Posted on May 3rd, 2022
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What’s up fellow entrepreneurs today. I want to talk about the wonderful work done by the California chamber of commerce to prevent legislation at deems job killers. But first as always, I’m an attorney, but I’m not your attorney. So please seek out competent legal advice for your specific question or concern, right?
Let’s get into this. The California chamber of commerce released its 2022 job killer list last week. This annual list has had a successful record of preventing, a large number of legislation, pieces of legislation that is deemed bad, for business in California.
I know there are several terrible pieces of legislation that get every year that hurt small businesses, but without Cal chamber and its annual list, it likely would be much worse.
The small business hero of the day is Cal chamber president and CEO, Jennifer Barrera, and a very poignant and insightful statement about this year’s list.
She said, California companies are the economic engine that drives innovation and job creation in our state and are responsible for the record revenues.
The state is currently experiencing yet the bills on this year’s job killer list reflect a lack of appreciation of the economic realities and regulatory challenges employers and especially small business employers face as they continue to merge from this, from the impact of this pandemic, a shrinking workforce, coupled with California’s oppressive legal climate pension for overregulation and continued push for even higher taxes will hamper the ability of California companies to remain competitive in the future.
This year’s job killer list highlights policies that will hurt job creation and will shut down or reduce investment in our economy. Me very well said, Ms. Bere.
Now let’s look at the bills that made the prestigious list and what Cal chamber says about each first, AB 2095, sponsored by representative Cal Democrat from San Jose is a bill that chambers calling the unfair denial of state opportunities.
The chamber says this bill places, numerous administrative burdens on employers by requiring annual reporting of wage and our data and employee benefits on an employer’s entire United States workforce that will unfairly criticize employers for lawful conduct by publishing the data on the labor and workforce development agency website and using such data it to rank employers and deny them state opportunities and will subject employees to frivolous litigation and settlement demands AB 2, 180 2, sponsored by representative Ws. Democrat Oakland is a bill.
The chambers calling that expansion of duty to accommodate employees and litigation under fee hub. Bill. The chamber says this bill impose new burdens on employers to accommodate any employee with family responsibilities, which would essentially include a new uncap protected leave for employees to re request time off. And it exposes employers to costly litigation under fi by asserting that any adverse employment action was in relation to the employee’s family responsibilities rather than a violation of employment policies, SB 1 0 44, sponsored by representative de Rozo Democrat.
Los Angeles is a bill. The chambers calling the state of emergency bill. The chamber says this bill allows employee is to leave work or refuse to show up to work. If an employee subjectively feels unsafe regardless of existing health and safety standards, or whether employ the employer has provided health and safety protection and subjects employers to costly PGA lawsuits.
If they dispute the employee’s decisions or need, uh, or need to have another employee, a take over any job duties, SB 1, 1 62, sponsored by representatives Lyman Democrat Goleta is a bill. The chamber is calling the publication of pay data.
The chamber says this bill encourages litigation against employers based on the publication of broad unreliable data by the collected by the state it under mind’s employer’s ability to hire imposes administrative on record keeping requirements that are impossible to implement in subject’s employers to a private right of action and penalties under PA AB 2289, sponsored by representative Lee Democrat.
San Jose is a bill. The chambers calling the wealth tax bill. The chamber says this seeks to impose a massive tax increase upon all forms of personal property or wealth, despite California already having the highest income tax in the country.
This tax increase will drive high income earners and job creators out of the state. As well as the revenue they contribute to the general fund AB 1 70 71 sponsored by represent war Democrat. San Diego is a bill, the chambers calling the targeted tax on certain home sellers. Bill.
The chamber says this bill seeks to impose a tax. In addition to the capital gains tax of 25% on the profits from a home resold within three years after it is purchased, the tax rate is reduced on a sliding scale for seven years thereafter.
This will worsen housing unaffordability and constrain the already limited housing supply SB 1, 3 0 1 sponsored by representative Becker, uh, Democrat Menlo park is a bill.
The chambers calling the fossil fuel investment surcharge bill. The chamber says this bill arbitrarily raises on companies that invest in fossil fuel businesses based upon the financing amount.
This adds another layer of expenses onto the fossil fuel industry that will significantly increase the cost of doing business. Thereby increasing prices paid by consumers for goods and services in California. Woo.
All right. AB 1 0 0 UN sponsored by representative Garcia and representative Christina Democrats, Los Angeles is a bill, the chambers calling a bill that expands C E Q a and Hertz housing.
The chamber says this bill creates new highly subjective, non quantifiable and litigation BA standards in the California environmental quality act will threaten California’s economic recovery and ability to construct much needed housing.
It also removes local government discretion regarding how to analyze and mitigate proposed project impacts. Thereby making projects more expensive, harder to build and more likely to be, be thrown into courts by NIMBY opposition, SB 1, 180 9, sponsored by representative wa Kowski Democrat.
Fremont is a bill, the chambers calling the new private right of action for biometric information. The chamber says this bill creates legal liability for businesses, large and small potentially in the millions or 10 millions of dollars while not providing any exception such as for the use of biometric data for safety, security, or other reasonable purposes.
This bill also imposes new untenable restrictions on the use and disclosure of biometric information in a thinly veiled attempt to undermine the California privacy act, uh, rights limited private right of action for data reaches SB two 13 is sponsored by representative Cortez Democrat. San Jose is a bill.
The chambers calling the workers’ compensation presumption for hospital employees. The chamber says this bill exam expands the costly presumption of injury.
It significantly increases workers’ compensation costs for public and private hospitals by presuming certain diseases and injuries are caused by the workplace and established as an extremely concerning precedent for expanding presumptions into the private sector.
All right, AB 2 7 64, sponsored by representative NAZA Democrat van is a bill, the chambers calling the livestock band. The chamber says this bill band’s new or expanded commercial animal feeding and processing operations for meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy it’ll increase food prices for California’s and forced food to be imported from out of the state to meet consumer demand.
So those are the bills that made this year’s job killer list. And the reason Cal chamber gave for adding them to their list. Wow, that was a lot and I know it was fast, but, um, I hope everybody was able to keep up.
Hopefully none of these pass. Until next time be productive.
