Gateway Pundit: Last week, The California Senate passed a bill that makes it illegal for businesses to require their employees to confront shoplifters.
Senate Bill 553, introduced by State Sen. Dave Cortese (D-Cupertino), focuses on strengthening occupational safety by addressing workplace violence and expanding the scope of protection and prevention measures. If the bill is approved by the California State Assembly and subsequently signed into law by the Democrat governor Newsom, it will come into effect on January 1, 2024.
“What we’re saying in the bill is, it’s not ok for an employer to take a rank and file worker, somebody whose job is really something else, a reporter for example, and say ‘hey if there’s an intruder, we’re going to deputize you. You’ll be the one to intervene.’ People get hurt and oftentimes killed that way,” Cortese told KTVU.
Part of the measure would prevent companies from requiring their staff to confront active shooters or shoplifters. MORE
Stores will only stay open by the good graces of suckers.
This is a total NON STORY and a Bull Shit waste of paper bill. This guy from Cupertino, my old home town, is a complete moron. He should review California Labor Laws. You can’t force an employee into risking life or limb. Doing anything. His bill does not prevent an employee from engaging a thief. His bill prevents the employer from forcing the employee to engage. What a waste of ink.
Stores should just have the doors locked and require id to enter.
All this will do is to encourage even more shoplifting. DUH!
beachmom AT 3:02 PM
Stores should just have the doors locked and require id to enter.
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Better yet, no browsing down the ailes any more.
You pick what you want from a screen and pay first. Then it’s brought to you.
Fancy version of the food automats of days gone by where you pay for the slice of pie and the door opens.
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this will encourage more crime. Rioters, Looters and Shoplifters should be shot on sight. By the Way the way these people (scum) are doing this is looting. The stores cannot continue to absorb the costs and will be passed on to the rest of us.
Are Security Guards allowed to stop theft anymore? All future purchases will be on line, no stores.
Unnecessary,
As the shoplifting escalates, there will be no employees as the stores close.
My guess is you’ll have to order and pay at a kiosk and they will go on a conveyor belt in a pick up area.
The stores will have less people so it’s a win win for them.
Kcir… I’m certain that’s the plan. As stores close and cities become “food deserts” and lacking in everyday necessities, guess who will fill the void?
And when gov takes over the supply chain, it’ll be full on communism.
These policies aren’t bad decisions, they’re calculated and devious.
Commies are in it for teh long haul.
Shoot the bastards or shutter the store. F*** Caliphate-ornia.
If any CA retailer hasn’t already decided to leave that State, then survival isn’t a priority for them.
^^^^ Why? Northern California Counties are fine, So are inland Counties. 85 % of geographical California does not suffer from this problem. Now what?
If stores cannot require employee interventions, they will not support employees who do intervene. Presumably they can discourage shoplifting by various means.
Just wondering whether this bill addresses internal theft? I read somewhere that internal “shrinkage” often outpaces shoplifting itself.
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