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California Refinery and Chemical Plant Worker Safety Act of 1990 added section 7872 and 7873 to the Labor Code. On September 25, 1992, AB 2601 was signed into law. [20] It protected gays and lesbians against employment discrimination. [21] California was the seventh state to add sexual orientation to laws barring job discrimination. [22]
Washington state only requires break rooms at workplaces where workers could be exposed to toxic substances. The law states that "If the workplace exposes employees to injurious dusts or other toxic materials, the employer must provide a separate lunchroom unless it is convenient for employees to lunch away from the premises." [25]
As of 2017, twenty-six states in the United States do not carry break laws in their legislature, such as Texas and Florida. [12] The state of California requires that both meal and rest breaks be given to employees; workers in New York must be given meal breaks, but rest breaks are not required. [12]
As of December 22, 2015, Cal/OSHA employed 195 field enforcement officers, 25 of whom received bilingual pay for using a second language at least 10% of the time on the job. [3] The organization offers training materials and paid training time to staff interested in learning other languages and encourages bilingual applicants to apply.
In place of lunch breaks, there has been a rise in what the 2024 Lunch Report calls "little treat culture," influenced heavily by the TikTok trend of the same name. According to ezCater, 87% of ...
A Cal-OSHA field inspector issued $43,315 in fines against the contractor Luis Moncada, an online OSHA incident summary says. “The house had no power, so a gas-powered sprayer had to be used ...
The Cal-OSHA branch that enforces workplace standards is fully funded outside of the state’s General Fund, and relies predominantly on a combination of federal grants, industry fees and employer ...
The California Codes are 29 legal codes enacted by the California State Legislature, which, alongside uncodified acts, form the general statutory law of California.The official codes are maintained by the California Office of Legislative Counsel for the legislature.