SECTIONS 14870-14877 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 14870-14877

14870. The department shall execute promptly all orders for
printing or binding received from the various state agencies.

14871. Orders for printing shall be forwarded to the department by
the state agency ordering the printing. Such orders shall contain a
statement showing that sufficient funds have been encumbered and made
available to cover the cost of the printing ordered. The Office of
State Printing shall not commence work until a printing order,
approved by an authorized officer of the agency ordering the
printing, has been received.

14872. There is in the Department of General Services a State
Printer, who shall be appointed by the Governor, upon recommendation
of the director, and shall serve at the pleasure of the director. His
salary shall be fixed by the director in accordance with law. Such
officer shall have such duties as may be assigned to him by, and
shall be responsible to, the director for the performance of those
duties. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as rendering
inapplicable to the State Printer any conflict of interest statutes.
The State Printer shall not engage in a managing capacity in any
private business or enterprise.

14873. The department shall take charge of and is responsible for
all manuscripts and other matter delivered to it for printing.

14874. There shall be retained and filed in the Office of State
Printing, with the job ticket, one copy or sample of the printing
produced on each completed printing order.

14875. The department shall employ such compositors, bookbinders,
pressmen, assistants and such other skilled craftsmen as the exigency
of the work from time to time requires. At no time shall more
skilled craftsmen be employed than the absolute necessities of the
state printing may demand.

14876. (a) Pressmen, typographers, linotypers, compositors,
bookbinders, lithographers, engravers, apprentices and assistants and
all other employees of the Office of State Printing employed in
allied work shall be paid on an hourly wage basis. The basic wage of
those employees shall be the prevailing hourly wage paid to persons
identified by the Department of Personnel Administration to be in
similar and comparable employment by private printers in the major
metropolitan areas in California. The Department of Personnel
Administration shall accept and give validity to certified copies of
agreed upon contracts submitted by either the employer, the employer
group, or the employee organization.
The Department of Personnel Administration shall survey only major
employers where there are agreed upon contracts. If any agreed upon
contract contains any provision or provisions that do not reflect the
actual practice of the employer, the Department of Personnel
Administration shall disregard the provision or provisions.
If the Department of Personnel Administration finds that salary
relationships between surveyed classes do not accurately reflect
relationships in duties and responsibilities of employees of the
Office of State Printing, the department shall adjust those wage
rates on an equitable basis notwithstanding the survey findings.
As used in this section, prevailing wages and prevailing benefits
means wages and benefits arrived at through negotiation between an
employer or employer organization and an employee organization that
is the bona fide representative of the employer's employees and
certified as the bona fide representative by the Director of
Industrial Relations. In order to be so certified, the employee
organization shall be free from employer influence and domination.
(b) In addition to these wages, and the rights and privileges
afforded state employees under the provisions of the State Civil
Service Act, and other statutes, there shall be paid to each employee
of the Office of State Printing, either directly or to a health and
welfare fund on his or her behalf, an amount equal to the prevailing
individual contributions paid to health and welfare plans for
employees in similar and comparable employment by private printers in
the major metropolitan areas. Where those contracts do not disclose
the dollar value of health and welfare benefits, the state shall
provide the same or substantially the same level of benefits as
provided for in the agreed upon contracts. Any adjustments made
pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (b) of this section shall be
effective as of March 1, 1977, and each March 1, thereafter.
(c) As an alternative to subdivision (b), a person first employed
to any position described in subdivision (a) after October 1, 1977,
may elect to become an "employee" as defined in paragraph (5) of
subdivision (a) of Section 22772 within 90 days of commencing that
employment.
Any person who is a member of a health and welfare plan described
in subdivision (b) who loses eligibility for participation in the
plan, or if the plan of which the person is a member ceases to exist,
that person may elect to become an "employee," as defined in
paragraph (5) of subdivision (a) of Section 22772, within 90 days of
the date that eligibility is lost or the plan ceases to exist.
(d) In no instance shall the wages and the health and welfare
contributions paid by the state to the persons covered under this
section be less than the dollar amount paid as of the effective date
of this section.
(e) If the provisions of this section are in conflict with the
provisions of a memorandum of understanding reached pursuant to
Section 3517.5, the memorandum of understanding shall be controlling
without further legislative action, except that if the provisions of
a memorandum of understanding require the expenditure of funds, the
provisions may not become effective unless approved by the
Legislature in the annual Budget Act.

14877. There shall be kept in the Office of State Printing, a time
book, containing the name of every employee connected with the Office
of State Printing, the time employed, the rate of wages, and the
amount paid.