Employee Relations
For more information, contact Eraina Ortega at 916/327-7500, ext. 521, or eortega@counties.org, or Faith L. Conley at 916/327-7500, ext. 522, or fconley@counties.org.
Workers’ Compensation
AB 2181 (Ruskin) – Request for Comment
As Amended June 16, 2008
AB 2181, by Assembly Member Ira Ruskin, would require the Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) to develop and publish guides for employers and employees regarding the return-to-work process and make them available on the Department of Industrial Relations Web site. AB 2181 will also require that upon the last payment of temporary disability to an injured worker, the injured worker must be advised of the availability of the return-to-work process.
This bill will delete the requirement of filing an occupational injury or illness report with the Division of Labor Statistics and Research and instead require a self-insured employer, the state or the insurer of an insured employee to file the report in an electronic form to the Workers’ Compensation Information System, to be administered by the DWC.
AB 2181 will be heard next in the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Retirement Benefits
AB 1626 (Mullin) – Support
As Amended June 16, 2008
AB 1626, by Assembly Member Gene Mullin, will require that all retirement systems established pursuant to the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (1937 Act) must act in accordance with federal law.
The Internal Revenue Service recently announced plans to put more focus on public retirement plans, prompting the possibility of future changes to the 1937 Act. As such changes would require legislative action, AB 1626 simplifies this process by amending statute in order to be in compliance with federal tax law.
AB 1626 is currently awaiting a vote on the Senate Floor.
PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION
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