Bill > SB1237

This bill increases the financial penalties for private employers with 100 or more employees who repeatedly fail to submit mandatory annual pay data reports—which detail employee compensation broken down by race, ethnicity, and sex—to California's Civil Rights Department, raising the maximum penalty for subsequent reporting failures from $200 to $1,000 per employee. Additionally, the legislation requires the department to publicly release the total number of these pay data reports submitted each year on an aggregate basis to ensure individual businesses and workers remain unidentifiable, providing greater transparency surrounding employer compliance with state pay equity laws.