New California laws going into effect in 2021

SF Gate ^ | December 25, 2020 | by Katie Dowd

[Oldeconomybuyer]

... Californians will barely notice most of the hundreds of new laws going into effect in 2021. But we've pulled out the most noteworthy, interesting and wide-reaching laws that will take effect in 2021.

- Assembly Bill 685 ensures the right of employees to quickly learn if COVID exposure has occurred in the workplace.

- After a number of high-profile deaths in police custody around the nation, California passed AB 1196, which prohibits police from using chokeholds and carotid holds.

- As part of California’s continued incremental raising of the minimum wage, it will go up to $14 per hour on Jan. 1 for employers with 26 or more employees.

- California’s firefighting force is bolstered by thousands of inmate firefighters who are barred from or have difficulty finding work as firefighters after their incarceration. AB 2147 seeks to rectify this situation.

- AB 979 already mandates that corporate boards of publicly held companies headquartered in California boards must appoint at least one director from an “underrepresented community.” That person can self-identify as Black, African American, Hispanic, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American, Native Hawaiian or Alaska Native, or gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.

- AB 3121 tasks the state to create a commission that will study the possibility of paying reparations for slavery.

- Thanks to AB 1867, food facility workers will be allowed to leave their work station every 30 minutes to wash their hands, or more often if needed.

- Starting in 2021, the California Family Rights Act will apply to most businesses in the state. The act provides for 12 weeks of job-protected leave for health issues.

- Through the passage of Proposition 17 in the most recent election, individuals on parole may now vote.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[mastertex]

I can hardly wait to move to California.......$hit.....why would anyone move to CA???? Only a FOOL. BYE

[dinodino]

I can’t wait to move out!

[ronnie raygun]

When do they start giving out flowers and singing songs of peace

[FlingWingFlyer]

AB979. Can they “self-identify” as being from a poor, Caucasian community? This sounds like minority supremacy.

[Disambiguator]

The board can be all white men, as long as one is willing to “self-identify” as some minority. Do you just have to fill out a form, or what?

[Karliner]

Has Sacto applied the same sex marriage? Oops the courts over turned the voters . Have they figured how to live live without Daylight Savings time? Oops, nope.

Has California done a dam*ed thing for the people?
Oh yes, here comes higher energy costs/climate change/Green New Deal, taxed water( drought is coming), the all devouring dragon of Single payer is burning up the soles of your feet. The laws for masks and staying inside”alone together( via WHO and others) is here.
Slavery is here as per”equity” and new and new roll outs in psychological terms to own you. Smile, the fifth largest economy in the world is doing great, except the state is in debt, the homeless are sick and drug addled and the churches are chained.
But you can get a cheap abortion and protest racism...reparations are coming.

[CIB-173RDABN]

Best example of what you get with a one party state and the media acting as a lap dog instead of as a watch dog.

The legislature is acting like an immature teen that that inherited wealth and has no clue where money comes from, only that they have a lot and they intend to spend it all.

[KarlInOhio]

- Assembly Bill 685 ensures the right of employees to quickly learn if COVID exposure has occurred in the workplace.

I would be very surprised if there isn't a law prohibiting employers from knowing about their employees medical conditions, thus they have to tell coworkers of the infected that they have been exposed without knowing or being allowed to inform anyone of that infection.

"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against— then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it.

You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted— and you create a nation of law-breakers— and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."

[glasseye]

I am here for my parents.
Used to be such a nice place, wonderful climate.
But the amoral have taken over, at least where I live.
Pity.

[Scrambler Bob]

I will identify as a black trans female.

And refuse to get a vaccine, because I might get pregnant.

That’s just to start.

[BradyLS]

We’re really reaching that end-game, aren’t we?

Heck, we may be in it!

[sima_yi]

That person can self-identify as Black, African American, Hispanic, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American, Native Hawaiian or Alaska Native, or gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.

I self identify as a Black, Spanish surnamed Native American lesbian woman trapped in the body of a cis-gendered, heteronormative white male of age and of size.

I am available to take a seat on the board immediately, if the company will meet my price.

It would be a bargain, with several diversity points for the price of one.

[AlaskaErik]

AB 979 already mandates that corporate boards of publicly held companies headquartered in California boards must appoint at least one director from an “underrepresented community.” That person can self-identify as Black, African American, Hispanic, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American, Native Hawaiian or Alaska Native, or gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.

Board members just need take an Ancestry.com DNA test and someone will will have some kind of minority DNA in them. This way the state can't refute their claim.

[max americana]

“.why would anyone move to CA???? Only a FOOL. BYE”

YOu do realize that FR is in Fresno CA, right??? So you’re saying the founder of FR is a fool? Another idiot shooting his mouth off as usual. Once your sh*tty state matches CA Freeper donations then STFU.

[sasquatch]

Re: AB979
‘That person can self-identify as’

There’s a definitive expression.
Just ask Elizabeth Warren.

[sasquatch]

Just mark ‘other’ for your replacement drivers license.

[The Westerner]

OMG, I Love particular quote from Atlas Shrugged!! Often I want to use it but don’t recall in those 1100 pages where that sequence occurs. Thank you. Was on a different thread today explaining her point from my own experience of the new electronic medical recording system for docs, an example of mind crushing bureaucrat rules!

[Don Corleone]

Board members just need take an Ancestry.com DNA test and someone will will have some kind of minority DNA in them. This way the state can't refute their claim.

I think 2 to the 10th is a mighty big number. Go back only 10 generations and everybody is somehow related to everyone else.

2 parents

2^10=20,000,000,000, or more than today's world population?

I'm not a math major so someone check that for me. Maybe we all can get a cut from "The Big Guy".