Overview

California employers comply with the most stringent and complex labor laws in the nation and face some of the highest fines and penalties when they fail to do so. As a result, employers are calling for simplification in workplace rules and laws.

Related Business Issue: Managing Employees

Goals

Protect employers' rights to organize, direct and manage their companies' employees in an efficient, safe and productive manner.

Major Victories:

• Halted costly workplace mandates, such as legislation hampering employment decisions (AB 943), increasing agricultural costs (SB 789) and increasing workers’ compensation costs (AB 664).

Issue Summaries

Card Check
Position:
The CalChamber opposes the card check method of unionization and believes that workers are better protected from interference and intimidation by casting their vote privately with a secret ballot. To take away employees access to a private, secret ballot is undemocratic. Furthermore, the CalChamber remains opposed to any compromise proposal that creates similar legislation threatening the private ballot, imposing any form of binding interest arbitration or imposing unfair,
one-sided penalties. Card Check

Independent Contractors
Position: The CalChamber supports legislation designed to clarify, simplify and safeguard independent contractor tax status, opposes legislation that restricts or prohibits the use of independent contractors., oppose increasing fines and penalties for misclassifi cation, supports conformity between state and federal rules and regulations.. Independent Contractors

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