Labor And Industry
Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [HB-469]
Amend KRS 342.020 to require an employer to pay for medical benefits at the time of injury and thereafter during disability instead of 780 weeks; amend KRS 342.990 to conform.
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AN ACT relating to earned paid sick leave. [HB-47]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require employers to provide earned paid sick leave to employees; provide that employees earn paid sick leave upon the date of hire and can use the leave after being employed for 90 days; set forth allowable uses of earned paid sick time; designate how notice of need to use sick time is provided by employees; amend KRS 337.990 to establish penalty for employers that fail to follow paid sick leave requirements.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [HB-445]
Amend KRS 342.630 to create an exception in the definition of employee for temporary, non-resident workers; amend KRS 342.650 to create an exception in the definition of employer for employers who employ only temporary, non-resident workers; amend KRS 342.670 to indicate temporary, non-resident workers are not subject to KRS Chapter 342.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to leave from employment for crime victims. [HB-42]
Amend KRS 337.415, relating to court-ordered appearances by employees, to prohibit employers from discharging or retaliating against an employee who is a crime victim when the employee takes leave to attend proceedings associated with a crime; require an employee to give an employer reasonable notice to take leave when practicable; provide guidelines for use of paid leave; require the employer to maintain confidentiality of records and communication with employee crime victim; create a penalty for failing to maintain confidentiality; define terms.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment schedules. [HB-41]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to require employers to give employees a written good-faith estimate of the employee's work schedule at the time of hire, maintain a voluntary standby list of employees who wish to work additional hours, post weekly work schedules at least seven days in advance, and provide certain rest periods for employees, during which the employee is not scheduled; provide that an employee may identify time limitations for scheduling work hours; establish the rate of compensation to be paid if an employer changes the schedule;
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation for first responders. [HB-40]
Amend KRS 342.0011 to clarify definition of "injury" to include psychological injuries for certain employees; create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to set out when the psychological injuries are valid workers' compensation claims when no physical injury exists.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reorganization. [HB-392]
Amend KRS 12.020 to create the Office of the Kentucky Workforce Innovation Board, Foundation for Adult Education, Office of Administrative Services, Division of Operations and Support Services, Division of Fiscal Management, Division of Kentucky Business Enterprise, Division of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Training Center, Division of Blind Services, Division of Field Services, Statewide Council for Vocational Rehabilitation, Office of Unemployment Insurance, Office of Employer and Apprenticeship Services, Office of Career Development, Office
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to misclassification of employees in the Commonwealth and providing a remedy. [HB-355]
Create a new section of KRS 337 to provide remedy for employees misclassified as independent contractors; amend KRS 337.010 to include definitions for "independent contractor" and "misclassify".
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [HB-350]
Amend KRS 342.020 to require an employer to pay for medical benefits at the time of injury and thereafter during disability instead of 780 weeks; 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
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to apprenticeships. [HB-349]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a tax credit for certain small businesses that have an apprenticeship program and require reporting by the Department of Revenue; amend KRS 141.0205 and 131.190 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 343 to require all contractors and subcontractors for public works estimated to cost over $1 million to participate in an applicable apprenticeship program; amend KRS 343.010 to define terms.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment opportunities for service members and their families. [HB-338]
Amend KRS 18A.150 to remove veteran's preference points and replace with interview preference for current or former members of the Armed Forces, Reserves, or National Guard or their spouse, unmarried widow or widower, or parent, if he or she meets the minimum qualifications for the job classification.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board. [HB-322]
Amend KRS 338.051 to require all members of the Kentucky Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board to serve for a term of four years; require the board to meet quarterly instead of annually.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment. [HB-301]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to make the termination of employment without cause unlawful; establish amount that may be recovered for wrongful discharge; specify when the employers' internal procedures are to be used.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to call centers. [HB-260]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require an employer intending to relocate a call center from Kentucky to a foreign country to notify the secretary of the Labor Cabinet at least 120 days prior to such relocation; require the secretary to compile a list of employers that have relocated a call center to a foreign country; amend KRS 337.990 to create a civil penalty of not more than $1,000 for each violation; provide short title.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment. [HB-261]
Amend KRS 336.130 to delete references restricting rights of public employees to organize, associate collectively, or strike; amend KRS 336.180 to amend definition of "labor organization" and delete definitions of "employer" and "employee"; amend KRS 336.990 to conform; amend KRS 67A.6904 to allow an urban-county government to make an agreement with a labor organization to require as a condition of employment membership therein; amend KRS 67C.406 to allow a consolidated local government to make an agreement with a labor organization to require as
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reorganization. [HB-246]
Amend KRS 12.020 to place the Division of Apprenticeship under the Department of Workforce Investment within the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet; create the Kentucky Apprenticeship Council under the Department of Workforce Investment; and abolish the Apprenticeship and Training Council; amend KRS 151B.020 to add the Kentucky Apprenticeship Council under the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet; amend KRS 336.015 to remove apprenticeship and abolish the Apprenticeship and Training Council; amend KRS 343.010 to change the definitions
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to welding safety. [HB-239]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198B to establish requirements for projects requiring structural steel welding such as certification of welders and certified inspectors; provide definitions.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to wages for employment. [HB-193]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to make it a discriminatory employment action if an employer asks questions about previous salary or wages, relies on previous salary when setting a new salary, or refuses to hire if an applicant does not provide previous salary, except to allow a request for information voluntarily provided in response to an offer of employment; allow previous salary to be considered when required by law, when discovered while looking at other nonsalary information, and for public employee positions; require notice to be
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to wages. [HB-182]
Amend KRS 337.010, relating to the definition of "employees" of retail stores and service industries, to increase the applicable threshold of business that applies to from $95,000 to $500,000; amend KRS 337.275 to raise the state minimum wage to not less than $8.80 an hour on August 1, 2019, not less than $10.35 an hour beginning on August 1, 2020, not less than $11.90 an hour beginning on August 1, 2021, not less than $13.45 an hour beginning on August 1, 2022, and not less than $15 per hour beginning on August 1, 2023; amend KRS 337.420 to define
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to civil rights. [HB-164]
Amend KRS 344.010 to include definitions for "sexual orientation" and "gender identity"; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the KRS 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 to prohibited
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