Public employees: retirement.

The Public Employees' Retirement Law creates the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) , which provides a defined benefit to its members based on age at retirement, service credit, and final compensation. Existing law requires an employer that fails to enroll an employee into membership in PERS at the time the employee becomes eligible, as specified, to pay arrears costs for member contributions and administrative costs of $500 as reimbursement to the system and prohibite the employer from passing those costs on to the employee. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.