that section.