- Employers provide 90 days advance notice of a plant closing or mass layoff. State law presently requires 60 days advance notice;
- The California Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA) maintain a guide of benefits and services available to dislocated workers and maintain a guide of economic development benefits and services for employers to avert plant closings and mass layoffs;
- The LWDA transmit the guides an employer upon their filing notice of a plant closing or mass layoff and that employers provide such information to their employees; and
- An employer who seeks to be exempt from notice under the "actively seeking capital exception" engage in consultation with specified public agencies while seeking capital.
On April 22, 2009, the bill passed out of the Assembly Committee on Labor and Employment and has now been referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
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