Labor Commissioner: appeals.

Existing law authorizes the Labor Commissioner to investigate employee complaints and hold administrative hearings to decide disputes over unpaid wages and other issues between employers and employees. Existing law also permits a party who loses at an administrative hearing conducted by the Labor Commissioner to file an appeal in the superior court. An employer filing an appeal must post a bond with the court in the amount of the judgment rendered in the administrative hearing. This bill would expressly state that an employer wishing to appeal an administrative judgment must first post a bond.