Two labor and employment bills identified as job killers by the California Chamber of Commerce won approval this week in the first Senate committees to consider them.
The Assembly Judiciary Committee approved SB 365 (Wiener: D-San Francisco), which discriminates against the use of arbitration agreements by requiring trial courts to continue trial proceedings during any appeal regarding the denial of a motion to compel, undermining arbitration and divesting courts of their inherent right to stay proceedings.
The Assembly Labor and Employment Committee passed SB 723 (Durazo; D-Los Angeles), which imposes an onerous and stringent process for specific employers to return employees to the workforce for specified industries, including hotels and restaurants that have been disproportionally impacted by this pandemic, and removes guardrails on existing law by making the mandate permanent and significantly broadening the applicability of the law.
https://calchamberalert.com/2023/06/16/job-killer-bills-move-thru-senate-policy-committees/
