Local government: overtime enforcement.

Existing law authorizes the Labor Commissioner, who is the Chief of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement within Department of Industrial Relations, to issue a citation upon determining that a person had paid or caused to be paid a wage for overtime work in violation of those provisions relating to working hours, any provision regulating hours and days of work in any order of the Industrial Welfare Commission, or any applicable local overtime law. Existing law authorizes the commissioner, in a jurisdiction where a local entity has the legal authority to issue a citation against an employer for a violation of any applicable local overtime law, on request from the local entity, to issue a citation against an employer for a violation of any applicable local overtime law if the local entity has not cited the employer for the same violation. Existing law prohibits a local entity from issuing a citation to the employer if the commissioner has already issued a citation to that employer for the same violation. Existing law provides specified civil penalties for violations of these provisions. This bill would increase the amount of those civil penalties for violations of these provisions.