290 | 2023 Cal-Peculiarities ©2023 Seyfarth Shaw LLP www.seyfarth.com LC § Description Penalty 6310 No Discrimination vs. Safety Whistleblowers. Employers must not discharge or discriminate against employees who bring safety complaints either to employer or to administrative agency, or employee’s representative (i.e., union), who start or participate in proceedings to enforce safety rights, or who participate in an occupational health and safety committee pursuant to an IIPP under section 6401.7. Employers also must not retaliate against an employee because the employee is a family member of a person who has—or is perceived to have—engaged in bringing safety complaints. LC 2699 6311 No Discipline for Refusal to Work in Violation of Safety Laws Where Violation Would Create Hazard. Employers must not discharge, lay off, or fail to pay employees who refuse to work because of violation of safety or health law, where violation would create real and apparent hazard to any employee. LC 2699 7.25.14 Safety conditions LC § Description Penalty 2260 Sanitary Facilities. All employers must comply with sanitary facilities standards adopted by the Occupational Safety & Health Standards Board. LC 2699 2350 Workplace Free from Effluvia and With Sufficient Toilets. Employers must provide a clean workplace free of foul smelling vapors, and must provide sufficient number of bathrooms; If there are five or more employees who are not all of the same gender, sufficient gender-designated bathrooms must be provided. LC 2699 2351 Proper Ventilation. Every factory or workshop operator must ventilate every workplace to prevent injury to employee health by injurious vapors, gases, dust, or other impurities generated by the work. LC 2699 2353 Fans. Employers must use properly fitted exhaust fans or blowers with pipes and hoods to prevent dust, filaments, or injurious gases from escaping into the atmosphere of any room where employees work. LC 2699 2440 First Aid. All employers must comply with standards for medical services and first aid adopted by Occupational Safety & Health Standards Board. LC 2699 2441 Free, Fresh, and Pure Drinking Water. Employers must provide fresh, free, and pure drinking water for employees, at reasonable and convenient times and places. LC 2441(a): offenses subject to $50- $200 fines 26502667 Industrial Homework. No industrial homework is permitted in various industries, including manufacture of food items, garments, toys and dolls, tobacco, drugs and poisons, bandages and other sanitary goods, explosives, fireworks. Licenses are required for other industrial homework. LC 2699; LC 2658.5
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