Bill > SB1237

This bill increases the financial penalties for private employers who repeatedly fail to submit mandatory annual pay data reports—which detail employee compensation broken down by race, ethnicity, and sex—to the California Civil Rights Department, raising the maximum fine for subsequent failures from $200 to $1,000 per employee. Additionally, the legislation requires the department, which is the state agency responsible for enforcing civil rights and anti-discrimination laws, to publicly release an aggregate annual count of the total number of these pay data reports that employers have successfully submitted.