Pablo Neruda once said “you can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.” Likewise, California businesses’ protests against oppressive employment legislation don’t seem to stem the tide of the Legislature’s latest batch of anti-employer bills.

The California Chamber of Commerce has just identified a host of recently introduced “Job Killer” Bills pending before the California Legislature. This year’s list includes bills that would, among other things, inflate employer data reporting requirements and further expand the scope of the Fair Employment and Housing Act (“FEHA”). Here are a few from the list:

Data Reporting and Publication

• AB 2095 (Kalra; D-San Jose) Employment Information & Worker Metrics. Would require employers with 1,000 or more employees in California to annually submit wage and hour and employee benefits data regarding employers’ entire United States workforce. The Labor and Workforce Development Agency would then publish employers’ scores and rankings based on the collected statistics. This bill is similar to AB 1192 proposed last year by the same author, which was placed in the Assembly Inactive File at the author’s request in June 2021.
• SB 1162 (Limón; D-Goleta) Publication of Pay Data. Expands upon the legislation enacted two years ago requiring employers with 100 or more employees to report specific pay data annually. SB 1162 would require the pay data reports to be published on a public website and impose civil penalties...

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