Unemployment compensation.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary text indicates that it is making a non-substantive change, which means no significant changes are being made to the rules.

Unemployment Compensation Changes

The bill makes a minor, non-substantive update to the rules about unemployment compensation.

What This Bill Does

• Keeps the Employment Development Department in charge of unemployment compensation.
• Requires employers to pay into the Unemployment Fund based on wages they pay each year.
• Does not allow employers to take money from employees' wages for their part of the fund.
• Makes a small, non-substantive update to an existing rule.

Who It Names or Affects

• Employers who have to pay into the Unemployment Fund
• The Employment Development Department

Terms To Know

Unemployment Compensation

Money given by the government to people who lost their jobs and are looking for new ones.

Employment Development Department

A part of the state government that helps manage unemployment benefits.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not change how much employers pay or who gets unemployment money.
• It only makes a small update to an existing rule and does not add new rules.

Official Summary Text

AB 2714, as introduced, Hart.
Unemployment compensation.
Existing law establishes the Employment Development Department, administered by the Director of Employment Development who is vested with certain duties relating to unemployment compensation. Under existing law, employer contributions to the Unemployment Fund accrue and become payable by every employer, except as specified, for each calendar year with respect to wages paid for employment. Existing law prohibits employers from deducting the required employer contributions from the wages of their employees.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that latter provision.

Current Bill Text

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