Employment: displaced workers.

Existing law establishes the Displaced Janitor Opportunity Act, which requires contractors and subcontractors, as defined, that are awarded contracts or subcontracts to provide janitorial or building maintenance services at a particular jobsite or sites, to retain, for a period of 60 days, certain employees who were employed at that site by the previous contractor or subcontractor, and offered continued employment if their performance during that 60-day period is satisfactory. Existing law authorizes an employee who was not retained, or the employee's agent, to bring an enforcement action in a court of competent jurisdiction, as specified. Existing law charges the Labor Commissioner, as Chief of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, with enforcing these provisions. Existing law defines "awarding authority" to mean any person that awards or otherwise enters into contracts for janitorial or building maintenance services performed within the State of California, including any subcontracts for janitorial or building maintenance services. This bill would rename the act the Displaced Janitor and Hotel Worker Opportunity Act and would extend the provisions of the act to hotel workers. The bill would redefine "awarding authority" under the act to include any person that awards or otherwise enters into contracts for hotel services, which include guest service, as defined, food and beverage service, or cleaning service, performed within the state, as specified. The bill would also redefine "employee" to include a person employed as a service employee of a contractor or subcontractor who works at least 15 hours per week and whose primary place of employment is in the state under a contract to provide janitorial or building maintenance services or hotel services.