The close of the 2021 California legislative session brings forth a series of new wage and hour laws that impact employers and take effect on January 1, 2022.
Assembly Bill (AB) 286 addresses food delivery, including purchase prices and tip.
AB 286 amends the Fair Food Delivery Act of 2020, and (1) makes it unlawful for a food delivery platform to charge a customer any purchase price higher than the price posted on the food delivery platform’s internet website by the food facility at the time of the order, and (2) makes it unlawful for a food delivery platform to retain any portion of amounts designated as a tip or gratuity. The law requires a food delivery platform to pay the entire tip or gratuity for a delivery order to the person delivering the food or beverage, and to pay the entire tip or gratuity for a pickup order to the food facility.
AB 701 requires California warehouse distribution centers to disclose quotas to nonexempt employees upon hire or within thirty (30) days of the January 1, 2022 effective date.
Warehouse distribution centers will be required to provide nonexempt employees with a written description of each quota to which the employee is subject, including the number of tasks to be performed, or materials to be produced or handled, within the defined time period, and any potential adverse employment action that could result from failure to meet the quota.
AB 701 further provides that an employee shall not be required to meet a quota that prevents...
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