Labor and Workforce Development
7350 Department of Industrial Relations

The Department of Industrial Relations protects the workforce in California, improves working conditions, and advances opportunities for profitable employment. The Department is responsible for enforcing workers' compensation insurance laws, adjudicating workers' compensation claims, and working to prevent industrial injuries and deaths. The Department also promulgates regulations and enforces laws relating to wages, hours, and conditions of employment, promotes apprenticeship and other on-the-job training, and analyzes and disseminates statistics which measure the condition of labor in the state.
MAJOR PROGRAM CHANGES Back to Top
  • Process Safety Management Unit Expansion (Refinery Inspections) - The Budget includes an increase of $2.4 million Occupational Safety and Health Fund and 11 positions to enforce workplace health and safety regulations in 15 refineries and over 1,600 other facilities that handle hazardous chemicals. These staff will significantly increase the number of refinery inspections as well as the time spent conducting each inspection. Refinery inspections will be funded from a new regulatory fee based on the amount of crude oil being processed at each refinery.
PROGRAMS Back to Top
The following table presents total proposed budget year positions and expenditures for each budgeted program area. These expenditures include all funding sources that support the state agency's programs.
Code Program
 Proposed
2014-15*
Positions
Dollars
10 Self-Insurance Plans
27.1
$6,211
30 Division of Workers' Compensation
1,077.8
197,020
36 Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation
8.1
3,416
40 Division of Occupational Safety and Health
726.9
127,106
50 Division of Labor Standards Enforcement
509.4
72,250
60 Division of Apprenticeship Standards
55.3
10,511
80 Claims, Wages, and Contingencies
-
181,182
94.01 Administration
385.0
49,905
94.02 Distributed Administration
-
-49,905
Totals, Positions and Expenditures (excluding Infrastructure)
2,789.6
$597,696
 
 Infrastructure Expenditures
-
-
Totals, Positions and All Expenditures
2,789.6
$597,696

Refer to the Program Descriptions for a description of programs operated by this state agency.

Refer to the 3-Yr Expenditures & Positions for expenditures, positions, and funding detail.
PRINTABLE BUDGET DOCUMENTS Back to Top
The following identifies budget documents for this state agency that are available in a printable (pdf) format.

Entire Department of Industrial Relations Budget (pdf * - 66K) in pdf format.
This document provides a printable format (pdf) of all budget information for this state agency. Note: Along with other information, this document includes the documents listed below.

 Fund Condition Statements ONLY (pdf * - 29K)
This document provides a printable format (pdf) of only the fund condition statements for each fund administered by this state agency.

 Detail of Appropriations and Adjustments ONLY (pdf * - 14K)
This document provides a printable format (pdf) of only the detail of appropriations and adjustments for this state agency.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Back to Top
Legal Citations and Authority
Includes the legal citations (state statutes, federal statutes, and court orders) for operation of department programs and activities.