Opinion ID: 4388694
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Immigrant Worker Protection Act (AB 450)

Text: AB 450 prohibits “public and private employers” from “provid[ing] voluntary consent to an immigration enforcement agent to enter any nonpublic areas of a place of labor,” unless “the immigration enforcement agent provides a judicial warrant.” Cal. Gov’t Code § 7285.1(a), (e). It similarly prohibits employers from “provid[ing] voluntary consent to an immigration enforcement agent to access, review, or obtain the employer’s employee records without a subpoena or judicial warrant.” Id. § 7285.2(a)(1). It also limits employers’ ability to “reverify the employment eligibility of a current employee at a time or in a manner not required by” the IRCA. Cal. Lab. Code § 1019.2(a). In addition, AB 450 requires employers to “provide a notice to each current employee, by posting in the language the employer normally uses to communicate employmentrelated information to the employee, of any inspections of I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification forms or other employment records conducted by an immigration agency within 72 hours of receiving notice of the inspection.” Id. § 90.2(a)(1). 1 If an employer receives “the written immigration agency notice that provides the results of the inspection,” then she must provide a copy to each “employee identified by the immigration agency inspection results to be an employee who may lack work authorization” and each 1 AB 450 “does not require a penalty to be imposed upon an employer or person who fails to provide notice to an employee at the express and specific direction or request of the federal government.” Cal. Lab. Code § 90.2(c). 16 UNITED STATES V. STATE OF CALIFORNIA “employee whose work authorization documents have been identified by the immigration agency inspection to have deficiencies.” Id. § 90.2(b)(1)–(2).