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| Volume 2, Issue 5 |
Legislative Watch List 2008 Read below for the Chamber's positions on various legislative bills.ADA REFORM/ LAWSUIT ABUSE:SUPPORT: **AB 2533 (Keene) Disability access: remedies, known as the ‘Access and Opportunity to Cure Act of 2008. Requires the disabled person, alleging the ADA access violation, to deliver a written notice to the business or individual responsible for the violation before filing a complaint; the person or business being served the violation must in good faith begin addressing the violation within 30 days.
**SB 1608 (Corbett) Disabled persons: equal access rights: civil actions. Comprehensive reform that increases public access for individuals with disabilities while reducing unwarranted litigation, including by encouraging use of state-certified disability access specialists and establishing court procedure for early judicial review of lawsuit claims.
**SB 1766 (McClintock) Disability: access. Would grant a business six months to correct ADA access violations upon being notified of the violation.
EMPLOYMENT AND HUMAN RESOURCES: SUPPORT: *SB 1539 (Calderon) Meal periods. Amends Section 512 of the Labor Code, relating to employment meal & rest periods. Clarifies when an employer and employee can enter into an on-duty meal period agreement, and addresses collective bargaining agreements with respect to meal periods.
AB 2716 (Ma) Employment: paid sick leave. Unreasonably expands employers’ costs and liability for a new protected and paid sick leave for employees.
SB 1661 (Kuehl) Unemployment compensation: family leave: good cause. Proposes to increase the cost of doing business for small employers by creating a new eligibility requirement for employees to receive unemployment insurance benefits.
SB 1717 (Perata) Permanent Disability Workers Comp Rolls back the historic workers` compensation reforms of 2004 and increases workers` compensation costs for insured and self-insured employers by doubling permanent disability indemnity benefits paid to injured workers by 2011. *Board of Directors action taken **Board action pending No designation – meets Chamber Legislative Guidelines
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