California Code of Regulations › Title 2 - Administration › Division 1 - Administrative Personnel › Chapter 3 - Department of Human Resources › Subchapter 1 - General Civil Service Rules › Article 3 - Valuation of Employee Housing and Services › Section 599.650 - Laundry Service

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
Certain state institutions operate laundries. Services of
						these facilities may be furnished to state employees in accordance with the
						conditions and restrictions prescribed herein.
(a) An agency operating state institutions
					 may authorize any of its institutions to furnish "duty" laundry free of charge
					 to employees. Duty laundry is defined as uniforms required to be worn by
					 employees as a condition of employment.
(b) An agency operating state institutions
					 may authorize any of its institutions to furnish free of charge household
					 laundry to occupants of employee non-housekeeping rooms and suites of rooms at
					 the institution. Household laundry is defined as bedding, bed linens, and
					 towels. Employees and their families renting state-owned housekeeping quarters
					 on institutional grounds may be furnished household laundry service on a
					 piece-rate charge basis sufficient to cover the costs of all supplies,
					 materials, delivery, and labor incident to the furnishing of such service,
					 provided the employees are living on the grounds of an institution which
					 operates a laundry of adequate capacity or which receives laundry service from
					 another state institution operating such a laundry. The Department of
					 Corrections and Rehabilitation may additionally authorize such service to
					 employees living outside of the institutional grounds, as stipulated in
					 subsection (c) below.
(c) Personal
					 laundry includes clothing and all other household textile items not defined
					 above which are commonly sent out of a household for periodic washing. An
					 agency operating state institutions may authorize any of its institutions which
					 operates a laundry of adequate capacity or which receives laundry service from
					 another state institution operating such a laundry to furnish personal laundry
					 service to occupants of state-owned employee non-housekeeping rooms and suites
					 of rooms on institutional grounds. The charges for this service will be on a
					 piece-rate basis sufficient to cover the costs of all supplies, materials,
					 delivery, and labor incident to the furnishing of such service. The Department
					 of Corrections and Rehabilitation may additionally authorize any institution
					 under its supervision that has an institutional laundry of adequate capacity to
					 provide household and personal laundry service to employees and their families
					 who do not live on the institutional grounds. Charges for personal laundry
					 service to employees living off the grounds will be the same as for employees
					 living on the grounds; pick-up or delivery service will not be furnished by the
					 state to employees at any location off the institutional grounds.
(d) Articles of laundry belonging to state
					 employees that are lost or damaged in institutional laundry operations will not
					 be replaced or paid for from state funds. Employees who take advantage of the
					 state-operated laundry service facilities will accept the risk of such loss or
					 damage.
(e) An agency that may
					 authorize the furnishing of laundry service to some of its employees may
					 discontinue such service at any time; it may limit the types or quantity of
					 articles which will be laundered; and in any other manner not in conflict with
					 these regulations, it may set such conditions as it may deem advisable upon
					 laundry service to employees. There is no requirement for similarity of
					 service, charges, or authorization for laundry service at institutions within
					 an agency.
1. Change
						without regulatory effect amending section and NOTE filed 10-13-2014 pursuant
						to section 100, title 1, California Code of
						Regulations (Register 2014, No. 42).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						  18502 and
						  19815.4(d),
						  Government Code. Reference: Section
						  19822,
						  Government Code.