CA AB 288

enacted

Employment: labor organization and unfair practices.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Existing law declares the public policy of the state regarding labor organization, including, among other things, that it is necessary for a worker to have full freedom of association, self-organization, and designation of representatives of their own choosing, to negotiate the terms and conditions of their employment, and to be free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of employers of labor, or their agents, in the designation of such representatives or in self-organization or in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection. Existing law establishes the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) in state government as a means of resolving disputes and enforcing the statutory duties and rights of specified public employers and employees under various acts regulating collective bargaining. Under existing law, PERB has the power and duty to investigate an unfair practice charge and to determine whether the charge is justified and the appropriate remedy for the unfair practice. Existing law, the federal National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) , establishes a comprehensive statutory scheme regulating unfair labor practices on the part of employers and labor organizations in industries affecting interstate commerce, and vests in the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) the power to conduct elections to determine employee representatives and to prevent unfair labor practices affecting commerce. Existing law, the California Public Records Act, requires that public records, as defined, be available to the public for inspection and made promptly available to any person. This bill would expand PERB's jurisdiction by authorizing a worker, to petition PERB to protect and enforce prescribed rights under specified circumstances, including if the worker is employed in a position subject to the NLRA but the NLRB has expressly or impliedly ceded jurisdiction. The bill would authorize PERB to, among other things, decide unfair labor practice cases pursuant to a specified timeline and order all appropriate relief for a violation, including civil penalties, as prescribed. In order to pursue relief from PERB, the bill would require a covered worker or their representative to file an unfair practice charge or petition that includes specified information, including, where applicable, the original charge or petition filed with the NLRB. The bill would require PERB to hold the supporting documentation and evidence confidential and maintain it as part of its investigatory file and would exempt this documentation and evidence from the California Public Records Act. If PERB determines, among other things, it has insufficient resources to process certain cases or doing so would prevent it from meeting specified statutory deadlines, the bill would require PERB to process and prioritize charges, as specified. The bill would also establish the Public Employment Relations Board Enforcement Fund (fund) in the State Treasury, would require the above-described civil penalties to be deposited into the fund, and would make moneys in the fund available upon appropriation by the Legislature to PERB for the purpose of administering the above-specified provisions. The bill would authorize PERB to rely on its own decisions and precedent under the NLRA and would authorize review of its decisions by a state appellate court, as specified. Existing law, the Alatorre-Zenovich-Dunlap-Berman Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975, grants agricultural employees the right to form and join labor organizations and engage in collective bargaining, as specified, and prohibits agricultural employers and labor organizations from engaging in unfair labor practices. Those provisions establish the Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB) and empower the ALRB to prevent any person from engaging in those practices. Existing law establishes various definitions for these purposes. Existing law requires the ALRB to follow applicable precedents of the NLRA. This bill would specify that the ALRB has exclusive jurisdiction in all phases of the administration of the act, and to determine whether any person or entity meets one or more of those definitions. The bill would instead authorize the board to follow applicable precedents of the NLRA, but would not obligate the board to follow precedents where the ALRB deems it inappropriate to do so. This bill would make related findings and declarations and would make its provisions severable. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.

Introduced: 2025-03-24
Status date: —
Latest action: 2025-09-30 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 139, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Committees

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Action timeline

2025-01-22
Read first time. To print.
reading-1
2025-01-23
From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
2025-02-10
Referred to Com. on P. E. & R.
referral-committee
2025-03-24
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. E. & R. Read second time and amended.
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-03-25
Re-referred to Com. on P. E. & R.
referral-committee
2025-04-02
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on L. & E.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-04-21
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended.
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-04-22
Re-referred to Com. on L. & E.
referral-committee
2025-04-22
Coauthors revised.
2025-04-24
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-05-07
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
referral-committee
2025-05-23
Coauthors revised.
2025-05-23
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 23).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-05-27
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-06-02
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 2. Page 1818.)
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2025-06-03
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-06-11
Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD.
referral-committee
2025-06-18
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 18).
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2025-06-19
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
amendment-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-06-26
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2025-07-09
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-08-18
In committee: Referred to suspense file.
referral-committee
2025-08-29
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 29).
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2025-08-29
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
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2025-09-02
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-09-05
Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
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2025-09-08
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-09-09
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 10. Page 2729.).
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-09-09
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-09-10
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 5. Page 3194.).
amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-09-22
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
executive-receipt
2025-09-30
Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature
2025-09-30
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 139, Statutes of 2025.
became-law

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Votes

Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Labor and Employment]
2025-04-02 · pass · 6-0
Member-level votes (7)
- McKinnor: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Lackey: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-23 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Lee: yes
- Flora: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Ward: yes
- Chen: yes
- Kalra: yes
Do pass.
2025-05-23 · pass · 12-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Calderon: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Hart: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Solache: yes
- Ta: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Fong: yes
- Sanchez: other
- Dixon: other
- Tangipa: other
AB 288 McKinnor Assembly Third Reading
2025-06-02 · pass · 68-2
Member-level votes (79)
- Sanchez: other
- Addis: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Lee: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Krell: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Ward: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Patel: yes
- Solache: yes
- Chen: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Papan: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Fong: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Soria: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Davies: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Haney: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Hart: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Berman: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Ta: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Flora: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Bains: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Ellis: no
- DeMaio: no
- Gallagher: other
- Lackey: other
- Tangipa: other
- Jeff Gonzalez: other
- Hadwick: other
- Macedo: other
- Castillo: other
- Dixon: other
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary]
2025-06-18 · pass · 4-1
Member-level votes (5)
- Cortese: yes
- Laird: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Strickland: no
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-07-08 · pass · 11-1
Member-level votes (13)
- Arreguín: yes
- Allen: yes
- Stern: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Laird: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Niello: no
- Valladares: other
Placed on suspense file
2025-08-18 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Richardson: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Grayson: yes
Do pass as amended
2025-08-29 · pass · 5-2
Member-level votes (7)
- Richardson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Dahle: no
- Seyarto: no
3rd Reading AB288 McKinnor et al. By Umberg
2025-09-09 · pass · 30-10
Member-level votes (40)
- Richardson: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Stern: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Becker: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Laird: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Limón: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Allen: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Niello: no
- Ochoa Bogh: no
- Dahle: no
- Grove: no
- Jones: no
- Valladares: no
- Seyarto: no
- Strickland: no
- Choi: no
- Alvarado-Gil: no
AB 288 McKinnor Concurrence in Senate Amendments
2025-09-11 · pass · 67-5
Member-level votes (80)
- Ahrens: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Addis: yes
- Ward: yes
- Haney: yes
- Hart: yes
- Fong: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Bains: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Soria: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Berman: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Papan: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Lee: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Solache: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Davies: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Krell: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Patel: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Chen: yes
- Flora: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Johnson: no
- Macedo: no
- Sanchez: no
- Ellis: no
- DeMaio: no
- Dixon: other
- Hadwick: other
- Tangipa: other
- Lackey: other
- Gallagher: other
- Jeff Gonzalez: other
- Castillo: other
- Ta: other

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