CA SB1105

Requires employers to provide paid sick days to agricultural employees who work outside to avoid smoke, heat, or flooding conditions created by a local or state emergency, including when worksites are closed due to these conditions.

Defines emergency conditions as those when the Governor proclaims a state of emergency or a local emergency is proclaimed due to smoke, heat, or flooding that prevents agricultural employees from working.

Establishes a rebuttable presumption of unlawful retaliation if an employer denies sick day use, discharges, demotes, or discriminates against an employee within 30 days of filing a complaint, cooperating with an investigation, or opposing a prohibited practice.

Declares that paid sick days for emergency conditions are declaratory of existing law to the extent they constitute necessary preventive care under the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014.

Coordinates with Assembly Bill 2499 to incorporate amendments to Section 246.5 of the Labor Code, with Section 1.5 becoming operative only if both bills are enacted and this bill is enacted after AB 2499.