Private Sector Labor And Industry
Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Labor and Employment – Economic Stabilization Act – Alterations [SB-801]
Prohibiting an employee from counting in the determination of a reduction in operations if the employee accepts an offer to transfer to any other site of employment within 30 days of the offer, for the purposes of certain provisions of law; altering the persons to whom an employer is required to provide certain notice of a reduction in operations; altering the information required to be included in a certain notice of a reduction in operations; exempting an employer from a certain notice requirement under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Melony Griffith
Enacted Under Article Ii, Section 17(c) Of The Maryland Constitution - Chapter 588 on 05/30/2021
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Labor and Employment - Economic Stabilization Act - Alterations [HB-1154]
Prohibiting an employee from counting in the determination of a reduction in operations if the employee accepts an offer to transfer to any other site of employment within 30 days after being offered the transfer for purposes of certain provisions of law; altering the persons to whom an employer is required to provide certain notice of a reduction in operations; altering the information required to be included in a certain notice of a reduction in operations; exempting an employer from a certain notice requirement; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Carl Jackson
Enacted Under Article Ii, Section 17(c) Of The Maryland Constitution - Chapter 587 on 05/30/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Labor and Employment - Right to Work [HB-1321]
Prohibiting an employer from requiring, as a condition of employment or continued employment, an employee or a prospective employee, under certain circumstances, to join or remain a member of a labor organization, pay charges to a labor organization, or pay a certain amount to a third party; prohibiting an employer from threatening an employee or a prospective employee with certain action; providing certain penalties for violation of the Act; applying the Act prospectively; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Reid Novotny
Unfavorable Report By Economic Matters on 03/17/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Maryland Healthy Working Families Act – Revisions and Public Health Emergency Leave [HB-1326]
Repealing the exemption from the Maryland Healthy Working Families Act for certain on-call employees; requiring employers to allow employees to use earned sick and safe leave during a public health emergency; requiring certain employers to provide employees certain earned sick and safe leave on the date that a public health emergency is declared or proclaimed for a jurisdiction; requiring an employer to provide certain earned sick and safe leave regardless of the employee's length of employment with the employer; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Dumais
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 04/08/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Labor and Employment - Maryland Employee Protection Plan for Vaccine Refusal [HB-1171]
Prohibiting an employer from terminating an employee solely on the basis of the employee's refusal to receive a vaccination against COVID-19; specifying that an employee waives the right to file a civil action against the employer if the employee refuses to receive a certain vaccination and the employee contracts COVID-19 in the course of employment; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nick Charles
Hearing 3/09 At 1:30 P.m. on 02/09/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Labor and Employment - Workplace Fraud Act - Rebuttable Presumption of the Employer-Employee Relationship [HB-986]
Establishing that an employer may overcome the presumption of an employer-employee relationship under the Workplace Fraud Act and establish that a certain individual is acting as an independent contractor on a certain showing.
Sponsored by: Rep. Andrea Harrison
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/17/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Maryland Healthy Working Families Act – Revisions and Public Health Emergency Leave [SB-727]
Repealing the exemption from the Maryland Healthy Working Families Act for certain on-call employees; requiring employers to allow employees to use earned sick and safe leave during a public health emergency; requiring certain employers to provide employees certain earned sick and safe leave on the date that a public health emergency is declared or proclaimed for a jurisdiction; requiring an employer to provide certain earned sick and safe leave regardless of the employee's length of employment with the employer; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brian Feldman
Hearing Canceled on 02/19/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Labor and Employment - Worker Safety and Health - Injury and Illness Prevention Program [SB-728]
Requiring employers with 10 or more employees, or whose rate of work-related injury and illness exceeds the average incidence rate of all industries in the State to develop and implement a health and safety committee to promote health and safety in the workplace; providing for the membership, meetings, and duties of the committee; requiring that the committee maintain certain records and retain the records for a certain period of time; requiring each employer to establish and maintain an injury and illness prevention program; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brian Feldman
Hearing Canceled on 02/19/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Labor and Employment – Reinstatement of Employment – Employees at Baltimore–Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI–Thurgood Marshall Workers’ Right to Reinstatement Act) [HB-1012]
Requiring certain employers at the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport to reinstate certain laid-off employees under certain circumstances; requiring certain employers to provide certain laid-off employees with certain written notice of a layoff in a certain manner and at the time of the layoff; requiring certain employers to offer certain laid-off employees certain job positions; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Vaughn Stewart
Unfavorable Report By Economic Matters on 03/17/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Labor and Employment - Elective Medical Procedures - Employee Protections [HB-1045]
Prohibiting an employer from requiring an employee to undergo a certain medical procedure unless the procedure would have a substantial effect on the employee's capacity or fitness to perform the job properly; and prohibiting an employer from taking a retaliatory action against an employee who declines to undergo a certain medical procedure.
Sponsored by: Rep. William Wivell
Hearing 3/05 At 1:30 P.m. on 02/09/2021
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State and Local Government and Private Employers - Teleworking [SB-710]
Requiring each governing body, or the governing body's designee, of a county or municipality to establish a certain telework program and adopt a certain telework policy and telework guidelines; requiring the State Court Administrator and the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House to establish a certain telework program and adopt a certain telework policy and telework guidelines; requiring, by December 1 each year, a report to certain committees on the number of eligible employees participating in the telework program; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nancy King
Hearing 2/25 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/08/2021
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Labor and Employment – Worker Safety and Health – Injury and Illness Prevention Program [HB-923]
Requiring employers with 10 or more employees, or whose rate of work-related injury and illness exceeds the average incidence rate of all industries in the State to develop and implement a health and safety committee to promote health and safety in the workplace; providing for the membership, meetings, and duties of the committee; requiring that the committee maintain certain records and retain the records for a certain period of time; requiring each employer to establish and maintain an injury and illness prevention program; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joseline Pena-Melnyk
Hearing 3/05 At 1:30 P.m. on 02/09/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Maryland Healthy Working Families Act - Applicability [HB-909]
Providing that the Maryland Healthy Working Families Act does not apply to employees of a county board of education who are called to work on an as-needed basis, can reject or accept the shift offered by the county board of education, and are not guaranteed to be called on to work by the county board of education.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ned Carey
Hearing 3/02 At 1:30 P.m. on 02/09/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Labor and Employment - Healthy Working Families Act - Application [SB-653]
Repealing the exemption from the application of the Healthy Working Families Act for certain construction industry employees who are covered by a certain collective bargaining agreement.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katherine Klausmeier
Hearing 2/25 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/01/2021
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Labor and Employment - Maryland Wage and Hour Law - Agricultural Stands, Retail Farms, and Farmers' Markets [HB-841]
Establishing an exemption from the Maryland Wage and Hour Law for an individual employed at an agricultural stand, a retail farm, or a farmers' market that primarily sells agricultural products that the employer has produced.
Sponsored by: Rep. Charles Otto
Unfavorable Report By Economic Matters on 03/17/2021
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Labor and Employment - Maryland Healthy Working Families Act - Verification [SB-594]
Altering the circumstances under which an employer is authorized to require an employee who uses certain sick and safe leave to provide verification that the leave was used appropriately; and authorizing certain employers to deny a certain request to take certain sick and safe leave if the employee fails or refuses to provide certain verification.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mary Carozza
Hearing 2/25 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/01/2021
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Labor and Employment - Apprenticeship and Training Council - Representation [HB-726]
Requiring the Apprenticeship and Training Council to include representation by individuals who are Black and Latino.
Sponsored by: Rep. Julian Ivey
Unfavorable Report By Economic Matters on 02/25/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Labor and Employment - Secure Maryland Wage Act [HB-685]
Requiring that certain employees working at a heightened security interest location be paid a certain wage for certain time periods; requiring certain employers to pay certain covered employees a certain supplement benefit rate in a certain manner beginning January 1, 2026; declaring findings of the General Assembly with regard to the ability to attract and retain qualified employees to heightened security locations; specifying that certain provisions of the Act do not diminish certain collective bargaining rights; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kriselda Valderrama
Enacted Under Article Ii, Section 17(c) Of The Maryland Constitution - Chapter 671 on 05/30/2021
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Health Facilities - Residential Service Agencies - Guidance and Reporting [HB-652]
Requiring the Office of the Attorney General, in consultation with the Maryland Department of Health and the Maryland Department of Labor, to produce a guidance document, by December 30, 2021, concerning the application of employee protection laws to the use of personal care aides by residential service agencies; requiring a residential service agency to certify certain information through the signature of a certain individual as a condition of obtaining or renewing a license; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Lily Qi
Enacted Under Article Ii, Section 17(c) Of The Maryland Constitution - Chapter 775 on 05/30/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Labor and Employment - Employment Standards During an Emergency (Maryland Essential Workers' Protection Act) [SB-486]
Requiring an essential employer to give a written statement regarding certain hazard pay paid to certain essential workers at certain intervals; requiring an essential employer to take certain actions related to occupational safety and health during an emergency; authorizing an essential worker to refuse to fulfill a certain responsibility under certain circumstances; prohibiting an essential employer from retaliating or taking other adverse action against an essential worker or other worker for certain actions; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Hearing 2/11 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/26/2021