The only problem with holding a contest to decide the worst bill introduced in the Legislature this year is: How do you pick just one?
Well, I have a contender for you!
AB 5, authored by Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez-Fletcher (D-San Diego) and Assemblymember Ash Kalra (D-San Jose) prohibits California businesses with as few as 10 employees from hiring part-time help until those work hours have been offered to existing employees.
Under this bill, if a company has offices in Northern and Southern California and the office in Irvine has a growing workload and needs to hire extra help they would be precluded from doing so until the extra hours were offered to existing employees in Lodi. Yes, this is an actual bill and two Legislators put their names on it.
Even if an employee has told their employer they are not interested in extra hours or are not available on the day or time the extra hours are available, under AB 5 the work must be offered to them.
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