AB 729

Current law prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of age, race,

creed, color, disability, marital status, sex, national origin, ancestry, sexual

orientation, arrest record, conviction record, military service, use or nonuse of a

lawful product off the employer's premises during nonworking hours, or declining to

attend a meeting or to participate in any communication about religious or political

matters.

This bill prohibits discrimination in employment against an individual who

signs or refuses to sign a petition for the recall of any incumbent elective official

(recall petition). The bill provides, however, that it is not employment discrimination

on the basis of signing a recall petition for an employer to refuse to hire or employ

an individual, to suspend or terminate the employment of an individual, or to

discriminate against an individual in promotion, in compensation, or in terms,

conditions, or privileges of employment, because the individual signed a recall

petition if the individual is a nonpartisan employee of or an applicant for nonpartisan

employment with the Government Accountability Board, a legislative service

agency, either house of the legislature, a community relations-social development

commission, a municipal public utility, the Citizens Utility Board, or the Judicial

Commission and signing a recall petition impairs the nonpartisan character of the

employer.