Section 1070 Of Chapter 4.6. Public Transit Service Contracts From California Labor Code >> Division 2. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 4.6.
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. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a) That when public transit agencies award contracts to operate
bus and rail services to a new contractor, qualified employees of the
prior contractor who are not reemployed by the successor contractor
face significant economic dislocation as a result.
(b) That those displaced employees rely unnecessarily upon the
unemployment insurance system, public social services, and health
programs, increasing costs to these vital government programs and
placing a significant burden upon both the government and the
taxpayers.
(c) That it serves an important social purpose to establish
incentives for contractors who bid public transit services contracts
to retain qualified employees of the prior contractor to perform the
same or similar work.