County of Los Angeles: limited-term law clerk.

The Trial Court Employment Protection and Governance Act establishes a trial court employee personnel system that provides authority to hire trial court personnel, regulates the classification and compensation of trial court employees, labor relations, and personnel files, and requires each trial court to establish a system of employment selection and advancement and an employment protection system. The act defines the term "trial court employee" as a person who is paid from the trial court's budget, as specified, and is subject to the trial court's right to control the manner and means of his or her work because of the trial court's authority to hire, supervise, discipline, and terminate employment. In defining this term, the act prohibits the employment of a temporary employee in the trial court for a period exceeding 180 calendar days, except for court reporters under certain conditions. This bill would prohibit, in the Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles, the employment of a limited-term law clerk in the trial court for a period exceeding 180 calendar days. The bill would provide that the law clerk is a trial court employee if he or she is employed for more than 180 calendar days. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles.