SB 294 emergency contact form: the yes/no election
California employers must give employees the opportunity to name an emergency contact and to choose whether that person is notified if the employee is arrested or detained at work.
What to capture
- Employee name
- Emergency contact name
- Relationship
- Phone and/or email
- Separate election: “If I am arrested or detained at work, notify this person: Yes / No”
- Date (and, for updates, the date it changed)
We did not find an official DIR emergency-contact form on the Labor Commissioner's SB 294 page (checked Nov 2, 2026). This list is our summary of §1555, not an official form.
Timing
Existing employees: the opportunity by March 30, 2026. New employees: at hire. Employees can update it anytime (§1555(b)).
Penalty
Up to “five hundred dollars ($500) per employee for each day the violation occurs, up to a maximum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per employee” (§1558(d)).
Send it, collect acknowledgments and the yes/no election, keep the proof
The template is free. Proving each employee got it, in the right language, and recording their emergency contact and detention-notification election is the work. NoticeStamp does that with server timestamps, reminders and SHA-256-stamped PDFs.
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Not legal advice. Records of what happened, not a guarantee of compliance. Sources: SB 294 chaptered text (Lab. Code §§1550–1559: §1553, §1555, §1558); Labor Commissioner SB 294 page official sources. Not affiliated with the State of California.