2025 Pro-Worker Bills Signed in California

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The Inland Empire Labor Council is proud to say that we participated in the California Federation of Labor & the State Building & Construction Trades Council of California’s Joint Legislative Conference, Lobby Day, and pre-Primary Convention. Below you’ll see the fruits of previous years’ legislative conferences: Pro-worker legislation! Let’s get more passed in this next year.

Signed Senate Bills

  • SB 294 (Reyes): Notice of Workers’ Rights
    Requires employers annually to provide workers with a notice of their state and federal labor and civil rights and that employers notify a worker’s emergency contact should the worker be detained as part of a law enforcement action.
    Co-Sponsored by the California Federation of Labor Unions, Service Employees International Union California, and Central American Resource Center Los Angeles.
  • SB 513 (Durazo): Training Records
    Requires employers to keep information on training in personnel records and allows current and former workers to access those records. 
    Sponsored by the United Steelworkers District 12.
  • SB 809 (Durazo): Truck Driver Misclassification
    Ensures that truck drivers are properly classified as employees and reimbursed for expenses.
    Sponsored by the California Teamsters.
  • SB 838 (Durazo): Hotel Development Accountability
    Closes the loophole that allowed hotels to get streamlined approval as part of housing developments.
    Sponsored by UNITE HERE International Union.
  • SB 840 (Limón): High-Speed Rail Funding
    Allocates $1 billion to fund high-speed rail construction.
    Supported by the California Federation of Labor Unions and State Building and Construction Trades Council of California.

Signed Assembly Bills

  • AB 283 (Haney): IHSS Employer-Employee Relations Act
    Would have enabled IHSS workers and their unions to collectively bargain with the state, not individual counties.
    Sponsored by the United Domestic Workers/AFSCME Local 3930 and Service Employees International Union California.
  • AB 288 (McKinnor): California Right to Organize Act
    Expands the authority of the State to protect the right to organize in the private sector when the federal government is unable or unwilling.
    Co-Sponsored by the California Federation of Labor Unions, California Teamsters, International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Western States Section, and Service Employees International Union California.
  • AB 316 (Krell): AI Liability Protections
    Prohibits developers and deployers from asserting that an AI product acted autonomously as a legal defense.
    Supported by the California Federation of Labor Unions and California Nurses Association/National Nurses United.
  • AB 339 (Ortega): Public Sector Contracting Out Notice
    Requires local government to give the union advance notice of RFPs or contract renewals for private contractors.
    Co-Sponsored by the California Federation of Labor Unions, Service Employees International Union California, and American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees California.
  • AB 394 (Wilson): Transit Worker Safety
    Extends existing penalties for battery of transit employees to cover more transit workers.
    Sponsored by the Amalgamated Transit Union.
  • AB 538 (Berman): Public Works Prevailing Wage
    Increases transparency of payment of prevailing wage on public workers projects to improve compliance.
    Sponsored by the California-Nevada Conference of Operating Engineers.
  • AB 692 (Kalra): Ban Worker Training Repayment
    Prohibits workplace training repayment contracts that require workers to pay back the cost to their employer.
    Co-Sponsored by the California Federation of Labor Unions and California Nurses Association/National Nurses United.
  • AB 858 (Lee): Hospitality Worker Recall Rights
    Extends the sunset to ensure hospitality workers have the right to return to their jobs after shutdowns.
    Co-Sponsored by the California Federation of Labor Unions and UNITE HERE International Union.
  • AB 1207 (Irwin): Cap and Invest
    Reauthorizes the cap and invest program for clean infrastructure and transportation.
  • AB 1340 (Berman/Wicks): TNC Drivers Labor Relations Act
    Grants drivers for transportation network companies to self-organize and collectively bargain.
    Sponsored by the Service Employees International Union California.
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