Committee advances bill to require detailed pay stubs for classified school employees

The California State Senate Committee on Labor, Public Employment and Retirement voted to send AB 374 to the Committee on Appropriations after debate over implementation details and payroll-system complexity. AB 374 would require school districts and community colleges to provide classified employees — such as custodians, bus drivers and food‑service workers — with pay stubs that clearly list hours worked, pay rate and leave time.

Assemblymember Nguyen, the bill's author, told the committee that the measure "is about respecting the people who keep our schools running, giving them access to basic reliable information about how they're paid." Nguyen said the author and sponsor are working with employer groups and have "agreed in principle to a few key amendments" to accommodate reporting of leave time and…