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Committee sends SB 369 forward to require local skilled-and-trained workforce on Salton Sea restoration projects
Summary
SB 369 would codify skilled-and-trained workforce requirements for all Salton Sea restoration work to protect workers, expand local hiring and create apprenticeship pipelines; the committee approved the measure and referred it to the Labor and Employment Committee.
Senator Padilla presented SB 369 to the committee and asked for an aye vote. The bill would statutorily require the use of a local skilled-and-trained workforce on all Salton Sea restoration projects, ensuring a portion of workers are graduates of state-registered apprenticeship programs, receive prevailing wages and benefit packages, and create a pipeline of trained local workers for long-term restoration work.
Padilla told the committee the Salton Sea’s receding shoreline has increased salinity and exposed toxic lakebed dust, worsening regional air quality and public-health risks. “Workers performing restoration projects face exposures at high levels to toxic substances…
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