California Bill Would Require Stores to Have 1 Employee Monitoring 2 Self-Checkouts

The proposed California bill SB-1446 would impose new restrictions on self-checkout for grocery stores and drugstores. The bill would require that for every two self-checkout stations, there must be one employee monitoring them, and employees must be relieved of all other duties while monitoring the stations. Self-checkouts would be limited to only 15 items, and items like alcohol and tobacco products along with items locked away in cabinets due to frequent theft that require an employee to go get them will not be allowed in self-checkouts. Stores would have to include self-checkout in their analysis of potential work hazards. The bill would also require a store that develops or implements technology that affects the jobs of its employees to complete a study on how it would impact employees before implementing the technology....