California Labor Code 2693.1 – (a) Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the Department of …
(a) Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the Department of Industrial Relations shall establish and maintain a Garment Worker Wage Claim Pilot Program. The Department shall contract to provide resources to qualified organizations. The funds shall be used to increase the capacity and expertise of qualified organizations to improve the education of wage violations to garment workers and the securing of wage claims for garment workers who bring forward a wage claim pursuant to Section 2673.1. The program shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following:
(1) Education for garment workers including, but not limited to, minimum wage, overtime, sick leave, recordkeeping, wage adjudication, and retaliation.
Terms Used In California Labor Code 2693.1
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Department: means Department of Industrial Relations. See California Labor Code 19
(2) Direct assistance by a worker advocate to assist workers who seek to file a wage claim.
(3) Legal assistance to garment workers who seek to file a wage claim.
(b) All education and services provided in this section shall be at free and accessible to any garment worker in the State of California.
(c) For the purposes of this chapter, “qualified organization” means a legal aid or community-based nonprofit organization that has a minimum of five years experience working with garment workers, advocating on behalf of garment workers, and a successful record of winning wage claims on behalf of garment workers that have been filed with the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 78, Sec. 5. (AB 138) Effective July 16, 2021.)