Committee backs bill to codify California Workplace Outreach Program into law
SB 578 would codify the California Workplace Outreach Program (CWAP) into the Labor Code, providing a permanent statutory basis for a program that partners state agencies with trusted community organizations to deliver workplace-rights education; the committee passed the bill and re-referred it to Appropriations.
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Sen. Smallwood-Cuevas presented SB 578 to the Assembly Labor and Employment Committee to codify the California Workplace Outreach Program (CWAP) into the Labor Code. The author said CWAP began as a pandemic-era program that used trusted community organizations to provide multilingual workplace-rights education to workers in low-wage, high-violation industries and that the pilot has demonstrated measurable effects in worker awareness and action.
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