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New Legislation Creates Food Handler Training Certification Programs
SB 476 requires employers to relieve employees of all other work duties while the employee takes the training
By Chris Micheli, February 15, 2023 2:12 pm
On February 14, 2023, Senate Bill 476 (Limon) was introduced regarding food safety. SB 476 would amend Health and Safety Code Section 113948. SB 476 would require the Department of Public Health to make a list of all certified food handler training programs along with the cost of each program available on its internet website by January 1, 2025. Local public health departments would be required to provide a link of this page on their internet website or provide the same list on their internet website.
In addition, SB 476 would require an employer to pay the employee for any cost associated with the employee obtaining a food handler card, including, but not limited to, the time it takes for the employee to complete the training, the cost of the food handler certification program, and the time it takes to complete the certification program.
Moreover, SB 476 would require an employer to relieve an employee of all other work duties while the employee is taking the training course and examination. And, an employer would be prohibited from conditioning employment on an applicant or employee having an existing food handler card.
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Used to be the employee would jump through these qualification hoops on their own, to ensure their own employability.
Senator Monique Limon – one more useless Democrat nanny-stater. This is a job for community college adult extension classes, NOT foisted the employer. But Senator Limon follows the Queen of All Nanny Staters – Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, who mercifully had many of her own business-exploitive schemes over-turned later by the courts.
Welcome to business unfriendly California. Fix that first, Ms Limon. Stop creating new government dependencies.
Next, we’ll have to pay for a kid’s driver training so s/he can be a pizza delivery boy. Stop the assault on business, democraps!
It’s not a requirement to be a delivery person if you work for a pizzeria. It’s not even a requirement that the pizzeria offer delivery, but this a luxury for the consumer.