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Effective Jan 1, 2023Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 808, Sec. 1. (AB 2849) Effective January 1, 2023.
- (a) There is hereby established in state government a panel to conduct a study regarding the creation of an Association of Cooperative Labor Contractors for the purpose of facilitating the growth of democratically run high-road cooperative labor contractors. The panel shall be assisted in this task by staff from the Labor and Workforce Development Agency or a subsidiary department thereof selected by the Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development.
(b) The panel shall consist of all of the following members:
- (1) The secretary or the director of a subsidiary department thereof selected by the secretary.
- (2) The Director of the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development.
- (3) An appointee of the Speaker of the Assembly.
- (4) An appointee of the President pro Tempore of the Senate.
- (5) A representative from the Future of Work Commission selected by the Governor.
- (c) In preparing the study, the panel may retain outside experts on high-road jobs, worker cooperatives, business formation, and other topics pertinent to the association.
(d) The study shall consider, at a minimum, how to do all of the following:
- (1) Advance the goals of the Future of Work Commission within the association.
- (2) Incentivize the growth of the association and its members.
- (3) Promote tenets of democratic worker control, including, but not limited to, uniform hiring and ownership eligibility criteria, worker-owners working most hours worked, most voting ownership interest being held by worker-owners, most voting power being held by worker-owners, and worker-owners exercising their vote on a one-person, one-vote basis.
- (4) Ensure that the association’s members offer high-road jobs, which include, but are not limited to, jobs with the right to organize and participate in labor organizations and jobs with minimum labor standards, such as a minimum wage in excess of the otherwise applicable minimum wage, a compensation ratio between the highest and lowest paid employees, minimum health expenditures, minimum retirement expenditures, and protections for individuals who have gone through the criminal justice system.
- (e) In preparing the study, the panel shall engage in a stakeholder process by which it consults with, at a minimum, organized labor, worker cooperatives, and business groups that can assess the opportunities and challenges associated with expanding workplace democracy in the major sectors of the economy throughout the state.
- (f) The panel shall complete the study and make it publicly available on the internet no later than June 30, 2024.