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2021 SESSION
HB 2015 Essential workers; hazard pay, employer to provide personal protective equipment, civil penalty.
Introduced by: Hala S. Ayala | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Essential workers; hazard pay; personal protective equipment; civil penalty. Requires that following the declaration by the Governor of a state of emergency that includes or is followed by any additional executive order in furtherance of such declaration that includes a stay-at-home or shelter-in-place order, employers shall (i) compensate each of their essential workers at a rate not less than one and one-half times the essential worker's regular rate of pay for any hours worked during the closure order and (ii) provide their essential workers with personal protective equipment related to the state of emergency and recommended for the relevant work site or job task by the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry, the State Department of Health, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The bill defines "essential worker" as an individual employed as a health care provider, home care provider, or airport worker or by an essential retail business, as specified in the bill. The bill subjects violators to the same civil penalties, and provides the same cause of action for an employer's failure to pay the required hazard pay, as are currently imposed for failing to pay wages generally.
FULL TEXT
- 01/12/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102823D pdf | impact statement
- 01/28/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21103600D-H1 pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
HISTORY
- 01/12/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102823D
- 01/12/21 House: Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
- 01/14/21 House: Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #1
- 01/26/21 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N)
- 01/26/21 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/28/21 House: Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (13-Y 9-N)
- 01/28/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21103600D-H1
- 01/28/21 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/29/21 House: Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources
- 02/01/21 House: Passed by indefinitely in Appropriations (21-Y 0-N)