December
There were no employment and/or labor bills that were enacted that were identified.
November
There were no employment and/or labor bills that were enacted that were identified.
October
Employee Background Checks
Bill
House Bill 206 (2021)
Summary
Protects the safety and well being of children who receive services from the Department of Health and Social Services by requiring individuals who visit children in their homes and in the community or have regular, direct access to children or adolescents under the age of 18 to submit to a criminal background check; specifies individuals who must submit to a criminal background check.
Enacted
10/21/2022
Effective Date
10/21/2022
Topics
Employer_Obligations: Background_checks, Criminal_history; Industry: Child_care, Govt_contractor
Delawarean’s Whistleblowers Protection Act
Bill
House Bill 354 (2021)
Summary
Provides that an employer shall not discharge, threaten, or otherwise discriminate against an employee regarding the employee’s compensation, terms, conditions, location, or privileges of employment, including reporting or threatening to report an employee’s suspected citizenship or immigration status or the suspected or actual citizenship or immigration status of a family member of the employee to a federal, state, or local agency.
Enacted
10/21/2022
Effective Date
10/21/2022
Topics
Prohibited_Practices: Citizenship, Family, Immigration_status, Whistleblower
Labor Peace Agreements And Medical Marijuana
Bill
Senate Bill 280 (2021)
Summary
Requires medical marijuana compassion centers and safety compliance facilities that have 20 or more employees to have a labor peace agreement with 1 more bona fide labor organizations; defines labor peace agreement as an agreement between an employer and a labor organization that, at a minimum, includes all of the specified items.
Enacted
10/07/2022
Effective Date
10/07/2022
Topics
Agreements: Labor_peace; Industry: Compassion_centers, Safety_compliance; Labor_Law: Labor_law
Employers Failure to Pay Wages
Bill
Senate Bill 208 (2021)
Summary
Relates to an employer’s failure to pay wages; provides that whenever an employee quits, resigns, is discharged, suspended, or laid off, the wages earned by the employee become due and payable by the employer on the later of the following: the next date the wages would be paid through the last day worked under the employer’s regular pay cycle as if the employment had not stopped or three business days after the last day worked.
Enacted
10/07/2022
Effective Date
10/07/2022
Topics
Claims_and_Penalties: Liquidated_damages, Wage_claims; Wage_Payment: Final_payment
Wage Theft
Bill
Senate Bill 35 (2021)
Summary
Provides that an employer may not do any of the specified actions, including but not limited to employing an individual without reporting the individual’s employment to all appropriate government agencies and paying all applicable taxes and fees for the individual, failing to properly withhold state and federal taxes from an employee, and failing to forward money withheld from an employee’s wages to the appropriate state or federal agency within 7 days of the applicable pay period.
Enacted
10/07/2022
Effective Date
10/07/2022
Topics
Claims_and_Penalties: Misclassification, Wage_claims, Wage_theft; Employment_relations: Employee, Independent_contract; Wage_and_Hour: Wage_and_hour
Organ and Bone Marrow Transplantation Tax Credit
Bill
Senate Bill 301 (2021)
Summary
Provides that a donor is allowed as a credit in an amount not to exceed $10,000 of specified unreimbursed expenses if, while living, the taxpayer or a dependent of the taxpayer donates one or more human organs, or a part thereof, or bone marrow, to another human for human organ transplantation.
Enacted
10/03/2022
Effective Date
10/03/2022
Topics
Industry: Public_employer
September
There were no employment and/or labor bills that were enacted that were identified.
August
There were no employment and/or labor bills that were enacted that were identified.
July
There were no employment and/or labor bills that were enacted that were identified.
June
Influenza Immunizations
Bill
Senate Bill 253 (2021)
Summary
Provides flexibility for nursing and assisted living facilities to make hiring decisions contingent on staff influenza vaccination status.
Enacted
06/14/2022
Effective Date
06/14/2022
Topics
Employer_Obligations: Immunization; Industry: Assisted_living, Nursing_homes
May
There were no employment and/or labor bills that were enacted that were identified.
April
There were no employment and/or labor bills that were enacted that were identified.
March
There were no employment and/or labor bills that were enacted that were identified.
February
There were no employment and/or labor bills that were enacted that were identified.
January
There were no employment and/or labor bills that were enacted that were identified.
