Property service worker protection.

Existing law establishes the Department of Industrial Relations within the Labor and Workforce Development Agency and charges the department with specified functions, including fostering, promoting, and developing the welfare of wage earners in California. The department consists of specified divisions, boards, and commissions, including the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, which is headed by the Chief of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, known as the Labor Commissioner. Existing law requires every employer of janitors to register annually with the Labor Commissioner and requires the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement to enforce the provisions relating to the registration of those employers. Existing law requires an employer to use a qualified organization to provide a sexual violence and harassment prevention training, as specified, and to pay the qualified organization $65 per participant, except as specified. This bill would instead require the employer, until January 1, 2026, to pay the qualified organization $200 per participant for training sessions having fewer than 10 participants, and $80 per participant for training sessions with 10 or more participants, except as specified. Each year thereafter, the employer would be required to increase the rate of payment, as specified. This bill would require the department to contract with the University of California, Los Angeles Labor Center to conduct a study evaluating opportunities to improve worker safety and safeguard employment rights in the janitorial industry. The bill would authorize the university to subcontract the responsibility for conducting the study to other specified entities. The bill would require the University of California, Los Angeles Labor Center and its subcontractors, if any, to issue a report no later than May 1, 2026, that includes certain information about the janitorial industry. The bill would further require the department, no later than June 15, 2025, to convene an advisory committee consisting of representatives from specified state agencies, labor and management groups in the janitorial industry, and other relevant subject matter experts to make recommendations regarding the scope of the above-described study, as prescribed. The bill would require the department, on or before May 15, 2026, to forward the completed report to the members of the advisory committee and specified legislative committee chairs. The bill would repeal the above-described contract and reporting provisions on January 1, 2027. The bill would make various other technical and conforming changes.