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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]
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.
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]
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 ...
In place of lunch breaks, there has been a rise in "little treat culture," influenced by the TikTok trend of the same name. 98% of workers say breaks boost productivity, but most skip lunch due to ...
From 2017 to 2023, the number of field inspections conducted by the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, known as Cal/OSHA, dropped by nearly 30%, according to agency data.
The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) is a department of the government of the state of California which was initially created in 1927. [1] The department is currently part of the Cabinet-level California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, [2] and headquartered at the Elihu M. Harris State Office Building in Oakland.
In the United States, there is a history of denying workers the right to go to the toilet while on the job. [8] The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Agency has undone some of the business opposition to workers taking toilet breaks. OSHA rules indicate that all employees must be provided with toilet facilities.