Workers' compensation: penalty assessments.

Existing law requires every employer, except the state, to secure the payment of workers' compensation. Existing law requires the Director of Industrial Relations to issue and serve on any employer that has failed to secure the payment of workers' compensation a stop order prohibiting the use of employee labor. Under existing law, at the time the stop order is issued and served, the director is required to issue and serve a penalty assessment order requiring the uninsured employer to pay to the director, for deposit into the State Treasury to the credit of the continuously appropriated Uninsured Employers Benefits Trust Fund, the sum of $1,000 per employee employed at the time the order is…