The LA County Board of Supervisors is looking for additional ways to add new burdens to small businesses.
The board is considering forcing businesses to create "public health councils" composed of employees at their places of work.
Read the motion and county report here.
This means:
- ALL businesses would be forced to allow their employees to organize and report any potential violations to a "third party organization" contracted with the county.
- This unidentified "third party organization" would visit your business to determine what violations, if any, exist.
- The "third party organizations" will also report perceived violations to the Department of Public Health - without specification if the business will have a chance to defend or implement changes without penalty.
- The Board of Supervisors has not addressed employee privacy rights or state and federal employee relations procedures and would be improperly empowering the Certified Third Parties to conduct (directly or through their guidance and oversight of the Health Councils) unfettered searches of employer records and information.
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