Labor And Industry
Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to immunization and declaring an emergency. [SB-37]
Amend KRS 214.036 to prohibit required immunization of any person by any state agency or instrumentality; create a new section of KRS Chapter 338 to prohibit required immunization of any employee by an employer as defined in KRS 338.015; EMERGENCY.
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AN ACT relating to civil rights. [HB-116]
Amend KRS 344.010 to include definitions for "sexual orientation" and "gender identity"; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the Kentucky's civil rights chapter, to include a prohibition against discrimination because of sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.025, 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, and 344.080, relating to prohibited discrimination in various labor and employment practices, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.100 and 344.110 to conform; amend KRS 344.120 and 342.140, relating
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Brian T. Evans, Jr., as a member of the Board of Directors of the Employers' Mutual Insurance Authority. [SR-219]
Confirm the appointment of Brian T. Evans, Jr., as a member of the Board of Directors of the Employers' Mutual Insurance Authority for a term expiring December 31, 2021.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION urging the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, to sign the Appalachian Sky Executive Order. [SR-159]
Urge the President to sign the Appalachian Sky Executive Order.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Alzheimer's and Dementia Workforce Assessment Task Force. [SCR-46]
Create the Alzheimer's and Dementia Workforce Assessment Task Force to study the state's healthcare workforce needs as well as the state's long-term care services and supports infrastructure, including long-term care facilities that are used to provide care to individuals diagnosed with Alzheimer's or dementia; outline task force membership; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2019 Interim and to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2019.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a drug-free workplace. [SB-83]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to provide definitions and to require public employers to have an appeals process for an employee who violates a drug-free policy using legal industrial products; amend KRS 18A.043 to require an appeals process for those public employers who require drug testing; amend KRS 304.13-167 to require Section 2 be complied with by public employers and suggested for private employers.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment. [SB-7]
Amend KRS 336.700 to allow arbitration, mediation, or alternative dispute resolution agreements to be required by employers as a condition or precondition to employment; allow a waiver of a claim to be required as a condition or precondition for rehiring of an employee; allow an agreement to reduce the period for limitations as a condition or precondition of employment as long as the agreement does not apply to state or federal law that preempts modifying limitations; allow an employee to be required to agree to a background check as a condition
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to wages. [SB-51]
Amend KRS 337.010, relating to wages, to increase the applicable threshold of employees of retail stores and service industries from $95,000 to $500,000 average annual gross volume of sales for the employer; amend KRS 337.275 to raise the state minimum wage to $8.20 per hour on July 1, 2019, to $9.15 per hour on July 1, 2020, to $10.10 per hour on July 1, 2021, to $11.00 per hour on July 1, 2022, to $12.05 per hour on July 1, 2023, to $13.10 per hour on July 1, 2024, to $13.95 per hour on July 1, 2025, and to $15.00 per hour on July 1, 2026, and
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment discrimination based on smoking. [SB-33]
Amend KRS 344.040 to remove protections against employment discrimination based on an individual's status as a smoker or nonsmoker.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to pregnancy-related accommodations. [SB-18]
Amend KRS 344.030 to include within the definition of "reasonable accommodation" accommodations made for pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions; define "related medical condition"; amend KRS 344.040 to make it unlawful for an employer to fail to accommodate an employee affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition; require employers to provide notice to all employees regarding the right to be free from discrimination for pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to civil rights. [SB-166]
Amend KRS 344.010 to include definitions for "sexual orientation," "gender identity," " local Commission," and " real estate-related transaction"; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the Kentucky's civil rights chapter, to include a prohibition on discrimination because of sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, and 344.080, relating to prohibited discrimination in various labor and employment practices, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.025, 344.100, 344.110,
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Workers' Compensation Funding Commission. [SB-126]
Amend KRS 154.10-040 to make language gender-neutral.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to economic development. [SB-127]
Amend KRS 154.10-040 to make language gender-neutral.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION urging the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, to sign the Appalachian Sky Executive Order. [HR-175]
Urge the President to sign the Appalachian Sky Executive Order.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the Cabinet for Education and Workforce Development to establish reasonable, consistent standards for training providers who receive funds from the federal Workforce Investment and Opportunity Act funds for job training. [HCR-155]
Urge the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet to establish reasonable, consistent standards for training providers in compliance with the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act before approval is given to a provider to be on the Kentucky Eligible Training Provider List and post graduation and job placement rates of training providers on its Web site by July 1, 2019, and annually thereafter, so the information is available to all participants and the general public.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to criminal histories of job applicants. [HB-90]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to prohibit employers from considering or requiring disclosure of prior criminal history as part of the initial job application; title the Act "Ban the Box - The Criminal Record Employment Discrimination Act."
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [HB-75]
Amend KRS 342.315 to eliminate the requirement that physicians contracting with the commissioner to perform evaluations in occupational disease claims be "B" readers who are licensed in Kentucky and are board-certified pulmonary specialists; amend KRS 342.316 to allow the commissioner to select a physician or medical facility for referral in occupational disease claims and eliminate the requirement that such physicians be "B" readers who are licensed in Kentucky and are board-certified pulmonary specialists; amend KRS 342.794 to delete the definition
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the misclassification of employees in the construction industry. [HB-53]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to set forth legislative findings and declarations behind employee misclassification problems; provide definitions; set forth determination of misclassified workers; set forth investigation process and violations; establish court remedies; require notice by an employer; grant commissioner authority to promulgate administrative regulations; require agencies to share the information of a misclassifying employer to other interested state agencies; amend KRS 337.990 to establish penalties for violations; amend
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment provisions for employees on maternity leave. [HB-48]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require employers with 50 or more employees to provide six weeks of paid maternity leave for an employee who has been employed for at least one year; allow an employee to waive the paid maternity leave.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [HB-474]
Amend KRS 342.610 to exclude certain levels of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol in the blood from the presumption that an injury was caused by the introduction of certain substances into the employee's body.