| AK | House | 61 | Employment Of Minors | Relates to employment; relates to voluntary flexible work hour plans; relates to the employment of minors; relates to hours; works by minors; employs in the state. | 1/22/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| AK | Senate | 10 | Paid Family Leave and Wage Replacement Insurance | Relates to family leave wage replacement coverage. | 1/22/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| AK | Senate | 68 | Employment of Minors | Relates to employment; relates to voluntary flexible work hour plans; relates to the employment of minors; relates to hours worked by minors employed in the state. | 1/24/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| AK | House | 127 | Overtime Eligibility Newspapers | Relates to the overtime pay exemption for certain newspaper employees. | 3/5/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Exemptions; Wage_and_Hour: Overtime; |
| AK | House | 161 | Paid Sick Leave Exemption | Relates to minimum paid sick leave requirements; provides for an effective date. | 3/28/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| AK | Senate | 78 | Disclosure Of Wage Information | Relates to disclosure of information regarding employee compensation by employers, employees, and applicants for employment. | 5/2/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Posting_requirement; Employer_Obligations: Terms_and_conditions; Prohibited_Practices: EEs_right_to_discuss; |
| AK | Senate | 189 | Paid Sick Leave Exemption | Relates to minimum paid sick leave requirements; provides for an effective date. | 5/2/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| AK | House | 156 | Disclosure of Wage Information | Relates to disclosure of information regarding employee compensation by employers, employees, and applicants for employment. | 5/14/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Posting_requirement; Employer_Obligations: Wage-range; Employer_Obligations: Wage_history; Employment_relations: Job_advertisements; Employment_relations: Job_postings; Prohibited_Practices: EEs_right_to_discuss |
| AK | Senate | 79 | Payment Of Wages | Relates to wage payments. | 5/18/2025 | | Wage_Payment: Manner_of_payment; Wage_Payment: Payroll_card; |
| AL | House | 20 | Body Size Discrimination | Makes it unlawful for a person to deny an individual full and equal enjoyment of public accommodations or for an employer to discriminate against an applicant or employee based upon the individual’s weight or body size; creates a state cause of action against an employer who does so. | 2/3/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Body_type; Prohibited_Practices: Weight; |
| AL | House | 21 | Workplace Lactation Stations | Concerns employment; requires employers to provide reasonable break time and location for employees to express breast milk. | 2/3/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Lactation; Hours_worked: Rest_break; |
| AL | House | 22 | Juneteenth Holiday | Concerns state holidays; adds Juneteenth as a state holiday. | 2/3/2025 | | Leave_laws: Juneteenth; |
| AL | House | 64 | State holidays, adding Election Day as a state holiday | Relates to the State Government. | 2/3/2025 | | Leave_laws: Holidays; |
| AL | House | 291 | Labor and Employment | Relates to labor and employment; repeals the state uniform minimum wage and Right-to-Work Act, Article 2A, Chapter 7, Title 25, comprised of Sections 25-7-40 through 25-7-45, Code of Alabama 1975. | 2/18/2025 | | Labor_Law: Right_to_work; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| AL | House | 326 | Labor and Employment | Establishes the parental right to participate in schools act; permits certain employees to take leave to attend school-related activities; provides for implementation; provides for enforcement by the state department of workforce. | 2/25/2025 | | Leave_laws: School; |
| AL | House | 520 | Discriminatory Acts | Relates to health; relates to discrimination by certain entities against individuals who refuse certain immunizations, drugs, or facial coverings for reasons of conscience prohibited; relates to civil cause of action for violations provided; relates to Attorney General authorized to defend an entity subject to related federal penalties. | 4/3/2025 | | Leave_laws: Religious; Prohibited_Practices: Medicine; Prohibited_Practices: Refuse_conditions; Prohibited_Practices: Religion; Prohibited_Practices: Vaccination; |
| AL | House | 327 | Paid Parental Leave | Relates to state employees and employees of local education agencies; provides for paid parental leave for eligible employees following the birth, stillbirth, or miscarriage of a child or the placement of a child for adoption. | 5/6/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| AL | House | 165 | State Holidays | Relates to State holidays; adds Juneteenth as a State holiday; provides for, among other State holidays, Confederate Memorial Day and American Indian Heritage Day; provides that all State holidays shall be observed by the closing of all State offices. | 5/8/2025 | 06/01/2025 | Leave_laws: Holidays; Leave_laws: Juneteenth; |
| AR | Senate | 139 | Covenants Not to Compete | Clarifies that a covenant not to compete agreement is unenforceable for certain licensed medical professionals; provides that a covenant not to compete agreement that restricts the right of a physician to practice within the physicians scope of practice is void. | 3/4/2025 | 08/04/2025 (Updated) | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Non-compete; Employment_relations: Physician; |
| AR | Senate | 278 | Employment Agencies | Repeals the statutes concerning the occupational authorization and licensure of private employment agencies, employment counselors, and employment agency managers; repeals the State Private Employment Agency Act of 1975. | 4/3/2025 | 08/04/2025 (Updated) | Industry: Hiring_agency; |
| AR | House | 1731 | Child Labor | Strengthens child labor laws through the reinstatement of employment certificates. | 4/8/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| AR | House | 1996 | Child Labor | Amends the child labor laws enacted by Initiated Act 1 of 1914; establishes an educational alternative to civil penalties for certain violations; creates educational materials related to child labor. | 4/14/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| AR | House | 1454 | Criminal History Records Checks | Amends the laws concerning criminal history records checks for employees of service providers; allows third-party employee evaluation services to perform criminal history records checks; includes independent contractors. | 4/16/2025 | 08/04/2025 (Updated) | Employer_Obligations: Background_checks; Industry: Child_care; Industry: Health_care; Industry: Hospice; Industry: Long-term_care; |
| AR | House | 1018 | Strong Families Act | Creates an income tax credit for employers that provide paid family and medical leave for certain employees; provides that an employer is allowed an income tax credit against the income tax in an amount equal to a specified percent of the amount of wages paid to a qualified employee during the period in which the qualified employee is on family and medical leave; provides that if a qualified employee is not paid on an hourly basis, the wages of the qualified employee shall be prorated to an hourly basis. | 5/5/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Insurance_rider; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Wage_and_Hour: Tax_credits; |
| AR | House | 1116 | Remote and Mobile Work Modernization | Creates the remote and mobile work modernization and competitiveness act; provides income tax and withholding exemptions related to certain remote and mobile employees and nonresidents; exempts certain remote and mobile employees from the income tax levied on individuals; exempts employers from the requirement to withhold income tax from the wages of certain remote and mobile employees. | 5/5/2025 | | Employment_relations: Remote_employee; Wage_and_Hour: Tax_exempt; |
| AR | House | 1162 | Good Friday | Establishes Good Friday as an official state holiday. | 5/5/2025 | | Leave_laws: Good_Friday; Leave_laws: Holidays; |
| AR | House | 1195 | Employees of a Municipality | Amends the laws concerning employees of a municipality that participates in the state public employees’ retirement system and the election to instead participate in a local retirement plan. | 5/5/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| AR | House | 1792 | Employers to Provide Unpaid Leave | Requires employers to provide unpaid leave on veterans day to veteran employees. | 5/5/2025 | | Leave_laws: Unpaid_leave; Leave_laws: Veteran; Leave_laws: Veterans_Day; |
| AR | Senate | 585 | Certain Records Be Provided to an Employee | Requires certain records be provided to an employee who is a minor; provides that the records shall show the pay basis in hours or days worked rate or rates of pay, gross pay; and all deductions from the pay for the respective pay period. | 5/5/2025 | | Wage_Payment: Pay_stub; Wage_Payment: Wage_statement; Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| AZ | House | 2382 | Working Conditions and Temperatures | Relates to working conditions; relates to temperatures; relates to employers; relates to definitions. | 1/21/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Policy_requirement; Employer_Obligations: Training; Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: Heat; Workplace_Behavior: PPE; Workplace_Behavior: Shade Workplace_Behavior: Water |
| AZ | House | 2501 | Repeal and Right To Work and Liability | Relates to repeal; relates to right to work; relates to liability. | 1/21/2025 | | Labor_Law: Right_to_work; |
| AZ | House | 2502 | Employment and Labor Standards and Meal Breaks | Relates to employment; relates to labor standards; relates to meal breaks. | 1/21/2025 | | Hours_worked: Meal_break; Hours_worked: Paid; Hours_worked: Rest_break; Wage_and_Hour: Overtime; |
| AZ | House | 2260 | Employers and Unpaid Wages and Penalties | Relates to employers; relates to unpaid wages; relates to penalties. | 1/23/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; |
| AZ | House | 2361 | Collective Bargaining and Warehouse Employees | Relates to collective bargaining; relates to warehouse employees; relates to quotas. | 1/23/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Change_of_terms; Employer_Obligations: Committee; Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Quotas; Employer_Obligations: Recordkeeping; Employment_relations: New_employee Industry: Warehouses Prohibited_Practices: Retaliation Wage_and_Hour: Quotas Wage_and_Hour: Work_speed Workplace_Behavior: Safety |
| AZ | House | 2537 | Employees and School Conferences | Relates to employees; relates to school conferences; relates to leave. | 1/27/2025 | | Leave_laws: School; |
| AZ | House | 2589 | Employers and Contracts and Noncompete Clause | Relates to employers; relates to contracts; relates to noncompete clause; relates to prohibition. | 1/27/2025 | | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Non-compete; |
| AZ | House | 2652 | Discrimination and Prohibited and Protective Hairstyles | Relates to discrimination; relates to prohibited; relates to protective hairstyles. | 1/27/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Ethnicity; Prohibited_Practices: Hairstyles; Prohibited_Practices: Race; |
| AZ | Senate | 1197 | Wage History and Disclosure and Retaliation | Relates to wage history; relates to disclosure; relates to retaliation; relates to prohibition. | 1/27/2025 | | Employment_relations: Applicant; Prohibited_Practices: Wage_history; |
| AZ | House | 2461 | Coverage and Family and Medical Leave | Relates to coverage; relates to family and medical leave. | 1/28/2025 | | Leave_laws: Abuse; Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Domestic_violence; Leave_laws: Exigency; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical Leave_laws: Parental Leave_laws: Safe Leave_laws: Sexual_assault Leave_laws: Stalking Prohibited_Practices: Pregnancy |
| AZ | Senate | 1330 | Working Conditions and Temperatures and Employers | Relates to working conditions; relates to temperatures; relates to employers; relates to definitions. | 1/30/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Training; Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: Heat; Workplace_Behavior: Monitoring; Workplace_Behavior: PPE; Workplace_Behavior: Safety |
| AZ | Senate | 1401 | Pregnant Employees and Reasonable Accommodation | Relates to pregnant employees; relates to reasonable accommodation. | 2/3/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Accommodation; Employer_Obligations: Posting_requirement; Prohibited_Practices: Pregnancy; |
| AZ | Senate | 1410 | Family and Medical Leave and Coverage | Relates to family and medical leave; relates to coverage. | 2/3/2025 | | Leave_laws: Abuse; Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Domestic_violence; Leave_laws: Exigency; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Parental Leave_laws: Pregnancy Leave_laws: Safe Leave_laws: Sexual_assault Leave_laws: Stalking |
| AZ | Senate | 1452 | Antidiscrimination and Employment and Housing | Relates to antidiscrimination; relates to employment; relates to housing; relates to public accommodations. | 2/4/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Gender_expression; Prohibited_Practices: Gender_identity; Prohibited_Practices: Sexual_orientation; |
| AZ | Senate | 1465 | Collective Bargaining and Warehouse Employees and Quota | Relates to collective bargaining; relates to warehouse employees; relates to quotas. | 2/4/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Change_of_terms; Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Terms_and_conditions; Industry: Warehouses; Wage_and_Hour: Quotas; Wage_and_Hour: Work_speed |
| AZ | House | 2758 | Antidiscrimination and Public Accommodations | Relates to antidiscrimination; relates to public accommodations; relates to employment; relates to housing. | 2/10/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Gender_identity; Prohibited_Practices: Sexual_orientation; |
| AZ | House | 2771 | Leaves of Absence and Military Training | Relates to leaves of absence; relates to military training. | 2/10/2025 | | Leave_laws: Military; |
| AZ | House | 2790 | Working Conditions and Heat Illness and Prevention | Relates to working conditions; relates to heat illness; relates to prevention. | 2/10/2025 | | Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: Heat; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; |
| AZ | House | 2890 | Pregnant Employees and Reasonable Accommodation | Relates to pregnant employees; relates to reasonable accommodation. | 2/12/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Accommodation; Prohibited_Practices: Pregnancy; |
| AZ | House | 2909 | Overtime Pay | Relates to overtime pay. | 2/12/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Exempt_status; Wage_and_Hour: Exemptions; Wage_and_Hour: Overtime; |
| AZ | House | 2910 | Wage Disclosure and Employee Rights | Relates to wage disclosure; relates to employee rights. | 2/12/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Salary_history; Employer_Obligations: Wage_history; Employment_relations: Prospective_employee; Prohibited_Practices: EEs_right_to_discuss; |
| AZ | House | 2912 | Employment and Employee Salary | Relates to employment; relates to employee salary. | 2/12/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Salary_history; Employer_Obligations: Wage_history; Employment_relations: Prospective_employee; Prohibited_Practices: EEs_right_to_discuss; |
| AZ | House | 2668 | Overtime Pay and Law Enforcement | Relates to overtime pay; relates to law enforcement. | 2/19/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Overtime; |
| AZ | House | 2364 | Antidiscrimination and Employment and Housing | Relates to antidiscrimination; relates to employment; relates to housing; relates to public accommodations. | 2/24/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Gender_expression; Prohibited_Practices: Gender_identity; Prohibited_Practices: Sexual_orientation; |
| AZ | House | 2381 | Wage Claims and Employment Practices | Relates to wage claims; relates to employment practices. | 3/4/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Administrative; Claims_and_Penalties: Complaints; Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; |
| AZ | House | 2081 | Individual Income Tax | Relates to individual income tax; provides that in computing State adjusted gross income, the specified amounts shall be subtracted from State gross income, including, for taxable years beginning from and after the specified date, to the extent not already excluded from State gross income under the Internal Revenue Code, compensation received as tips during the taxable year that are reported to the employer. | 3/11/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Tax_exempt; Wage_and_Hour: Tips; |
| AZ | Senate | 1159 | Employment Practices and Wage Claims | Relates to employment practices; relates to wage claims; provides that an employee may file a written claim with the department for unpaid wages against an employer if the amount of such wages does not exceed a specified amount and if such claim is filed within one year of the accrual of such claim. | 4/2/2025 | 09/26/2025 (Updated) | Claims_and_Penalties: Administrative; Claims_and_Penalties: Complaints; Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; |
| AZ | HCR | 2029 | Right To Work And Repeal | Relates to right to work; relates to repeal. | 6/27/2025 | | Labor_Law: Right_to_work; |
| AZ | Senate | 1514 | Employer Employee Arbitration and Contract | Relates to employer-employee arbitration; relates to contract; relates to disputes. | 6/27/2025 | | Agreements: Arbitration; |
| AZ | House | 2077 | Long-term Disability | Relates to long-term disability. | 7/2/2025 | 09/26/2025 | Benefits: Long-term_disability; Leave_laws: Long-term_disability; Temporary_disability: Long-term_disability; |
| AZ | S | 1031 | Immigration | Relates to immigration; relates to law enforcement; relates to a repeal. | 12/16/2025 | | Employment_relations: Immigration_status; Employment_relations: Legal_work_status; Employment_relations: Unauthorized; |
| CA | Assembly | 901 | Veterans’ Preferences: Eligible Spouses | Provides that authorizing employers may grant a preference in hiring and promotion to the eligible spouse of an active duty service member, veteran, widow or widower of a veteran, or spouse of a 100% disabled veteran. Authorizes the eligible spouse of an active duty service member, widow or widower of a veteran, or spouse of a 100% disabled veteran to receive the appropriate credit for any selection test generally related to hiring and promotional preferences. | 3/10/2025 | | Employment_relations: Preference; Employment_relations: Veteran; |
| CA | Assembly | 1015 | Discrimination and Harassment Prevention Training | Authorizes an employer to satisfy the discrimination and harassment prevention training requirements by demonstrating that the employee possesses a certificate of completion within the past 2 years. | 3/10/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Training; Prohibited_Practices: Discrimination; Prohibited_Practices: Harassment; |
| CA | Assembly | 816 | Employment: Employees and Independent Contractors | Provides that existing law requires the ABC test to determine if workers are employees or independent contractors for purposes of the Labor Code, the Unemployment Insurance Code, and the wage orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission. Creates an exemption from the ABC test for a merchandiser contracting with a bona fide business or hiring entity to provide stand alone in store inventory and product placement labor or services on behalf of retailers and brands in the consumer packaged goods industry. | 3/13/2025 | | Employment_relations: Employee; Employment_relations: Independent_contract; |
| CA | Assembly | 552 | Agricultural Labor Relations Board: Office | Provides that existing law creates the Agricultural Labor Relations Board within the Labor and Workforce Development Agency. Provides that existing law requires the principal office of the board to be in Sacramento, but authorizes the board to meet and exercise its power at any other place in the State. Eliminates, until the specified date, the requirement that the principal office of the board be located in Sacramento. Requires the board to establish an executive or principal office. | 4/2/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| CA | Assembly | 1110 | Safety Rules and Regulations: Notice | Provides that existing law requires the Division of Occupational Safety and Health of the Department of Industrial Relations to prepare a notice, to be posted by employers, containing information regarding safety rules and regulations in the workplace. Requires the notice to contain the email address of the nearest division office. | 4/2/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Complaints; Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; Employment_relations: Seasonal_employees; Wage_Payment: Deductions; |
| CA | Assembly | 1519 | Direct File: Employment: Notice | Requires employer notifications to all employees relating to specified income tax filing assistance programs to include information regarding Direct File. | 5/7/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Earned_tax_credit; Employer_Obligations: Posting_requirement; |
| CA | Assembly | 989 | State Holidays: Native American Day | Provides that the 4th Friday in September, known as Native American Day, is a paid holiday for state employees. | 5/23/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; Leave_laws: Holidays; |
| CA | Assembly | 1221 | Workplace Surveillance Tools | Regulates the use of workplace surveillance tools and an employer’s use of worker data. Prohibits an employer from using a workplace surveillance tool to infer specified categories of information about a worker, including, among others, their immigration status, veteran status, ancestral history, religious or political beliefs, disability status, criminal record, or credit history. Authorizes an employee to bring a civil action for specified remedies for a violation of such provisions. | 5/23/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Electronic_monitor; Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Surveillance; Employment_relations: Employment_tool; Prohibited_Practices: Whistleblower; |
| CA | Senate | 310 | Failure to Pay Wages: Penalties | Permits the penalty to be recovered through an independent civil action. Relates to law that makes every person who fails to pay the wages of each employee subject to a specified penalty. Relates to law requires the penalty to either be recovered by an employee as a statutory penalty or by the Labor Commissioner as a civil penalty, as prescribed. | 6/5/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; |
| CA | Assembly | 751 | Rest Periods: Petroleum Facilities: Safety Sensitive | Provides that existing law provides an exemption from mandated rest period requirements for specified employees who hold a safety-sensitive position at a petroleum facility to the extent that the employee is required to carry and monitor a communication device and to respond to emergencies. Extends that exemption indefinitely. Specifies that the exemption also applies to employees who hold a safety-sensitive position at a refinery that produces fuel through the processing of alternative feedstock. | 7/14/2025 | 01/01/2026 | Hours_worked: Meal_break; Hours_worked: Rest_break; Industry: Petroleum_refinery; |
| CA | Senate | 648 | Employment: Gratuities: Enforcement | Authorizes the Labor Commissioner to investigate and issue a citation or file a civil action for gratuities taken or withheld in violation of prohibitions against an employer or agent from collecting, taking, or receiving any gratuity or a part thereof that is paid, given to, or left for an employee by a patron, or deducting any amount from wages due an employee on account of a gratuity, or requiring an employee to credit the amount, or any part thereof, of a gratuity against and as a part of the wages. | 7/30/2025 | 01/01/2026 | Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; Wage_and_Hour: Credit_card_fees; Wage_and_Hour: Gratuities; Wage_and_Hour: Tips; |
| CA | Senate | 693 | Employees: Meal Periods | Creates an exception from the prohibition against an employer from employing an employee for a work period of more than 5 hours per day without providing the employee with a meal period of not less than 30 minutes, for employees of a water corporation, as defined. | 7/30/2025 | 01/01/2026 | Hours_worked: Meal_break; |
| CA | Assembly | 340 | Employer-Employee Relations: Confidential Communication | Prohibits a public employer from compelling a public employee, a representative of a recognized employee organization, or an exclusive representative to disclose confidential communications to a third party. Provides that this would not apply to a criminal investigation or when a public safety officer is under investigation and certain circumstances exist. | 8/29/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| CA | Assembly | 485 | Labor Commissioner: Unsatisfied Judgments: Nonpayment | Relates to unpaid wages. Requires a State agency, if an employer that is required to obtain a license or permit from that agency is found to have violated certain unsatisfied judgment provisions, to deny a new license or permit or the renewal of an existing license or permit for that employer. Permits the State Public Health Officer to exempt a hospital employer from certain requirements under certain conditions. | 8/29/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Stop_work_order; Claims_and_Penalties: Suspend; Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; |
| CA | Assembly | 1251 | Job Postings | Provides that existing law requires certain employers to disclose certain salary information in job postings. Requires a private employer who publicly advertises a job posting to include in the posting a statement disclosing whether the posting is for a vacancy for the advertised position or not. | 8/29/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employment_relations: Job_advertisements; Employment_relations: Job_postings; |
| CA | Assembly | 1234 | Employment: Nonpayment of Wages: Complaints | Provides that existing law authorizes the Labor Commissioner to investigate employee complaints and to provide for a hearing in any action to recover wages, penalties, and other demands for compensation. Authorizes the Labor Commissioner, in an order, decision, or award granted pursuant to specified provisions, to impose an administrative fee of up to a specified percent of the award. Requires the administrative fee to be deposited into the Wage Recovery Fund. | 9/3/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; |
| CA | Assembly | 1048 | Workers Compensation | Relates to the workers’ compensation system. Relates to change, or denial of an item or procedure is a contract, require the explanation of review to include information on that underlying contract, including whom the medical provider may contact to seek a copy of the relevant, applicable contract. States that disclosure of a medical provider network does not satisfy this requirement and would state that if the contract is not received within 30 business days of the provider’s request, the bill shall be. | 9/8/2025 | | |
| CA | Assembly | 1515 | Professional Employer Organizations | Prohibits a person from providing, advertising, or otherwise holding oneself out as providing professional employer services in the State unless the person is registered with the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement. Requires a professional employer organization, upon registration, to pay an initial registration fee established by the division not to exceed the reasonable cost of registration. | 9/8/2025 | | Industry: PEO; |
| CA | Assembly | 283 | In-Home Supportive Services Employer-Employee Relations | Expands the definition of public employer to include an employer who is subject to the In-Home Supportive Services Employer-Employee Relations Act, which is created. Establishes a method for resolving disputes regarding wages, benefits, and other terms and conditions of employment between the state and recognized employee organizations representing individual providers. | 9/9/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| CA | Assembly | 596 | Elections: Ballot Disclosures | Requires the Secretary of State to create an internet website or to use other available technology to consolidate information about each state ballot measure, including a list of the top 10 contributors supporting or opposing a measure. Requires the 3 largest contributors of $100,000 or more to all committees that paid for the circulation of a statewide initiative or statewide referendum measure to also be printed on the ballot immediately following the names of the measure’s supporters and opponents. | 9/13/2025 | | Workplace_Behavior: Masks; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; |
| CA | Assembly | 1331 | Workplace Surveillance | Limits the use of workplace surveillance tools by employers, including by prohibiting an employer from monitoring or surveilling workers in employee-only, employer-designated areas. Provides workers with the right to leave behind workplace surveillance tools that are on their person or in their possession during off-duty hours. Prohibits a worker from removing or physically tampering with any component of a workplace surveillance tool that is part of or embedded in employer equipment or vehicles. | 9/13/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Surveillance; Employer_Obligations: Technology; Employment_relations: Employment_tool; |
| CA | Senate | 53 | Artificial Intelligence Models: Large Developers | Enacts the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act. Provides that the TFAIA would exempt from the California Public Records Act a report of a critical safety incident submitted to the Office of Emergency Services, a report of assessments of catastrophic risk from internet use, and a covered employee report made pursuant to the whistleblower protections. | 9/29/2025 | 01/01/2026 | Prohibited_Practices: Whistleblower; |
| CA | Assembly | 406 | Employment: Unlawful Discrimination: Victims | Provides that existing law prohibits certain employers from discharging or discriminating or retaliating against an employee who is a victim of violence or who has a family member who is a victim for taking time off work for purposes relating to a qualifying act of violence. Reinstates certain provisions to apply only to alleged actions or inactions occurring on or before the specified date. Transfers authority to the Civil Rights Department. Declares the urgency of such provisions. | 10/1/2025 | 10/01/2025 | Leave_laws: Victim; Prohibited_Practices: Victim_status; |
| CA | Senate | 617 | California Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act | Requires employers to include in the notice whether the employer plans to coordinate services through the local workforce development board or another entity and information regarding the statewide food assistance program known as CalFresh. | 10/1/2025 | 01/01/2026 | Employer_Obligations: Closed_business; Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employment_relations: Mass_layoff; Employment_relations: Relocation; |
| CA | Assembly | 374 | K-14 Classified Employees: Payment of Wages | Requires a public school employer, including the governing board of a school district, a school district, a county board of education, a county superintendent of schools, a charter school, an auxiliary organization, or a joint powers agency, and a community college district to, among other things, furnish to a classified school employee at the time of each payment of wages an accurate statement in writing and in a specified format that shows specified information, including, among other things, gross wages. | 10/3/2025 | | |
| CA | Assembly | 858 | Employment: Rehiring and Retention: Displaced Workers | Requires an employer, as defined, to offer its laid-off employees specified information about job positions that become available for which the laid-off employees are qualified, and to offer positions to those laid-off employees based on a preference system, in accordance with specified timelines and procedures. | 10/3/2025 | 01/01/2026 | Employer_Obligations: Reinstatement; Employment_relations: Layoff; Industry: Airport; Industry: Building_services; Industry: Event_center; Industry: Hotels Industry: Private_club |
| CA | Assembly | 1514 | Worker Classification: Employees | Provides that existing law exempts specified occupations and business relationships from the application of the ABC test to determine if workers are employees or independent contractors for purposes of the Labor Code, the Unemployment Insurance Code, and the wage orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission. Requires specified entities to report to the Legislature the annual number of allegations of misclassification or other specified violations involving licensed manicurists since January 1, 2020. | 10/3/2025 | 01/01/2026 | Employment_relations: Independent_contract; |
| CA | Assembly | 268 | State Holidays: Diwali | Adds Diwali to the list of state holidays. Authorizes community colleges and public schools to close on Diwali, as specified. Authorizes state employees to elect to take time off with pay in recognition of Diwali, as specified. | 10/6/2025 | 01/01/2026 | Leave_laws: Diwali; Leave_laws: Holidays; |
| CA | Senate | 642 | Employment: Payment of Wages | Prohibits an employer from paying employees at wage rates less than the rates paid to employees of another sex instead of the opposite sex, and requires a civil action to recover wages to be commenced no later than a specified number of years after the last date the cause of action occurs. Provides that an employee is entitled to obtain relief for the entire period of time in which a violation of certain provisions exists, but not to exceed a specified number of years. | 10/8/2025 | 01/01/2026 | Claims_and_Penalties: Civil_action; Claims_and_Penalties: Statute_limitations; Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; |
| CA | Assembly | 1002 | Contractors: Failure to Pay Wages: Discipline | Authorizes the Attorney General to bring a civil action to impose discipline upon, to deny an application for, or to deny continued maintenance of, a contractor’s license for failing to pay its workers the full amount of wages the workers are entitled to under State law or because the contractor has not fulfilled a wage judgment or is in violation of an injunction or court order regarding the payment of wages to its workers. | 10/10/2025 | 01/01/2026 | Claims_and_Penalties: Suspend; Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; Industry: General_contractor; Industry: Subcontractor; |
| CA | Assembly | 538 | Public Works: Payroll Records | Relates to existing law which requires each contractor and subcontractor on a public works project to keep accurate payroll records. Requires the awarding body, if a request is made by the public through the awarding body and the body is not in possession of the certified records, to obtain those records from the relevant contractor and make them available to the requesting entity. Authorizes the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement to enforce certain penalties. | 10/11/2025 | 01/01/2026 | Employer_Obligations: Recordkeeping; Industry: General_contractor; Industry: Govt_contractor; Industry: Subcontractors; |
| CA | Assembly | 845 | Employment: Complaints: Agricultural Employees | Requires the Agricultural Labor Relations Board, Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, or Division of Occupational Safety and Health, upon intake of a complaint from an agricultural employee by any department, division, or board within the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, to collaborate with each other and take all reasonable efforts to transmit the complaint to the appropriate entity for processing and investigation. | 10/11/2025 | 01/01/2026 | Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: Heat; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; |
| CA | Assembly | 889 | Prevailing Wage: Per Diem Wages | Authorizes an employer to take full credit for the hourly amounts contributed to defined contribution pension plans that provide for both immediate participation and essentially immediate vesting even if the employer contributes at a lower rate or does not make contributions to private construction. Requires the employer to prove that the credit for employer payments was calculated properly. | 10/11/2025 | 01/01/2026 | |
| CA | Assembly | 1326 | Health Masks: Right To Wear | Provides that an individual’s right to wear a mask on their face in a public place for specified purpose would not be construed as limiting or otherwise modifying the application or implementation of certain requirements for the removal of a health mask relating to, among other contexts, security protocols to identify an individual, essential functions in the workplace, or emergency health care protocols, without limiting certain nondiscrimination protections on the basis of disability or medical condition. | 10/11/2025 | | Employment_relations: Seasonal_employees; Leave_laws: Emergency; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| CA | Senate | 809 | Employees and Independent Contractors: Construction | Establishes the Construction Trucking Employer Amnesty Program, to be administered by the Labor Commissioner and the Employment Development Department. Provides that an eligible construction contractor would be relieved of liability for statutory or civil penalties associated with the misclassification of construction drivers as independent contractors, if the eligible construction contractor executes a settlement agreement negotiated with, or approved by, the commissioner prior to the specified date. | 10/11/2025 | 01/01/2026 | Employment_relations: Employee; Employment_relations: Independent_contract; |
| CA | Senate | 294 | The Workplace Know Your Rights Act | Establishes the Workplace Know Your Rights Act. Requires the Labor Commissioner to post the template notice on its internet website on or before January 1, 2026, and to post an updated template notice annually thereafter. Requires the Agricultural Labor Relations Board, the Public Employment Relations Board, and the Attorney General’s office to provide specified input for the template notice and the videos. | 10/12/2025 | 01/01/2026 | Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employment_relations: Current_employees; Employment_relations: New_employee; |
| CA | Assembly | 82 | Health Care: Legally Protected Health Care Activity | Expands the Address Confidentiality Program to a gender-affirming health care provider, employee or volunteer who faces threats of violence or harassment because of affiliation with a gender-affirming health services facility. Prohibits a person, business or association from soliciting, selling or trading on the internet or social media personal information or images of providers, employees, volunteers or patients with certain intent. Prohibits certain reports of testosterone or mifepristone prescriptions. | 10/13/2025 | 01/01/2026 | Employer_Obligations: Confidential_info; Industry: Health_care; |
| CA | Assembly | 692 | Employment: Contracts in Restraint of Trade | Makes it unlawful to include in any employment contract, or to require a worker to execute as a condition of employment or a work relationship a contract that includes, specified contract terms, including a term that requires the worker to pay an employer, training provider, or debt collector for a debt if the worker’s employment or work relationship with a specific employer terminates. | 10/13/2025 | 01/01/2026 | Agreements: Employment; Wage_Payment: Repayment_obligation; |
| CA | Assembly | 963 | Public Works: Prevailing Wages: Access to Records | Requires an owner or developer undertaking any work, subject to the prevailing wage requirements, to make specified records available upon request to the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, to multiemployer Taft-Hartley trust funds, and to joint labor-management committees. Sets forth timelines for the owner or developer to comply with a request for records and for a fund or committee to submit a complaint to the division in case of an owner’s or developer’s failure to comply. | 10/13/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Prevailing_wage; |
| CA | Assembly | 1136 | Employment: Immigration and Work Authorization | Requires an employer that is notified that an employee has been detained or incarcerated as a result of pending immigration or deportation proceedings to place the employee on an unpaid leave of absence for a period pending the employee’s release from detainment or incarceration, not to exceed a specified number of months. | 10/13/2025 | | Leave_laws: Immigration_hearing; Prohibited_Practices: Immigration_status; Prohibited_Practices: National_origin; |
| CA | Assembly | 1336 | Farmworkers: Benefits | Creates a disputable presumption that a heat-related injury that develops within a specified timeframe after working outdoors for an employer in the agriculture industry that fails to comply with heat illness prevention standards, as defined, arose out of and came in the course of employment. | 10/13/2025 | | Employment_relations: Agricultural_employe; Industry: Agriculture; Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: Heat; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; |
| CA | Senate | 8 | Peace Officers: Injury or Illness: Leaves of Absence | Provides that existing law entitles local law enforcement, probation officers and firefighters to a leave of absence while disabled by injury or illness arising out of their duties. Provides that existing law provides that such leave is in lieu of temporary disability payments or maintenance allowance payments otherwise payable under the workers compensation system. Entitles specified peace officers who are employed on a regular, full time basis by a county of the eighth class to this leave. | 10/13/2025 | 01/01/2026 | Industry: Public_employer; |
| CA | Senate | 20 | High-exposure Trigger Tasks On Artificial Stone | Provides that the California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973 (OSHA), requires employers to comply with certain safety and health standards and charges the Division of Occupational Safety and Health with enforcement of the act. Adds silicosis and silica-related lung cancer to the list of conditions that, if resulting from an injury or illness occurring in a place of employment or in connection with an employment, would constitute a serious injury or illness. | 10/13/2025 | 01/01/2026 | Workplace_Behavior: Health; |
| CA | Senate | 261 | Division of Labor Standards Enforcement: Orders | Provides that existing law provides that the judgment creditor, or the commissioner, as assignee of the judgment creditor, is entitled to court costs and reasonable attorney’s fees for enforcing the judgment. Requires that the judgment creditor, or the Labor Commissioner or public prosecutor as assignee of the judgment creditor, be awarded the court costs and reasonable attorney’s fees. | 10/13/2025 | 01/01/2026 | Claims_and_Penalties: Civil_penalty; Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; |
| CA | Senate | 464 | Employer Pay Data | Requires an employer to collect and store any demographic information gathered by an employer or labor contractor for the purpose of submitting the pay data report separately from employees’ personnel records, and, beginning January 1, 2027, increase the number of job categories to 23. Requires public employers with 100 or more employees to submit an annual pay data report with specified information, including specified demographic data provided by employees relative to ethnicity, race, disability. | 10/13/2025 | 01/01/2026 | Industry: Public_employer; |
| CA | Senate | 590 | Paid Family Leave: Eligibility | Provides that existing law establishes a family temporary disability insurance program, also known as the Paid Family Leave Program. Expands eligibility for benefits under the Paid Family Leave Program to include individuals who take time off work to care for a seriously ill designated person. Defines designated person to mean any care recipient related by blood or whose association with the individual is the equivalent of a family relationship. | 10/13/2025 | 01/01/2026 | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| CA | Senate | 597 | Labor-Related Liabilities: Direct Contractor | Requires, for certain contracts, a direct contractor making or taking a contract in the State for the erection, construction, alteration, or repair of a building, structure, or other private work, to assume, and be liable for, any indebtedness for the performance of labor. Provides that existing law requires certain housing developments to meet certain labor standards, including certain health care expenditures. Grants a joint labor-management cooperation committee standing to sue under certain provisions. | 10/13/2025 | 01/01/2026 | Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; Industry: Construction_service; Industry: General_contractor; Industry: Subcontractor; |
| CO | Senate | 74 | Highly Specialized Employment Leave Protection | Concerns creating an exemption to the employment protection requirements under the paid family and medical leave insurance act for an employer that has a workforce consisting of a majority of highly specialized employees. | 2/11/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| CO | Senate | 5 | Unfair Labor Practices | Eliminates the requirement for a second election to negotiate a union security agreement clause in the collective bargaining process; reduces an appropriation to the Department of Labor and Employment for use by the Division of Labor Standards and Statistics for Labor Standards Program costs. | 5/16/2025 | | Agreements: Collective_bargainin; |
| CO | House | 1001 | Wage and Hour Laws | Prohibits an employer from making a payroll deduction below a workers applicable minimum wage; allows the Director of the Division of Labor Standards and Statistics to waive the penalty for an employers failure to pay claimed wages or compensation within a certain period if certain specified conditions are met; increases the threshold for certain claims to be adjudicated by the director; specifies fines for employee misclassification; appropriates funds to the Department of Labor and Employment. | 5/28/2025 | 08/06/2025 | Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; Prohibited_Practices: Legal_work_status; Prohibited_Practices: Retaliation; |
| CO | House | 1239 | State Anti Discrimination Act | Consolidates damages provisions for individuals with disabilities who experience an unfair housing practice, discrimination in places of public accommodation, or a violation of their civil rights with the State Anti Discrimination Act; specifies allowable remedies, including a court order requiring compliance and damages; extends the deadline for filing a charge with the State Civil Rights Commission alleging, among other things, discriminatory advertising; appropriates funds to the Department of Law. | 5/28/2025 | 08/06/2025 | Claims_and_Penalties: Civil_action; Employer_Obligations: Accommodation; Prohibited_Practices: Disability; Prohibited_Practices: Discrimination; |
| CO | Senate | 144 | Family Medical Leave Insurance | Concerns changes to the paid family and medical leave insurance act. | 6/3/2025 | 08/06/2025 | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| CO | House | 1208 | Local Governments Tip Offsets for Tipped Employees | Concerns increasing the amount of the tip offset associated with a local government’s minimum wage, and, in connection therewith, requiring a local government that enacts a local minimum wage that exceeds the state minimum wage to satisfy certain requirements in determining the amount of the tip offset associated with the local government’s minimum wage. | 6/11/2025 | 07/01/2025 | Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Tip_credit; Wage_and_Hour: Tips; |
| CO | Senate | 83 | Limitations on Restrictive Employment Agreements | Prohibits a covenant that prevents or materially restricts a health-care provider from disclosing to a patient to whom the health-care provider was providing consultation or treatment before the health-care provider’s departure from a medical practice the health-care provider’s continuing practice of medicine, the health-care provider’s new professional contact information or patient’s right to choose a medical provider. | 6/11/2025 | 08/06/2025 | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Non-compete; Industry: Health_care; |
| CT | House | 6774 | Long Term Care Facility Employee | Concerns long-term care facility employee and volunteer background checks. | 2/27/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Background_checks; Employment_relations: Prospective_employee; Employment_relations: Volunteer; Industry: Long-term_care; |
| CT | House | 5306 | Long Term Care Facility Employee | Concerns long-term care facility employee and volunteer background checks; prevents elder abuse by requiring all prospective employees and volunteers of long-term care facilities to submit to background checks. | 3/11/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Background_checks; Employment_relations: Prospective_employee; Industry: Long-term_care; |
| CT | Senate | 1007 | Health Insurance Coverage for Early Child Care Workers | Concerns health insurance coverage for Early child care workers; allows any Early child care worker to obtain health insurance coverage under the state employee health plan. | 3/18/2025 | | Benefits: Health_insurance; Employment_relations: Child_care_worker; |
| CT | Senate | 1008 | Health Insurance Coverage for Nonprofits | Concerns health insurance coverage for nonprofits under the state employee health plan; allows any nonprofit to obtain health insurance coverage under the state employee health plan. | 3/18/2025 | | Benefits: Health_insurance; Industry: Non-profit; |
| CT | Senate | 1254 | Warehouse Workers | Establishes additional protections for warehouse workers. | 3/24/2025 | | Industry: Warehouses; Wage_and_Hour: Quotas; Wage_and_Hour: Work_speed; |
| CT | House | 5094 | Prevailing Wage Requirements and Thresholds | Concerns prevailing wage requirements and thresholds; strengthens prevailing wage requirements and increase the threshold for new construction. | 3/25/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Prevailing_wage; |
| CT | House | 5184 | Option To Not Participate in the Paid Family | Creates the option to not participate in the paid family and medical leave insurance program; allows an employee to opt out of both making contributions to and filing a claim for benefits from the Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program. | 3/25/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| CT | House | 5185 | Public Employees Right To Be a Member of a Union | Concerns a public employee’s right to be a member of a union; provides clear disclosures on state and municipal collective bargaining agreements of an employee’s right to opt out of membership in a union. | 3/25/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| CT | House | 5761 | Subminimum Wage | Eliminates the subminimum wage in the state. | 3/25/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Subminimum_wage; |
| CT | House | 5762 | Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program | Concerns accommodations for employees under the paid family and medical leave insurance program. | 3/25/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Accommodation; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| CT | House | 5763 | Compensation for Bereavement Leave | Concerns compensation for bereavement leave under the paid family and medical leave insurance program; allows persons who are grieving the loss of a loved one to qualify for compensation under the Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program. | 3/25/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bereavement; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| CT | House | 5776 | Salaries of State Employees | Freezes wage and salary increases for State employees for a period of at least a specified number of years. | 3/25/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| CT | House | 5785 | Minimum Wage Requirements | Exempts nonprofit organizations from the requirement for employers to pay their employees the minimum wage. | 3/25/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Exemptions; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| CT | House | 5793 | Reporting of Newly Hired Employees | Concerns the reporting of newly hired employees to the Labor Department; streamlines administrative reporting for employers who employ seasonal employees. | 3/25/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Reporting_required; Employment_relations: New_employee; Employment_relations: Seasonal_employees; |
| CT | House | 6401 | Employees of Cannabis Retailers | Concerns wages of employees of cannabis retailers; ensures that the subminimum wage statute is not applied to employees of cannabis retailers. | 3/25/2025 | | Industry: Marijuana; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Subminimum_wage; |
| CT | House | 6406 | Municipalities and the Paid Sick Leave Statutes | Concerns municipalities and the paid sick leave statutes; amends the paid sick leave statutes to include municipalities. | 3/25/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| CT | House | 6410 | Paid Prenatal Leave for Pregnant Employees | Concerns paid prenatal leave for pregnant employees; ensures mothers receive prenatal care without putting their jobs at risk. | 3/25/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Pregnancy; |
| CT | House | 6416 | Minimum Wage Rate for Persons Under the Age of Eighteen | Concerns the minimum wage rate for persons under the age of eighteen years; reduces the minimum wage rate for persons under the age of eighteen years and eliminate the ninety-day limitation of such minimum wage rate. | 3/25/2025 | | Employment_relations: Under_18; Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; Wage_and_Hour: Subminimum_wage; |
| CT | House | 6519 | Employee Contribution for the Paid Family | Reduces the percentage of an employee’s subject earnings an employee must contribute to the Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Trust Fund. | 3/25/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| CT | Senate | 221 | Collective Bargaining Agreements | Requires a clear and conspicuous statement concerning an employees right to not participate in a union; provides clear disclosures on collective bargaining agreements of a public employees right to opt out of membership in a union. | 3/25/2025 | | Labor_Law: Right_to_work; |
| CT | Senate | 222 | Paid Sick Leave Advance Notice | Relates to advance notice of the need to use paid sick leave; allows an employer to require an employee to provide advance notice of the intention to use paid sick leave if such leave is foreseeable. | 3/25/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| CT | Senate | 227 | State Employees Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance | Concerns state employees’ participation in the paid family and medical leave insurance program; includes state employees in the Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program. | 3/25/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| CT | Senate | 356 | Documentation for the Use of Paid Sick Leave | Concerns documentation for the use of paid sick leave; allows employers to require documentation that an employee’s use of paid sick leave is being taken for a permitted purpose. | 3/25/2025 | | Employee_obligation: Notice; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| CT | Senate | 621 | Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program | Makes the State Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program an opt-in program. | 3/25/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| CT | Senate | 622 | Medical Leave Insurance Program Tax | Eliminates the exemption of public employees from participation in the paid family and medical leave insurance program; removes the exemption of public employees from participation in the Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program and require all public employees to pay the Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program tax. | 3/25/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| CT | Senate | 623 | Paid Sick Leave | Eliminates the requirement that employers provide paid sick leave in the event of closure by order of a public official due to a public health emergency. | 3/25/2025 | | Leave_laws: Closure; Leave_laws: Emergency; |
| CT | Senate | 625 | Paid Sick Leave Statutes | Defines day for purposes of the paid sick leave statutes; defines day as a specified number of hours worked by an employee. | 3/25/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| CT | Senate | 626 | Municipalities and the Paid Sick Leave Statutes | Relates to municipalities and the paid sick leave statutes; exempts municipalities from the definition of employer. | 3/25/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| CT | Senate | 693 | Employee Contributions | Concerns employee contributions to the paid family and medical leave program; reduces the Connecticut Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance tax from one-half of one per cent to four-tenths of one per cent. | 3/25/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| CT | Senate | 694 | Paid Family and Medical Leave Program | Concerns participation in the paid family and medical leave program; allows an employee to withdraw from the Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program and no longer be subject to the Paid Family and Medical Leave tax or eligible for benefits under the program. | 3/25/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| CT | Senate | 831 | Employees Work Schedule | Requires employers to provide advance notice to certain employees of such employees’ work schedule and work schedule changes and create a cause of action for violations of advance notice requirements. | 3/25/2025 | | Employee_obligation: Request; Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Posting_requirement; Employer_Obligations: Recordkeeping; Employment_relations: Current_employees; Employment_relations: Hiring Employment_relations: New_employee Employment_relations: Work_schedule Hours_worked: Extended_rest_period Industry: Food_services Industry: Hospitality Industry: Large_employers Industry: Long-term_care Prohibited_Practices: Whistleblower |
| CT | Senate | 1032 | Paid Family and Medical Leave To All Employees | Expands the Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program to include all employees, including those under collective bargaining agreements. | 3/25/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| CT | Senate | 1223 | Paid Prenatal Leave | Concerns paid prenatal leave; requires employers to provide twenty hours of paid leave for pregnancy-related health care. | 3/25/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Pregnancy; |
| CT | Senate | 1030 | Breastfeeding in the Workplace | Concerns breastfeeding in the workplace; provides that an employer shall provide a reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for such employee’s nursing child or breastfeed on site at her workplace each time such employee has the need to express breast milk or breastfeed. | 3/27/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Breastfeeding; Employer_Obligations: Express_milk; Employer_Obligations: Lactation; Employment_relations: Nursing_mothers; Hours_worked: Rest_break; |
| CT | House | 6955 | Liability of a Contractor for Unpaid Wages Owed | Concerns the liability of a contractor for unpaid wages owed to an employee of a subcontractor for performance of labor on a construction contract. | 3/31/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Joint_liability; Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; Industry: General_contractor; Industry: Subcontractor; |
| CT | House | 7197 | Paycheck Transparency | Requires paycheck transparency; requires employers to create a guide to help employees understand the pay codes used by an employer on employee records of hours worked. | 4/3/2025 | | Wage_Payment: Wage_payment; Wage_Payment: Wage_statement; |
| CT | Senate | 830 | Safety Standards | Establishes safety standards to prevent heat-related illness in workplaces; provides that if an employee is showing signs or experiencing symptoms of heat illness, an employer shall allow the employee to remain in the shade until such signs or symptoms subside, and, if necessary, implement the emergency response procedures. | 4/7/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Policy_requirement; Employer_Obligations: Training; Workplace_Behavior: Heat; Workplace_Behavior: Shade; Workplace_Behavior: Water; |
| CT | Senate | 1442 | Legal Proceedings | Concerns legal proceedings conducted by the commission on human rights and opportunities; defines employer’s agent for purposes of the state’s discrimination laws; makes conforming statutory changes relating to an individual’s status as a victim of domestic violence; clarifies when requests for early legal intervention can be made; clarifies when commission proceedings may be reopened or appealed; aligns state law with federal law concerning a complainant’s ability to pursue a matter in state court. | 4/24/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Domestic_violence; Prohibited_Practices: Victim_status; |
| CT | Senate | 1484 | Artificial Intelligence Protections for Employees | Implements artificial intelligence protections for employees; limits the use of electronic monitoring by an employer; establishes various requirements concerning the use of artificial intelligence systems by employers. | 5/7/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Electronic_monitor; Employer_Obligations: Location_tracking; |
| CT | House | 6907 | Use of Quotas By Warehouse Distribution Centers | Concerns the use of quotas by warehouse distribution centers; provides that whenever an employer makes a change to an existing quota for an employee that results in a new quota for such employee, an employer shall, among other things, notify the employee of such change as soon as possible, either verbally or in writing, and prior to the effective date of such new quota. | 5/9/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Recordkeeping; Wage_and_Hour: Quotas; Wage_and_Hour: Work_speed; |
| CT | House | 6842 | Minimum Fair Wage | Concerns the minimum fair wage and persons employed at cannabis establishments; provides that in no event shall the Labor Commissioner recognize, as part of the minimum fair wage, gratuities for persons employed at a cannabis establishment, dispensary facility or producer. | 5/12/2025 | | Industry: Marijuana; Wage_and_Hour: Gratuities; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Tips; |
| CT | Senate | 1035 | Limitations on the Use of Nondisclosure Agreements | Concerns limitations on the use of nondisclosure agreements; provides that for an employer, by the employer or the employer’s agent to refuse to hire or employ, discriminate in compensation or in terms, conditions or privileges of employment, or bar or discharge from employment, any employee or independent contractor because such person disclosed conduct the person reasonably believes to be a discriminatory employment practice, or because such person disparaged the employer. | 5/13/2025 | | Agreements: Non-disclosure; Agreements: Non-disparagement; Prohibited_Practices: Discrimination; |
| CT | Senate | 1370 | Workers Performing Off Site Custom Fabrication | Requires workers performing off-site custom fabrication for a public works project to be paid prevailing wage rates; provides that each contract for the construction, remodeling, refinishing, refurbishing, rehabilitation, alteration or repair of any public works project by the state or any of its agents, or by any political subdivision of the state or any of its agents, each contract for off-site custom fabrication for any such public works project. | 5/13/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Prevailing_wage; |
| CT | House | 7196 | Limitations on the Use of Noncompete Agreements | Concerns limitations on the use of noncompete agreements. | 5/14/2025 | | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Non-compete; Employment_relations: Low_wage_employee; |
| CT | Senate | 1488 | Payment for Violations of Prevailing Wage Statutes | Authorizes the comptroller to withhold payment for violations of the prevailing wage statutes; provides that the commissioner may notify the Comptroller, in a form and manner prescribed by the Comptroller, of the issuance of such stop work order against a contractor or subcontractor performing work on a public works project. | 5/16/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Prevailing_wage; |
| CT | House | 5607 | Subminimum Wage for Persons With Disabilities | Establishes a task force to study eliminating the subminimum wage for persons with disabilities. | 5/31/2025 | | Employment_relations: Disabled_employee; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Subminimum_wage; |
| CT | Senate | 8 | Workers Rights | Concerns protections for workers and enhancements to workers’ rights. | 6/23/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Terms_and_conditions; Industry: Warehouses; Wage_and_Hour: Work_speed; |
| DC | DC | B | Labor and Safety Omnibus Temporary Amendment Act | (Temporary Act) Amends the Minimum Wage Act Revision Act of 1992 to postpone the date on which the first increase to the tipped minimum wage takes effect from specified date; amends the Secure DC Omnibus Amendment Act of 2024 to reflect that certain provisions are funded in specified fiscal year; amends the District of Columbia Government Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act of 1978 to place the burden of demonstrating that a matter is expressly outside the scope of collective bargaining on management. | 12/12/2024 | | Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Tip_credit; Wage_and_Hour: Tips; |
| DC | B | 114 | Pay Our Youth a Fair Summer Wage Amendment Act | Amends the Youth Employment Act of 1979, to raise the wages of participants of the Marion Barry Summer Youth Employment Program. | 2/6/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Subminimum_wage; |
| DC | DC | B | Electrical Utility Underground Work Wage Act | Establishes a prevailing wage for workers employed on underground utility work by a contractor or subcontractor of a gas company or an electric company, and to provide for wage enforcement by the government of the District of Columbia. | 3/21/2025 | | Employment_relations: Underground_workers; Wage_and_Hour: Hazard_pay; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| DC | DC | B | Entertainment Establishment Employee Safety Temporary | (Temporary Act) Amends Section 28-5404 of the District of Columbia Official Code to allow retail establishments with a valid on-premises Class C or Class D retailer license to refuse cash as a form of payment. | 3/21/2025 | | Industry: Entertainment; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; |
| DC | B | 340 | Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Support | (Emergency Act) Enacts and amend, on an emergency basis, provisions of law necessary to support the Fiscal Year 2026 budget and for other purposes. | 9/3/2025 | 09/03/2025 | Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Tip_credit; Wage_and_Hour: Tips; |
| DC | B | 265 | Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Support Act of 2025 | Enacts and amends provisions of law necessary to support the Fiscal Year 2026 budget and for other purposes. | 9/10/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Tip_credit; Wage_and_Hour: Tips; |
| DC | B | 428 | Youth Work Permit and Employment Protection Act | Prohibits the employment of minors younger than 14 years of age, to regulate the hours of employment of minors between the ages of 14 and 17, to require that employers post notice of the regulations for employment of minors, to prohibit the employment of minors in occupations deemed dangerous, to provide for the Mayor to issue rules identifying certain places of employment and occupations deemed dangerous, to require the Mayor to hold public hearings prior to issuing certain rules. | 10/9/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| DC | B | 265 | Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Support Act of 2025 | Enacts and amends provisions of law necessary to support the Fiscal Year 2026 budget and for other purposes. | 12/6/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Tip_credit; Wage_and_Hour: Tips; |
| DE | House | 115 | Prohibition of Discrimination | Prohibits discrimination based on weight, height, or body size in transportation, public accommodation, housing, commerce and trade, employment, jury selection, education, and public administration; makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the State Legislative Drafting Manual. | 4/8/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Body_type; Prohibited_Practices: Height; Prohibited_Practices: Size; |
| DE | House | 179 | Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program | Changes the definition of employer in the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program to exclude anyone who employs less than 25 employees in this State. | 5/21/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| DE | House | 181 | Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program | Removes penalties for all violations of the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program until January 29, 2029. | 6/17/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| DE | House | 20 | Criminal Background Checks | Relates to criminal background checks for Department of Labor employees, contractors, and subcontractors with access to confidential or sensitive information; requires criminal background checks and fingerprinting; provides that all individuals seeking to become an employee, contractor, subcontractor, or volunteer of the Department in or seeking a promotion or transfer to a position or under a contract that provides access to federal tax information, must obtain a criminal background check. | 6/24/2025 | 06/24/2025 | Employer_Obligations: Background_checks; Employer_Obligations: Criminal_history; Industry: Govt_contractor; |
| DE | Senate | 194 | Warehouse Worker Protections | Establishes worker protections for employees who work in a warehouse distribution center; requires employers to provide each employee with a written description of any quota the employee may be subject to during their scope of employment; prohibits an employer from requiring an employee to meet a quota that would prevent the employee from being able to have meal and rest periods as required by Department of Labor standards. | 6/24/2025 | | Hours_worked: Meal_break; Hours_worked: Rest_break; Industry: Warehouses; Wage_and_Hour: Quotas; Wage_and_Hour: Work_speed; |
| DE | House | 55 | Discrimination Based on Military Status Prohibition | Supplements protections under federal law for members of the military, their families, and veterans by adding military status as a protected class for purposes of the State’s public accommodations, housing, insurance, education, and employment laws. | 7/23/2025 | 07/23/2025, 12/31/2028 | Prohibited_Practices: Military_status; |
| DE | House | 128 | Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program | Relates to the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program; provides that an individual filing a new claim for family and medical leave benefits shall disclose whether the individual owes child support; provides that disability insurance benefits may be offset by family and medical leave benefits pursuant to the terms of a policy; provides that an employer may not require a covered individual to use unused accrued paid time off prior to a covered individual accessing family and medical leave benefits. | 7/30/2025 | 07/30/2025 | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| DE | House | 36 | Discrimination Laws Alignment | Aligns Delaware’s non-discrimination Laws; aligns the narrower non-discrimination laws with the applicable broad non-discrimination law by also prohibiting discrimination on any other basis protected under the applicable broad law. | 8/20/2025 | 08/20/2025 | Prohibited_Practices: Discrimination; |
| DE | House | 47 | Background Checks | Incorporates changes made by HS1 for HB204, which was passed by both chambers during the 151st General Assembly, but never enacted into law; removes the exemption for private schools and youth camps that allows them to use a name-based, rather than a fingerprint-based, background check or choose not to do background checks at all for employees, contractors and volunteers; authorizes the Superintendent of State Police to promulgate regulations relating to re-use of a criminal background check. | 9/2/2025 | 07/01/2026 | Employer_Obligations: Background_checks; Industry: Child_care; |
| DE | House | 105 | Employment Practices | Empowers job applicants with crucial information to negotiate salaries and make informed career decisions; encourages businesses to proactively review compensation practices, address unjustified pay disparities, and strengthen their ability to attract and retain top talent; requires that employers include salary or wage range information and a general description of benefits in all postings for job opportunities, and ensures that applicants have access to that information. | 9/26/2025 | 09/26/2027 (Corrected) | Employer_Obligations: Wage-range; Employment_relations: Applicant; Employment_relations: Job_advertisements; Employment_relations: Job_postings; |
| FL | Senate | 922 | Employment Agreements | Creates The State Trade Secret Protection Act; provides that certain covered garden leave agreements are not a restraint of trade or an attempt to monopolize trade or commerce; requires a court to enter a preliminary injunction to stop covered employees, businesses, entities, or individuals if a breach of a covered garden leave agreement is alleged; provides that certain covered noncompete agreements are not a restraint of trade or an attempt to monopolize trade or commerce. | 4/24/2025 | | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Non-compete; |
| FL | House | 35 | Heat Illness Prevention | Requires certain employers to implement an outdoor heat exposure safety program that has been approved by specified departments; specifies requirements for the safety program; provides responsibilities for certain employers and employees; provides exceptions; requires specified annual trainings on heat illness and provides the requirements for such training. | 5/3/2025 | | Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: Heat; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; |
| FL | House | 485 | Invalid Restrictive Covenants With Physicians | Provides that restrictive covenants which prohibit physician from practicing medicine within specified area for certain period of time are void and unenforceable. | 5/3/2025 | | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Non-compete; Employment_relations: Physician; |
| FL | House | 1033 | Immigration Status and Employment Eligibility | Revises penalties for employment of unauthorized aliens; requires all private employers use E-Verify for a specified purpose; authorizes law enforcement agencies to use E-Verify for a specific purpose. | 5/3/2025 | | Employment_relations: E-verify; Employment_relations: Legal_work_status; |
| FL | House | 1177 | Labor Regulations | Provides that all employee organizations that are certified as bargaining agent, and not Just those representing certain employees, may deduct dues and assessments from salaries of certain employees; removes provision requiring certain employee organizations to petition for recertification; provides applicability; requires certain employers to implement outdoor heat exposure safety program that has been approved by specified departments. | 5/3/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Policy_requirement; Employer_Obligations: Training; Workplace_Behavior: Heat; Workplace_Behavior: Shade; Workplace_Behavior: Water; |
| FL | House | 1601 | Labor Regulations | Revises conditions under which employer may not take retaliatory personnel action against employee; requires employee to provide specified written notice to supervisor or employer; requires employee to provide employer reasonable opportunity to correct activity, policy, or practice; prohibits employee from recovering in specified actions unless employee took certain actions; requires employee to prove that employers reasons for certain retaliatory personnel action are false. | 5/3/2025 | | Industry: Govt_contractor; Prohibited_Practices: Retaliation; Prohibited_Practices: Whistleblower; |
| FL | House | 1619 | Employee Wages and Salary | Prohibits public employer, private employer, or employment agency from engaging in certain activities relating to wages and salary; authorizes public employer, private employer, or employment agency to confirm prospective employees wage or salary history under certain conditions; requires public employer, private employer, or employment agency to maintain certain records for specified time period; provides administrative, injunctive, and civil relief; provides civil penalties. | 5/3/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Salary_history; Employer_Obligations: Wage-range; Employer_Obligations: Wage_history; Employment_relations: Applicant; Employment_relations: Hiring; Employment_relations: Job_advertisements Employment_relations: Job_postings Employment_relations: Prospective_employee |
| FL | House | 1627 | Warehouse Distribution Centers | Requires certain employers to establish and administer safety committee; provides requirements for committee; provides requirements for certain employers relating to quotas, notices, employee protections, recordkeeping, adverse personnel action, enforcement, inspections, and reporting. | 5/3/2025 | | Employee_obligation: Request; Employer_Obligations: Committee; Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Recordkeeping; Employment_relations: New_employee; Industry: Warehouses Wage_and_Hour: Quotas Wage_and_Hour: Work_speed Workplace_Behavior: Health Workplace_Behavior: Safety |
| FL | House | 495 | Adverse Personnel Actions Against Employees | Prohibits agencies and independent contractors from taking specified actions against employees for disclosing certain information to Commission on Ethics; requires that information disclosed include specified violations or alleged violations; requires disclosure of specified information to commission; provides that specified provisions protect employees and persons who submit written complaints to commission or provide information to investigator during investigation of complaint. | 6/16/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| FL | House | 541 | Minimum Wage Requirements | Provides that employer is not subject to certain minimum wage requirements for specified employees; authorizes employees to opt out of minimum wage requirements in specified manner. | 6/16/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Exemptions; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| FL | House | 955 | Employment Eligibility | Requires that all private employers, Rather than only those employing more than specified number of employees, use E-Verify system to verify new employees employment eligibility beginning on specified date. | 6/16/2025 | | Employment_relations: E-verify; Employment_relations: Legal_work_status; |
| FL | House | 1225 | Employment of Minors | Prohibits political subdivisions from maintaining a minimum wage other than a state or federal minimum wage and provides construction; prohibits political subdivisions from maintaining a minimum wage other than a state or federal minimum wage; revises the age at which certain employment restrictions do not apply, except in accordance with federal law; removes the authority of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to grant a waiver of employment restrictions. | 6/16/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| FL | House | 1497 | Division of Labor Standards | Creates Division of Labor Standards for specified purposes; designates division as state Agency for Workforce Innovation for purposes of implementing article of State Constitution; revises provisions relating to state minimum wage including, protected rights, prohibition on certain contracts, process for filing complaint, statute of limitations during investigation, liability and recordkeeping; creates the Division of Labor Standards Community Advisory Board. | 6/16/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; Employment_relations: Employee; Employment_relations: Independent_contract; Prohibited_Practices: Retaliation; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| FL | Senate | 76 | Paid Parental Leave | Defines the term paid parental leave; requires the State to provide paid parental leave to certain employees for a specified period of time; prohibits the State from refusing to grant such leave. | 6/16/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| FL | Senate | 142 | Protections for Public Employees Who Use Marijuana | Prohibits a public employer from taking adverse personnel action against an employee or a job applicant for his or her use of medical marijuana if the employee or job applicant is a qualified patient; requires a public employer to provide written notice of an employees or a job applicant right to explain or contest a positive marijuana test result within a specified timeframe; provides a cause of action and damages. | 6/16/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| FL | Senate | 352 | Employee Protections | Prohibits agencies and independent contractors from taking specified actions against employees for disclosing certain information to the Commission on Ethics; provides that specified provisions protect employees and persons who submit written complaints to the commission or provide information to an investigator during an investigation of a complaint; authorizes certain employees or applicants for employment to file complaints in accordance with specified provisions. | 6/16/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| FL | Senate | 510 | Heat Illness Prevention | Requires certain employers to implement an outdoor heat exposure safety program that has been approved by specified departments; provides responsibilities for certain employers and employees; requires specified annual training on heat illness and providing requirements for such training. | 6/16/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Training; Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: Heat; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; Workplace_Behavior: Shade; Workplace_Behavior: Water |
| FL | Senate | 676 | Minimum Wage Requirements | Provides that an employer is not subject to certain minimum wage requirements for specified employees; authorizes employees to opt out of the minimum wage requirements in a specified manner. | 6/16/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Exemptions; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| FL | Senate | 918 | Employment of Minors | Deletes certain restrictions on minors 16 and 17 years of age being employed, permitted, or suffered to work; revises the exceptions to such restrictions for certain minors; deletes a provision authorizing the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to grant a waiver of such restrictions. | 6/16/2025 | | Employment_relations: Employee_16_to_17; Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| FL | Senate | 942 | Invalid Restrictive Covenants in Health Care | Specifies that certain restrictive covenants in employment agreements relating to certain licensed physicians are not supported by a legitimate business interest; declares that such restrictive covenants are void and unenforceable. | 6/16/2025 | | Employment_relations: Physician; |
| FL | Senate | 1706 | Warehouse Distribution Centers | Requires certain employers to establish and administer a safety committee; requires an employer to provide a specified written description to each employee within a specified time period; requires an employer to establish, maintain, and preserve specified records on each employee; authorizes certain persons to request specified information from an employer. | 6/16/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Committee; Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Recordkeeping; Employment_relations: New_employee; Industry: Warehouses; Wage_and_Hour: Quotas Wage_and_Hour: Work_speed Workplace_Behavior: Safety |
| FL | Senate | 1776 | Employment Rights | Revises the definition of the term independent contractor; revises the prohibitions against retaliatory personnel action against an employee by his or her employer; provides that an employee may not recover in an action against an employer for a retaliatory personnel action unless the employee can prove certain claims by clear and convincing evidence; requiring, rather than authorizing, a court to award reasonable attorney fees and costs to the prevailing party for retaliatory personnel actions. | 6/16/2025 | | Employment_relations: Employee; Employment_relations: Independent_contract; |
| FL | House | 1219 | CHOICE Act and the State Antitrust Act of 1980 | Provides for the State Contracts Honoring Opportunity, Investment, Confidentiality, and Economic Growth Act and the State Antitrust Act of 1980; relates to employment agreements; provides that certain covered garden leave agreements are not a restraint of trade or an attempt to monopolize trade or commerce; requires a court to enter a preliminary injunction to stop covered employees, businesses, entities, or individuals if a breach of a covered garden leave agreement is alleged. | 7/8/2025 | 07/01/2025 | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Employment; Agreements: Non-compete; |
| FL | H | 197 | Employment Eligibility | Requires that all private employers, rather than only those employing more than specified number of employees, use E-Verify system to verify new employees employment eligibility beginning on specified date. | 12/11/2025 | | Employment_relations: Legal_work_status; |
| FL | H | 641 | Gender Identity Employment Practices | Specifies employment policy of this state relating to persons sex; prohibits employees and contractors of certain employers from being required to use certain pronouns or requiring such employer to use pronoun that does not correspond to employees or contractors sex; prohibits certain forms from offering specified options relating to applicants sex; prohibits adverse personnel action on basis of gender ideology; provides administrative and civil remedies; provides reasonable attorney fees and costs. | 12/12/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Gender_expression; Prohibited_Practices: Gender_identity; Prohibited_Practices: Sexual_orientation; |
| GA | House | 16 | Warehouse Worker Protection Act | Provides protections for warehouse distribution center workers; requires a covered employer to provide to a covered employee in a warehouse distribution center a written description of any quota or workplace surveillance; prohibits unlawful quotas; provides for paid break time for rest; provides for appropriate training; limits the collection and use of employee work speed data; provides for record retention. | 1/15/2025 | | Employee_obligation: Request; Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Quotas; Employer_Obligations: Recordkeeping; Employment_relations: Current_employees; Employment_relations: New_employee Hours_worked: Bathroom_break Hours_worked: Meal_break Hours_worked: Rest_break Industry: Warehouses Wage_and_Hour: Quotas Wage_and_Hour: Work_speed |
| GA | House | 135 | Fair Housing | Relates to definitions relative to fair housing; relates to general provisions regarding education; relates to general provisions regarding labor and industrial relations; relates to fair employment practices; prohibits discrimination based on hairstyles associated with race, color, or national origin; provides for a civil cause of action. | 1/29/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Hairstyles; Prohibited_Practices: Race; |
| GA | House | 22 | Veterans Day Paid Leave Act | Relates to labor and industrial relations; relates to revenue and taxation; requires that employers provide veteran employees paid leave on Veterans Day; provides employers who are required to provide such paid leave with an income tax credit for amounts paid to such veteran employees on account of such paid leave. | 2/11/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Veterans_Day; |
| GA | House | 343 | Living Wage Act | Relates to labor and industrial relations and penal institutions, respectively, so as to enact the Georgia Living Wage Act; revises the eligibility exemptions from the minimum wage; provides that no employer shall utilize a certificate issued by the United States Department of Labor pursuant to a specified section to pay individuals with disabilities less than the federal minimum wage; requires the payment of minimum wage for inmate labor; revises authorized deductions from inmate wages. | 2/12/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; Wage_and_Hour: Exemptions; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| GA | House | 395 | Labor and Industrial Relations | Relates to minimum wage law, so as to provide for an increase in the minimum wage; provides a credit toward the minimum wage for employers of tipped workers; eliminates various eligibility exemptions from the minimum wage; provides for related matters; provides an effective date; repeals conflicting laws. | 2/13/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Exemptions; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| GA | Senate | 273 | Minimum Wage | Relates to minimum wage, so as to revise certain provisions regarding the minimum wage law; provides for an increase in the minimum wage; provides for annual minimum wage increases to match the rising cost of living; provides a credit toward the minimum wage for employers of tipped workers; eliminates various eligibility exemptions from the minimum wage; provides for related matters; provides an effective date; repeals conflicting laws. | 2/27/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| GA | House | 670 | Civil Rights Act | Provides comprehensive state civil rights laws protecting individuals from discrimination in housing, public accommodations, and employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, familial status, or national origin; provides for related matters; provides for a short title; provides for an effective date; repeals conflicting Laws. | 3/3/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Age; Prohibited_Practices: Sexual_orientation; |
| GA | Senate | 320 | Civil Rights Act | Provides comprehensive state civil rights laws protecting individuals from discrimination in housing, public accommodations, and employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, familial status, or national origin; repeals conflicting laws. | 3/4/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Gender_identity; Prohibited_Practices: Sexual_orientation; |
| GA | House | 250 | Insurance | Relating to insurance and labor and industrial relations, respectively, so as to provide for the registration and regulation of professional employer organizations; provides for certain regulatory powers, duties, and authority of the Commissioner of Insurance over professional employer organizations; clarifies tax duties, obligations, and credits; to provide for disciplinary actions; exempts such organizations from certain licensing; provides for a co-employment relationship. | 3/10/2025 | | Industry: PEO; |
| GA | Senate | 55 | Dignity and Pay Act | Relates to labor and industrial relations, so as to phase out the payment of subminimum wage to persons with disabilities; repeals provisions concerning exemptions to the state minimum wage law for persons with disabilities; provides that no employer shall utilize a certificate issued by the United States Department of Labor pursuant to a specified section to pay individuals with disabilities less than the federal minimum wage; provides exceptions; provides for related matters; provides a short title. | 5/1/2025 | 07/01/2025 | Employment_relations: Disabled_employee; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Subminimum_wage; |
| HI | House | 84 | Minimum Wage | Reduces the minimum wage increase beginning a specified date, to a certain amount per hour and repeals certain minimum wage and tip credit; increases after a specified date. | 1/21/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Tip_credit; |
| HI | House | 167 | State and County Employees Hazard Pay | Authorizes differentials in pay for state and county employees who are exposed temporarily to unusually hazard working conditions, under certain conditions. | 1/21/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| HI | House | 168 | State and County Employees Paid Family Leave Program | Establishes a paid family leave program for state and county employees; authorizes a qualifying employee to take up to 12 weeks of paid leave for the birth or placement of a child or to care for a family member who has a serious health condition; requires the employee to agree to subsequently work for the employer for at least 12 weeks upon return to service except under certain conditions. | 1/21/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| HI | House | 219 | State and County Employee Paid Family Leave | Provides state and county employees with five days of paid family leave each calendar year. | 1/21/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| HI | House | 479 | Minimum Wage Tip Credit | Increases, beginning January 1, 2026, the tip credit to be twenty percent of the minimum wage and requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to annually calculate an adjusted tip credit amount. | 1/21/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Tip_credit; Wage_and_Hour: Tips; |
| HI | House | 695 | Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program | (Working Families Legislative Caucus Bill Package) Requires by a specified date, the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish a Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program and begin collecting payroll contributions to finance payment of benefits; requires by a specified date, the department to start receiving claims and paying benefits under the program; specifies eligibility requirements and employee protections under the program. | 1/21/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Domestic_violence; Leave_laws: Exigency; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Military Leave_laws: Paid_leave Leave_laws: Parental Leave_laws: Safe Leave_laws: Sexual_assault Leave_laws: Stalking |
| HI | Senate | 343 | Public Employees Temporary Hazard Pay | Allows the Director of Human Resources Development and the director’s county counterparts, with the approval of the civil service commission in the case of the county, to grant temporary hazard pay to public employees. | 1/21/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| HI | Senate | 397 | Child Labor Law Exemptions | Removes the exemption of the state, its political subdivisions, and the United States from the child labor law. | 1/21/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| HI | Senate | 407 | Temporary Disability Insurance Coverage | Expands the state’s temporary disability insurance (TDI) coverage to, and exempts from TDI benefit eligibility requirements that are employment related, employees who are unable to perform their employment duties due to the employee’s childbirth or provision of kangaroo care to, or expression of breast milk for, the employee’s child who is required to stay in a neonatal intensive care unit; extends under certain conditions the temporary disability benefit payment period and family leave. | 1/21/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Pregnancy; Temporary_disability: Temporary_disability; |
| HI | Senate | 452 | Employment Practices Meal Breaks | Prohibits employers from requiring employees to work for more than five consecutive hours without a meal break unless otherwise provided in collective bargaining agreements; establishes penalties. | 1/21/2025 | | Hours_worked: Meal_break; |
| HI | Senate | 461 | Order of Wage Payment Violation | Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to issue an order of wage payment violation to employers in violation of the state’s wages and hour law; establishes penalties, enforcement, and appeal procedures related to orders of payment violations; amends the definition of wage under the state’s wage and hour law to clarify that it means compensation for labor or services rendered by an employee regardless of how it is calculated. | 1/21/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Complaints; Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; |
| HI | House | 822 | Reproductive Loss Leave | Requires certain employers in the state to offer reproductive loss leave for employees. | 1/23/2025 | | Leave_laws: Reproductive_loss; Leave_laws: Unpaid_leave; |
| HI | House | 887 | Human Services Providers Prevailing Wages | Requires prevailing wages for human services providers. | 1/23/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Prevailing_wage; |
| HI | House | 1135 | Order of Wage Payment Violation | (Governor Bill Package) Authorizes the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to issue an order of wage payment violation to the employer found to be in violation of wage and hour provisions; establishes penalties, enforcement, and appeal procedures; amends the definition of wage to include compensation for labor or services rendered by an employee, whether the amount is determined on a time, task, piece, commission, or other basis of calculation. | 1/23/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Penalty; Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; |
| HI | Senate | 638 | Employees Paid Breaks | Requires employers to provide employees with paid breaks. | 1/23/2025 | | Hours_worked: Paid; Hours_worked: Rest_break; |
| HI | Senate | 852 | Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program | Requires by a specified date, the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish a Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program and begin collecting payroll contributions to finance payment of benefits; requires by a specified date, the department to start receiving claims and paying benefits under the program; specifies eligibility requirements and employee protections under the program. | 1/23/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Parental; |
| HI | Senate | 859 | State and County Employees Paid Family Leave | Establishes a paid family leave program for state and county employees; authorizes a qualifying employee to take up to 12 weeks of paid leave for the birth or placement of a child or to care for a family member who has a serious health condition; requires the employee to agree to subsequently work for the employer for at least 12 weeks upon return to service except under certain conditions. | 1/23/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| HI | Senate | 1054 | Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program | (Working Families Legislative Caucus Bill Package) Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish a Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program and begin collecting payroll contributions to finance payment of benefits; requires by January 1, 2028, the department to start receiving claims and paying benefits under the program; specifies eligibility requirements and employee protections under the program. | 1/23/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Domestic_violence; Leave_laws: Exigency; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Military Leave_laws: Parental Leave_laws: Safe Leave_laws: Sexual_assault Leave_laws: Stalking |
| HI | House | 1227 | State and County Employees Paid Family Leave | Establishes a paid family leave program for state and county employees; authorizes a qualifying employee to take up to twelve weeks of paid leave for the birth or placement of a child or to care for a family member who has a serious health condition. | 1/27/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| HI | House | 1268 | Family Leave | Allows family leave to also apply to an employee’s domestic partner or the child of an employee’s domestic partner. | 1/27/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; |
| HI | Senate | 1161 | Employment Covenants or Agreements | Voids existing non compete clauses and prohibits future non compete clauses for employees of restaurants and retail stores; provides that, with certain exceptions, it shall be prohibited to include a non compete clause or a non solicit clause in any employment contract relating to an employee of a technology business, restaurant, or retail store; provides that the clause shall be void and of no force and effect. | 1/27/2025 | | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Non-compete; Industry: Restaurants; Industry: Retail; |
| HI | Senate | 1568 | Prevailing Wages for Human Services Providers | Requires prevailing wages for human services providers. | 1/27/2025 | | Industry: Govt_contractor; Wage_and_Hour: Prevailing_wage; |
| HI | House | 50 | Boards and Commissions Employment Decisions | Authorizes boards and commissions to make employment decisions related to its officers and employees without the approval of the head of the department to which the board or commission is administratively attached. | 1/28/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| HI | House | 325 | Medical Cannabis Discrimination | Prohibits an employer from discriminating against a person in hiring, termination, or any term or condition of employment based on the persons status as a Medical Cannabis Registry card holder or positive drug test for cannabis, under certain conditions; authorizes an employer to use a fit for duty test for medical cannabis qualifying patients in potentially dangerous occupations; exempts certain occupations from certain protections. | 1/30/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Marijuana_card; Prohibited_Practices: Medical_marijuana; |
| HI | House | 425 | State and County Employees Paid Family Leave | Establishes a paid family leave program for state and county employees; authorizes a qualifying employee to take up to a specified weeks of paid leave for the birth or placement of a child or to care for a family member who has a serious health condition; requires the employee to agree to subsequently work for the employer for at least a specified weeks upon return to service except under certain conditions; becomes effective a specified date. | 1/30/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| HI | Senate | 458 | State and County Employers Wages and Compensation | Amends the definition of employer in state law that governs payment of wages and other compensation to include the state and counties when a provision in that law has no comparable provision in state law that governs public officers and employees. | 2/5/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| HI | House | 478 | State and County Employers Payment of Wages | Amends the definition of employer in state law that governs payment of wages and other compensation to include the state and counties when a provision in that law has no comparable provision in state law that governs public officers and employees. | 2/11/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| HI | House | 555 | Employees Paid Breaks | Requires employers to authorize and permit employees a 10-minute paid rest period for every four hours worked. | 2/12/2025 | | Hours_worked: Paid; Hours_worked: Rest_break; |
| HI | Senate | 342 | State and County Employees Paid Family Leave | Requires five days of paid family leave annually for certain state and county employees; ensures the protection of wage, seniority, and other employment benefits of employees who take paid family leave. | 2/12/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| HI | Senate | 1034 | Food Service Industry Unpaid Rest Periods | Requires employers in the food service industry to allow their employees an unpaid rest period of 30 consecutive minutes for a certain number of consecutive hours of working time. | 2/12/2025 | | Hours_worked: Meal_break; Industry: Food_services; |
| HI | Senate | 1091 | Telework Eligibility | Requires the Comptroller, in coordination with the Department of Human Resources Development, to periodically assess telework-eligible allocations of employees of certain state executive branch departments and agencies; requires the first assessment and notification to be completed by specified date; establishes a position within the Department of Accounting and General Services; appropriates fund. | 2/13/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| HI | House | 222 | Wage and Hour Law Livestock Production Exclusion | Relates to the Wage and Hour Law; provides that the term employee includes any individual employed by an employer, but shall not include any individual employed in agriculture and primarily engaged in the range production of livestock. | 2/14/2025 | | Industry: Agriculture; Industry: Livestock; Wage_and_Hour: Exemptions; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| HI | House | 755 | Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program | Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish a family and medical leave insurance program and begin collecting payroll contributions to finance payment of benefits; requires the Department to start receiving claims and paying benefits under the program; specifies eligibility requirements and employee protections under the program. | 2/14/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Domestic_violence; Leave_laws: Exigency; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Military Leave_laws: Paid_leave Leave_laws: Parental Leave_laws: Safe Leave_laws: Sexual_assault Leave_laws: Stalking |
| HI | Senate | 7 | Abusive Conduct Towards Employees | Prohibits any employer or employee from subjecting an employee to abusive conduct; requires employers and certain employees to take all reasonable preventative and responsive measures to ensure a safe work environment free of abusive conduct; prohibits employers and certain employees from taking retaliatory actions against employees who engage in certain protected acts; establishes a penalty, private cause of action, and remedies; requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to adopt rules. | 2/14/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Training; Employer_Obligations: Workplace_abuse; Employer_Obligations: Workplace_bullying; Prohibited_Practices: Abuse; |
| HI | SCR | 99 | Child Labor Amendment | Ratifies a proposed amendment to the constitution of the United States giving the Congress of the United States power to limit, regulate, and prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen years of age. | 3/11/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| HI | SR | 81 | Child Labor Amendment | Ratifies a proposed amendment to the constitution of the United States giving the Congress of the United States power to limit, regulate, and prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen years of age. | 3/11/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| HI | HCR | 179 | Paid Family and Medical Leave Program | Requests the senate standing committee on labor and technology and house of representatives standing committee on labor to convene a legislative working group to develop recommendations for establishing and implementing a paid family and medical leave program for the state. | 3/28/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| HI | HR | 175 | Paid Family and Medical Leave Program | Requests the Senate Standing Committee on Labor and Technology and House of Representatives Standing Committee on Labor to convene a legislative working group to develop recommendations for establishing and implementing a paid family and medical leave program for the state. | 3/28/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| HI | SR | 117 | Paid Family and Medical Leave Program | Requests the Department of Labor and Industrial relations to convene a working group to develop recommendations for establishing and implementing a paid family and medical leave program for the state. | 4/3/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| HI | SCR | 145 | Paid Family and Medical Leave Program | Requests the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to convene a working group to develop recommendations for establishing and implementing a paid family and medical leave program for the state. | 4/21/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| HI | Senate | 717 | Collective Bargaining Grievance Suspension Discharge | Repeals the prohibition placed on certain employees exempt from Civil Service Law from grieving a suspension or discharge; allows any employee who is a member of an appropriate bargaining unit to grieve a suspension or discharge. | 4/25/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| HI | House | 991 | Criminal History Record Checks | Relates to fingerprint based background checks on current and prospective employees and contractors who receive access to federal tax information; relates to employees or agents of contractors; repeals the term agents of contractors and clarifies that a contractor, contractors employee, or subcontractor who has access to federal tax information held by the Department of the Attorney General may be subject to fingerprint based background checks. | 5/27/2025 | 05/27/2025 | Industry: Govt_contractor; |
| HI | Senate | 1454 | Order of Wage Payment Violation | Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to issue an order of wage payment violation to employers found to be in violation of the State’s Wage and Hour Law; establishes penalties, enforcement, and appeal procedures; amends the definition of wage to clarify that it means compensation for labor or services rendered by an employee, regardless of how it is calculated. | 5/29/2025 | 05/29/2025 | Claims_and_Penalties: Penalty; Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; |
| IA | Senate | 109 | Family Leave and Medical Leave Insurance Program | Relates to a family leave and medical leave insurance program that provides for paid, job-protected leave for certain family leave and medical leave reasons for eligible employees of specified employers. | 1/22/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Exigency; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Parental |
| IA | SSB | 1014 | Private Sector Employee Drug Testing | Relates to private sector employee drug testing. | 1/22/2025 | | Workplace_Behavior: Drug_testing; |
| IA | SSB | 1040 | Government Employee Paid Leave | Relates to government employee paid leave. | 1/28/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| IA | House | 184 | Civil Liability for Employers of Minors | Relates to civil liability for employers of minors. | 1/30/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| IA | HSB | 114 | Unemployment Insurance Taxes on Employers | Relates to unemployment insurance taxes on employers. | 1/30/2025 | | Unemployment: Unemployment; |
| IA | Senate | 147 | Wage Payment Collection Issues | Relates to wage payment collection issues arising between employers and employees; provides penalties and remedies; includes effective date provisions. | 1/30/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; Employer_Obligations: Notice; Wage_Payment: Deductions; Wage_and_Hour: Piece_rate; |
| IA | Senate | 155 | Employers and Employment Agencies | Prohibits employers and employment agencies from seeking the criminal record or criminal history from applicants for employment under certain circumstances, establishing a criminal history employment application task force, providing penalties, and including effective date provisions. | 1/30/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Applications; Employment_relations: Applicant; Prohibited_Practices: Criminal_history; |
| IA | Senate | 187 | Wage Discrimination | Relates to wage discrimination under the State Civil Rights Act of 1965; makes penalties applicable. | 2/4/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; Prohibited_Practices: Equal_pay; |
| IA | HSB | 78 | Government Employee Paid Leave | Relates to government employee paid leave. | 2/5/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| IA | House | 232 | Accrued Sick Leave of Public Safety Employees | Relates to credit for accrued sick leave of public safety employees. | 2/6/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| IA | HSB | 26 | Private Sector Employee Drug Testing | Relates to private sector employee drug testing. | 2/13/2025 | | Workplace_Behavior: Drug_testing; |
| IA | House | 170 | Employment Leave for Employees of Railroad Corporations | Provides for employment leave for employees of railroad corporations to attend a school-sponsored activity and makes penalties applicable. | 2/19/2025 | | Industry: Railroad; |
| IA | House | 478 | Payment of Local Prevailing Wage Rates | Requires the payment of local prevailing wage rates to persons working on public improvements for public bodies; provides remedies and penalties; includes effective date provisions. | 2/19/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Prevailing_wage; |
| IA | SSB | 1111 | Disqualification for Unemployment Benefits | Provides for disqualification for unemployment benefits due to separation from short-term employment with a fixed end date and includes applicability provisions. | 2/20/2025 | | Unemployment: Unemployment; |
| IA | Senate | 380 | Prohibitions on Noncompete Covenants Involving Nurses | Relates to prohibitions on noncompete covenants involving nurses and includes applicability provisions. | 2/24/2025 | | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Non-compete; Employment_relations: Nurse; |
| IA | Senate | 381 | Youth Employment | Relates to youth employment and provides penalties. | 2/24/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| IA | House | 611 | Increased Wage Rates for Required Work on Holidays | Provides for increased wage rates for required work on certain holidays and makes penalties and remedies applicable. | 2/26/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Holiday_pay; |
| IA | House | 675 | Provision of Meal and Rest Periods to Employees | Requires employers to provide employees with meal periods and rest periods and provides penalties. | 2/28/2025 | | Hours_worked: Meal_break; Hours_worked: Rest_break; |
| IA | House | 682 | Businesses that Violate Child Labor Laws | Relates to the recapture of tax expenditures and disbursed by departments of the state to businesses that violate child labor laws. | 2/28/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| IA | House | 686 | Paid Medical Leave | Provides for paid medical leave; provides penalties and remedies. | 2/28/2025 | | Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| IA | House | 742 | Heat Response in Work Areas | Establishes requirements relating to heat response in work areas and provides penalties. | 3/5/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Policy_requirement; Employer_Obligations: Training; Workplace_Behavior: Heat; Workplace_Behavior: Shade; Workplace_Behavior: Water; |
| IA | House | 823 | Unpaid Leave | Relates to unpaid leave for appointments with a county commission of veteran affairs. | 3/6/2025 | | Leave_laws: Veteran; |
| IA | Senate | 527 | Nursing Facility Staffing Requirements | Relates to nursing facility staffing requirements. | 3/10/2025 | | Employment_relations: Staffing; Industry: Nursing_facilities; |
| IA | House | 722 | Workforce Training Unemployment Insurance | Relates to workforce training, unemployment insurance, and other functions and programs of the department of workforce development, the workforce development board, and local workforce development boards. | 3/18/2025 | | Unemployment: Unemployment; |
| IA | Senate | 110 | Private Sector Employee Drug Testing | Concerns private sector employee drug testing. | 5/14/2025 | | Workplace_Behavior: Drug_testing; |
| IA | House | 767 | Private Sector Employee Drug Testing | Relates to private sector employee drug testing; provides that if a confirmed positive test result for drugs or alcohol for an employee is reported, the employer shall notify the employee in writing by certified mail; provides that in lieu of certified mail, return receipt requested, an employer may offer an employee the option to receive notifications and make requests by in person exchange of written materials or by electronic notification; provides for employer violations and civil actions and remedies. | 7/28/2025 | 07/01/2025 | Workplace_Behavior: Drug_testing; |
| ID | Senate | 1004 | Civil Rights | Amends existing law to provide that freedom from discrimination because of sexual orientation or gender identity is a civil right. | 1/17/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Gender_identity; Prohibited_Practices: Sexual_orientation; |
| ID | House | 252 | Unauthorized Workers | Adds to existing law to establish certain requirements for employers to verify the lawful status of workers. | 2/17/2025 | | Employment_relations: E-verify; Employment_relations: Legal_work_status; |
| ID | House | 19 | Criminal History Records | Authorizes the submission of fingerprints of certain persons to the Bureau of Criminal Identification; provides that, among others, any persons associated with private, noncriminal justice entities that qualify under the National Child Protection Act of 1993 and Volunteers for Children Act that serve vulnerable populations such as children, the elderly, and individuals with disabilities are authorized to submit fingerprints to the bureau for examination and further submission, if necessary, to the FBI. | 3/12/2025 | 07/01/2025 | Employer_Obligations: Background_checks; Employer_Obligations: Criminal_history; |
| ID | House | 486 | Covenants Not to Compete | Repeals and adds to existing law to provide that covenants not to compete shall be void an unenforceable except in certain situations. | 4/3/2025 | | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Non-compete; |
| IL | Senate | 37 | Day and Temporary Labor Services Act | Amends the Day and Temporary Labor Services Act; removes a provision that requires a day and temporary labor agency to provide a day or temporary laborer who is assigned to work and performs work at the same third party client for more than 720 hours within a 12-month period substantially similar benefits to the job classification of employees performing the same or substantially similar work on jobs and performed under similar working conditions. | 1/13/2025 | | Employment_relations: Day_employee; Employment_relations: Temporary_employees; Industry: Hiring_agency; |
| IL | Senate | 222 | Child Care Act | Amends the Child Care Act; defines conditional employee as an employee who has completed a background check and is waiting for confirmation from the Department of Children and Family Services; provides that a conditional employee may work in a child care facility, including, but not limited to, a child welfare agency, if the conditional employee is supervised by a licensed employee, does not have contact with children who are under the care and control of the child care facility. | 1/22/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Background_checks; Employment_relations: Prospective_employee; Industry: Child_care; |
| IL | House | 1353 | Volunteer Emergency Worker Job Protection Act | Amends the Volunteer Emergency Worker Job Protection Act; provides that employment protections for volunteer emergency workers apply to volunteer emergency workers participating in required training, including a prohibition on termination and penalizing; provides that the employer may not require the employee to take vacation time or other compensatory time in order to respond to an emergency or participate in training; provides that the Act does not apply to any employer that is a municipality. | 1/28/2025 | | Leave_laws: Emergency; Leave_laws: Volunteer; Leave_laws: Volunteer_responder; |
| IL | House | 1421 | Veterans Day Paid Leave Act | Creates the Veterans Day Paid Leave Act; requires each employer, subject to certain exceptions, to provide each employee who is a veteran with a paid day off on Veterans Day if the employee would otherwise be required to work on that day; provides that the employee must provide notice to the employer that he or she intends to take time off on Veterans Day and must provide the employer with documentation verifying that he or she is a veteran. | 1/28/2025 | | Employment_relations: Veteran; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Veterans_Day; |
| IL | House | 1471 | Child Labor Law | Amends the Child Labor Law; provides that a minor may work at an otherwise prohibited workplace if none of the minor’s job duties: require any education, formal training, certification, or license; involves the use of any equipment or machinery that poses a substantial risk of causing any serious bodily injury or death; involves the use of or proximity to hazardous materials; or require the minor to work hours past curfew; provides that every employer of a minor shall record the name of the parent. | 1/28/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| IL | House | 1528 | Child Labor Law of 2024 | Amends the Child Labor Law of 2024; makes a technical change in a section concerning the short title. | 1/28/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| IL | House | 1594 | Human Rights Act | Amends the Human Rights Act; provides that it is a civil rights violation for an employer, employment agency, or labor organization to take certain employment-related actions on the basis of an individual’s weight and size; provides that it is a civil rights violation for the owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, superintendent, agent, or employee of a place of public accommodation, because of the weight and size of any person, directly or indirectly, to refuse, withhold from, or deny to any individual. | 1/28/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Size; Prohibited_Practices: Weight; |
| IL | House | 1642 | Freedom to Work Act | Amends the Freedom to Work Act; provides that no employer shall enter into a covenant not to compete or a covenant not to solicit with any employee unless the employee’s actual or expected annualized rate of earnings exceeds certain amount per year. | 1/28/2025 | | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Covenant_not_solicit; Agreements: Non-compete; Agreements: Non-solicitation; Employment_relations: Low_wage_employee; |
| IL | House | 1741 | Paid Leave for All Workers Act | Amends the Paid Leave for All Workers Act; provides that the definition of employee does not include a part-time employee as defined in the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. | 1/28/2025 | | Employment_relations: Mass_layoff; Employment_relations: Relocation; |
| IL | House | 1745 | Child Labor Law | Amends the Child Labor Law of 2024; provides that no employer shall employ, allow, or permit a minor to work more than 3 hours per day; makes changes in various provisions to limit the number of hours worked by a minor outside of school hours to 18 hours in a week. | 1/28/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| IL | Senate | 1440 | Occupational Safety and Health Act | Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act; provides that a public employer that willfully violates the Act, the Safety Inspection and Education Act, or the Health and Safety Act, or any standard, rule, regulation, or order under any of those Acts, or who demonstrates plain indifference to any provision of any of those Acts or any such standard, rule, regulation, or order, may be assessed a civil penalty of not more than certain amount per violation. | 1/31/2025 | | Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; |
| IL | House | 2377 | Paid Leave for All Workers Act | Amends the Paid Leave for All Workers Act; provides that for the purpose of calculating the accrual of paid leave, only hours actually worked by an employee shall be considered; provides that an employee shall not accrue paid leave for any hours that an employee was scheduled to work but did not actually work; provides that, if paid leave is taken due to an emergency, an employer may require that an employee provide documentation of the emergency upon returning to work; makes other changes. | 2/4/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Paid_time_off; |
| IL | Senate | 1623 | Employee Classification Act | Amends the Employee Classification Act; provides that a developer, general contractor, and subcontractor are jointly and severally liable for any subcontractor’s failure to properly classify persons performing services as employees unless specified conditions are satisfied; provides that it is a violation for a developer or a general contractor to utilize a subcontractor at any tier who commits a violation of the Act unless specified conditions are satisfied; makes conforming and other changes. | 2/4/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Misclassification; Employment_relations: Independent_contract; Industry: General_contractor; Industry: Subcontractor; |
| IL | Senate | 1635 | Child Labor and Park Employment | Amends the Child Labor Law of 2024; specifies provisions requiring the supervision of minors on site, provides that the requirement does not apply with respect to: any minor working for a park district, a municipal parks and recreation department, or a township parks and recreation department who is supervised by an adult 18 years of age or older who is an employee of the park district, the municipal parks and recreation department, or the township parks and recreation department if no alcohol or tobacco. | 2/4/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| IL | Senate | 1670 | Family Bereavement Leave Act | Amends the Family Bereavement Leave Act; provides that all employees shall be entitled to use a maximum of one week of unpaid bereavement leave to grieve the death of a covered companion animal; provides that, in the event of the death of more than one covered companion animal in a 12-month period, an employee is entitled to up to a total of 2 Weeks of bereavement leave during the 12-month period; defines companion animal; makes conforming changes. | 2/5/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bereavement; Leave_laws: Pet; Leave_laws: Unpaid_leave; |
| IL | Senate | 2069 | Paid Leave for All Workers Act | Amends the Paid Leave for All Workers Act; provides that a public safety agency may, in lieu of paid leave, pay a first responder that is employed by the public safety agency the equivalent of the first responder’s hourly rate of pay multiplied by the number of hours of paid leave that the first responder is entitled to under the Act; provides that a first responder is eligible for the payment if the first responder has been continuously employed by the public safety agency for at least 60 days. | 2/6/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| IL | Senate | 2419 | Human Rights Act | Amends the Human Rights Act; adds to the definition of harassment in the Employment Article to include reproductive health decisions that is covered under the Act; provides that an employer is responsible for harassment and sexual harassment of the employer’s employees by the employer’s nonmanagerial and nonsupervisory employees, nonemployees, and third parties only if the employer becomes aware of the conduct and fails to take reasonable corrective measures. | 2/7/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Reproductive_rights; |
| IL | Senate | 2460 | Wage Payment and Collection Act | Amends the Wage Payment and Collection Act; provides that an employer who furnishes a pay stub to an employee over the age of 65 shall provide the employee with a paper pay stub at the request of the employee; provides that an employer who requires an employee over the age of 65 to record the hours the employee worked on an electronic device shall provide the employee a method to record the hours on a non-electronic device; sets forth notice requirements. | 2/7/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Electronic; Wage_Payment: Pay_stub; Wage_Payment: Wage_statement; |
| IL | Senate | 2501 | Workplace Extreme Temperature Safety Act | Creates the Workplace Extreme Temperature Safety Act; provides that the Director of Labor shall adopt rules to establish excessive heat and excessive cold standards; sets forth temporary excessive heat and excessive cold standards; provides that, on or before January 1, 2026, the Director shall establish by rule an occupational temperature-related illness and injury prevention plan; sets forth provisions concerning retaliation; relates to violations; relates to penalties and enforcement of the Act. | 2/7/2025 | | Workplace_Behavior: Cold; Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: Heat; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; Workplace_Behavior: Temperature; |
| IL | House | 3459 | Minimum Wage | Amends the Minimum Wage Law; provides that no employer shall employ any of his employees for a workweek of more than 32 hours unless such employee receives compensation for his employment in excess of the hours above specified at a rate not less than 1 1/2 times the regular rate at which he is employed; makes a conforming change. | 2/18/2025 | | Hours_worked: 32_hours; Wage_and_Hour: Overtime; |
| IL | House | 1090 | Prevailing Wage Act | Amends the Prevailing Wage Act; makes formatting changes to the definition of public works. | 3/21/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Prevailing_wage; |
| IL | House | 1870 | State Officials and Employees Ethics Act | Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act; in provisions regarding personnel policies and work time requirements, specifies that State employees of public institutions of higher education classified as faculty and those not eligible for overtime pay may satisfy the time Sheets requirement by complying with the terms of their contract with the public institution of higher education. | 3/21/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| IL | House | 2581 | Workplace Safety | Provides that the Act may be referred to as the Christopher James Act; amends the Unified Code of Corrections; provides that the Department of Corrections shall establish a Safety Committee comprised of bargaining unit and non-bargaining unit Department employees; provides that at least 40% of committee members shall be bargaining unit employees. | 3/21/2025 | | Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; |
| IL | House | 2794 | Employee Classification Act | Amends the Employee Classification Act; provides that a developer, general contractor, and subcontractor are jointly and severally liable for any subcontractor’s failure to properly classify persons performing services as employees unless specified conditions are satisfied; provides that it is a violation for a developer or a general contractor to utilize a subcontractor at any tier who commits a violation of the Act unless specified conditions are satisfied; makes conforming and other changes; defines. | 3/21/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Misclassification; Employment_relations: Independent_contract; Industry: General_contractor; Industry: Subcontractor; |
| IL | House | 2908 | Child Care Act | Amends the Child Care Act; provides that day care homes, group day care homes, and day care centers may hire on a probationary basis any employee or volunteer who authorizes a criminal background investigation and who meets the initial requirements set out by the Department of Children and Family Services or the Department of Early Childhood and any applicable federal Laws or regulations; provides that, pending completion of all of the background check requirements. | 3/21/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Background_checks; Employer_Obligations: Criminal_history; Industry: Child_care; |
| IL | House | 2909 | Human Rights Act | Amends the Human Rights Act; changes the Public Accommodations and Financial Credit Articles to prohibit discrimination on the basis of citizenship, primary language, or immigration status that includes discrimination against a person because of the person’s actual or perceived characteristic or characteristics within the listed categories or that the person is associated with a person who has, or is perceived to have, any particular characteristic or characteristics within the listed categories. | 3/21/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Citizenship; Prohibited_Practices: Immigration_status; Prohibited_Practices: Primary_language; |
| IL | House | 2925 | Whistleblower Act | Amends the Whistleblower Act; prohibits retaliation by an employer or third party related to a past, current, or future activity that the employee has a good-faith belief violates a municipal, county, State, or federal law, rule, or regulation or poses a substantial and specific danger to employees, public health, or safety; changes the damages an employee may receive for violations of the Act to include compensatory damages. | 3/21/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Whistleblower; |
| IL | House | 2946 | Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program Act | Creates the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program Act; requires the Department of Employment Security to establish and administer a Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program that provides family and medical leave insurance benefits to eligible employees; sets forth eligibility requirements for benefits under the Act; contains provisions concerning disqualification from benefits; relates to premium payments and amount and duration of benefits; relates to the recovery of erroneous payments; hearings. | 3/21/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Domestic_violence; Leave_laws: Exigency; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave Leave_laws: Parental Leave_laws: Pregnancy Leave_laws: Safe Leave_laws: Sexual_assault Leave_laws: Stalking |
| IL | House | 3192 | Nursing Mothers in the Workplace Act | Amends the Nursing Mothers in the Workplace Act; changes the name of the act to the Nursing in the Workplace Act; provides that an employee who has been denied any rights under the act may bring an action to enjoin future denials of those rights; provides that, if the employee prevails in that action, the employee shall be awarded reasonable attorney’s fees and costs; makes other changes. | 3/21/2025 | | Employment_relations: Nursing_mothers; |
| IL | House | 3295 | Day and Temporary Labor Services Act | Amends the Day and Temporary Labor Services Act; provides that a day and temporary labor service agency may charge a placement fee to a third party client for employing a day or temporary laborer for whom a contract for work was effected by the day and temporary labor service agency as agreed upon in advance by the day and temporary labor service agency and the third party client; makes changes to an alternative calculation of a placement fee. | 3/21/2025 | | Employment_relations: Day_employee; Employment_relations: Temporary_employees; |
| IL | House | 3364 | Right to Privacy In the Workplace Act | Amends the Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act; provides that an employer enrolled in an Employment Eligibility Verification System, including the E-Verify program, shall not impose work authorization verification or re-verification requirements greater than those required by the Employment Eligibility Verification System. | 3/21/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: E-verify; Employment_relations: Immigration_status; Employment_relations: Legal_work_status; |
| IL | House | 3483 | Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program | Creates the Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program Act; creates the Division of Paid Family and Medical Leave within the Department of Labor; requires the Division to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave insurance program that provides benefits to employees; provides that the program shall be administered by the Deputy Director of the Division; sets forth eligibility requirements for benefits under the act; provides that a self employed individual may elect to be covered. | 3/21/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Domestic_violence; Leave_laws: Exigency; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave Leave_laws: Parental Leave_laws: Pregnancy Leave_laws: Pregnancy_loss Leave_laws: Safe Leave_laws: Sexual_assault Leave_laws: Stalking |
| IL | House | 3635 | Wage Payment and Collection Act | Amends the Wage Payment and Collection Act; provides that the definition of wages includes any severance, back pay, front pay, or any concomitant relief owed to an employee pursuant to a separation or severance agreement between the 2 parties, policy of the employer, judicial ruling, or administrative ruling; provides that the definition applies to former, current, or future employees; makes a conforming change to the definition of employee. | 3/21/2025 | | Agreements: Severance; Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; Employment_relations: Separation; |
| IL | House | 3753 | Prevailing Wage Act | Amends the Prevailing Wage Act; provides that the transportation of ready-mixed concrete and aggregate materials shall be deemed to be employment upon public works; includes additional trucking related activities within the scope of the Act; includes in the calculation of the prevailing wage rate, rental costs for trucks and equipment provided by owner-operators; defines terms. | 3/21/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Prevailing_wage; |
| IL | House | 3820 | Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act | Amends the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act; provides that an employer shall provide severance pay to a terminated employee equal to one week of pay for each full year of employment; provides that, if the employer provides any employee with less than the number of days of notification required under the Act, the employer shall provide that employee with an additional 4 Weeks of pay; sets forth provisions concerning severance pay provided by the employer under a collective bargaining. | 3/21/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Closed_business; Employment_relations: Mass_layoff; Employment_relations: Relocation; Wage_Payment: Severance; |
| IL | Senate | 1702 | Workers Compensation Act | Amends the Workers’ Compensation Act; provides that post-traumatic stress disorder is to be rebuttably presumed to arise out of and to be causally connected to the hazards of employment of a person employed as a firefighter, emergency medical technician, emergency medical technician-intermediate, advanced emergency medical technician, or paramedic. | 3/21/2025 | | Workers_Comp: Workers_comp; |
| IL | House | 1058 | Prevailing Wage Act | Amends the Prevailing Wage Act; provides that all moneys owed to the Department of Labor under the Act shall be remitted to the Employee Classification Fund; amends the Employee Classification Act; provides that moneys in the Employee Classification Fund shall be used, subject to appropriation by the General Assembly, by the Department for administration, investigation, outreach, and educational activities related to the Act and the Prevailing Wage Act. | 4/11/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Prevailing_wage; |
| IL | House | 1247 | Prevailing Wage Act | Amends the Prevailing Wage Act; provides that the definition of public works includes sewer inspection projects that utilize a closed circuit television to identify issues in a sewer system, such as cracks in pipes, root intrusion, blockages, or other structural damage; adds an immediate effective date. | 4/11/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Prevailing_wage; |
| IL | House | 1871 | State Employee Article and Alternative Annuity | Amends the State Employee Article of the Pension Code; provides that a member who is eligible to receive an alternative retirement annuity may elect to receive an estimated payment that shall commence no later than 30 days after the later of either the member’s last day of employment or 30 days after the member files for the retirement benefit with the System; provides that the estimated payment shall be the best estimate by the System of the total monthly amount due to the member. | 4/11/2025 | | |
| IL | House | 2522 | Nursing Mothers in the Workplace Act | Amends the Nursing Mothers in the Workplace Act; provides that an employer shall provide 30 minutes of paid break time to an employee who needs to express breast milk for her nursing infant child each time the employee has the need to express milk for one year after the child’s birth; provides that the employee may use other paid break time or meal time for any time needed in excess of 30 minutes; provides that an employer shall provide paid break time as needed by the employee unless to do so. | 4/11/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Lactation; Employment_relations: Nursing_mothers; Hours_worked: Rest_break; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| IL | House | 2561 | Freedom to Work Act | Amends the Freedom to Work Act; provides that any covenant not to compete or covenant not to solicit entered into after the effective date of the Amendatory Act shall not be enforceable with respect to the provision of reproductive health care or maternity care by a health care professional in the state if the enforcement of the covenant not to compete or covenant not to solicit is likely to reduce the availability of reproductive health care or maternity care. | 4/11/2025 | | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Non-compete; Agreements: Non-solicitation; Employment_relations: Health_care_practiti; |
| IL | House | 2632 | Income Tax Act and the Prevailing Wage Act | Amends the Income Tax Act and the Prevailing Wage Act; provides that certain transferable tax credits are considered public works within the meaning of the Prevailing Wage Act; removes provisions providing that projects funded in whole or in part by the proceeds of tax credits transferred pursuant to the Film Production Services Tax Credit Act of 2008 or the Live Theater Production Tax Credit Act are considered public works within the meaning of the Prevailing Wage Act. | 4/11/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Prevailing_wage; |
| IL | House | 2982 | Minimum Wage Law | Amends the Minimum Wage Law; provides that, on and after a specified date, an employer shall not be entitled to an allowance for gratuities; pays each employee no less than the applicable minimum wage rate; includes any minimum wage rate; establishes by a municipality that is higher than the minimum wage rate; provides in the Act; provides for additional notice requirements that employers must provide to employees who receive gratuities. | 4/11/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Gratuities; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Tip_credit; Wage_and_Hour: Tips; |
| IL | House | 3213 | Freedom To Work Act | Amends the Freedom to Work Act; provides that, on and after January 1, 2026, no employer shall enter into a covenant not to compete or a covenant not to solicit with any employee; provides that a covenant not to compete or a covenant not to solicit entered into on or after January 1, 2026 is illegal and void regardless of where and when the covenant not to compete or a covenant not to solicit was entered into; provides that an employer or former employer shall not attempt to enforce a contract. | 4/11/2025 | | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Covenant_not_solicit; Agreements: Non-compete; Agreements: Non-solicitation; |
| IL | House | 3762 | Workplace Extreme Temperature Safety Act | Creates the Workplace Extreme Temperature Safety Act; provides that the Director of Labor shall adopt rules to establish excessive heat and excessive cold standards; sets forth temporary excessive heat and excessive cold standards; provides that, on or before January 1, 2026, the Director shall establish by rule an occupational temperature-related illness and injury prevention plan; sets forth provisions concerning retaliation; provides for violations, penalties and enforcement of the Act. | 4/11/2025 | | Workplace_Behavior: Cold; Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: Heat; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; Workplace_Behavior: Temperature; |
| IL | House | 3774 | Wage Payment and Collection Act | Amends the Wage Payment and Collection Act; makes changes to administrative fees paid to the Department of Labor; makes changes in provisions concerning the collection of unpaid wages, penalties, damages, fines, and fees. | 4/11/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Administrative_fee; Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; |
| IL | Senate | 52 | Privacy Rights Act | Creates the Privacy Rights Act; sets forth duties and obligations of businesses that collected consumers’ personal information and sensitive personal information to keep such information private; sets forth consumer rights in relation to the collected personal information and sensitive personal information, including the right to: delete personal information; corrects inaccurate personal information; knows what personal information is sold or shared and to whom. | 4/11/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Privacy; |
| IL | Senate | 467 | Family Military Leave Act | Amends the Family Military Leave Act; makes a technical change in a section concerning the short title. | 4/11/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Military; |
| IL | Senate | 468 | Family Bereavement Leave Act | Amends the Family Bereavement Leave Act; makes a technical change in a section concerning the short title. | 4/11/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bereavement; |
| IL | Senate | 2446 | Child Care Act | Amends the Child Care Act; in provisions concerning criminal background investigations, makes changes regarding the Department who regulates background checks, the background check that a potential employee is required to complete, and the supervision required for an employee pending completion of a background check; provides that the Department of Early Childhood shall establish a secure background check portal that is accessible to applicants, child care staff, human resources representatives. | 4/11/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Background_checks; Employer_Obligations: Criminal_history; Industry: Child_care; |
| IL | House | 3266 | Prevailing Wage Act | Amends the Prevailing Wage Act; provides that, for purposes of the Act, the term public works also includes all private projects that are located in a tax increment financing district and paid for wholly or in part out of public funds, unless the total cost of the project is less than a specified dollar or the project is performed in a designated historic district requiring specialty contractors because of that designation. | 4/14/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Prevailing_wage; |
| IL | House | 4051 | Child Labor and Trapshooting | Amends the Child Labor Law of 2024; provides that nothing in the Act applies to the work of a minor 14 years of age or older working as a scorer at the World Shooting and Recreational Complex on the dates of the U.S. Open and the Grand American World Trapshooting Championships if the minor is located, during those competitions, at least 15 feet behind the firing line of the trap shooters participating in the competitions; makes a conforming change. | 5/9/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| IL | Senate | 164 | Prevailing Wage Act | Amends the Prevailing Wage Act; provides that the definition of public works; includes all federal construction projects; administers or controls by a public body if the prevailing rate of wages; equals to or greater than the prevailing wage determination by the United States Secretary of Labor for the same locality for the same type of construction used; classifies the federal construction project; makes a conforming change. | 5/9/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Prevailing_wage; |
| IL | House | 1056 | State Power Agency Act | Amends the State Power Agency Act; removes provisions concerning the Prevailing Wage Act; provides that, in provisions concerning the Adjustable Block Program, if the State Power Agency determines that there is additional capacity needed to meet previous delivery year requirements, certain criteria shall apply; provides that the total nameplate capacity of co located projects shall be the sum of the capacities of the individual projects; provides that affiliates may not have shared sales. | 6/2/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Prevailing_wage; |
| IL | House | 2490 | Firefighter Paid Family Leave Act | Provides that a firefighter shall receive a specified number of weeks of paid family leave that may be used for the birth of a child in order to care for the child, a newly adopted child under a specified age, a newly placed foster child under a specified age, or a newly adopted or placed foster child older than a specified age if the child is incapable of self care because of a mental or physical disability; removes a provision concerning rulemaking by the Department of Labor. | 6/2/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| IL | Senate | 2413 | Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program Act | Creates the Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program Act; creates the Division of Paid Family and Medical Leave within the Department of Labor; requires the Division to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave insurance program that provides benefits to employees; provides that the program shall be administered by the Deputy Director of the Division; sets forth eligibility requirements for benefits under the Act. | 6/2/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Domestic_violence; Leave_laws: Exigency; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave Leave_laws: Parental Leave_laws: Pregnancy Leave_laws: Pregnancy_loss Leave_laws: Safe Leave_laws: Sexual_assault Leave_laws: Stalking |
| IL | House | 2327 | Child Labor Law of 2024 | Amends the Child Labor Law of 2024; provides an exemption for any minor of age 14 years or older working as a scorer at the World Shooting and Recreational Complex on the dates of the U.S. Open and the Grand American World Trapshooting Championships if the minor is located, during those competitions, at least a specified number of feet behind the firing line of the trap shooters participating in the competitions. | 6/30/2025 | 01/01/2026 | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| IL | House | 2488 | Equal Pay Act | Amends the Equal Pay Act of 2003; removes references to the federal Annual Employer Information Report; amends the Prevailing Wage Act; changes specified references to the Office of Apprenticeship within the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration. | 6/30/2025 | 06/30/2025 | Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; |
| IL | Senate | 212 | Nursing Mothers in the Workplace Act | Amends the Nursing Mothers in the Workplace Act; provides that an employer shall compensate the employee during the break time at the employee’s regular rate of compensation; provides that an employer shall not require the employee to use paid leave during the break time or reduce the employee’s compensation during the break time in any other manner. | 8/1/2025 | 01/01/2026 | Employer_Obligations: Express_milk; Employer_Obligations: Lactation; Employment_relations: Nursing_mothers; Hours_worked: Paid; Hours_worked: Rest_break; |
| IL | Senate | 220 | Family Military Leave Act | Amends the Family Military Leave Act; changes the name of the Act to the Military Leave Act; provides that an employee may use up to 8 hours per calendar month to participate in a funeral honors detail, up to a total of 40 hours per calendar year, or more if authorized by the employer or if provided for in a collective bargaining agreement; provides for requirements to take leave for funeral honors details; provides that an employee that takes leave may do so under certain circumstances. | 8/1/2025 | 08/01/2025 | Leave_laws: Military; |
| IL | Senate | 2164 | State Wage Payment and Collection Act | Provides that any employee not timely paid wages, final compensation, or wage supplements by his or her employer shall be entitled to recover through a claim filed with the Department of Labor or in a civil action; provides that after the expiration of the period in which judicial review under the Administrative Review Law may be sought for a final administrative decision, unless stayed by a court, the findings, decision, and order of the department may be enforced in the same manner as a court judgment. | 8/1/2025 | 08/01/2025 | Claims_and_Penalties: Damages; Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; |
| IL | House | 1189 | Prevailing Wage Act | Amends the Prevailing Wage Act; provides that no public works project shall be instituted unless the provisions of this Act have been complied with; provides that the provisions of this Act shall not be applicable to federal construction projects that require a prevailing wage determination by the United States Secretary of Labor, with certain exceptions. | 8/14/2025 | 07/01/2025 (Corrected) | Wage_and_Hour: Prevailing_wage; |
| IL | Senate | 1976 | Workers Rights and Worker Safety Act | Creates the Workers Rights and Worker Safety Act; provides that, except as authorized by State law enacted after the specified date, a State agency may not amend or revise the State agencys rules in a manner that is less stringent in its protection of workers rights or worker safety than requirements established under federal wage and hour law or federal coal mine safety law as the federal law existed on the specified date; creates the State Safe and Healthy Workplace Act. | 8/14/2025 | 08/14/2025 | Federal_Laws: OSHA; Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; |
| IL | House | 1278 | Victims’ Economic Security and Safety Act | Provides that an employer shall not retaliate against an employee or deprive an employee of employer-issued equipment because the employee used employer-issued equipment to record domestic violence, sexual violence, gender violence, or any other crime of violence committed against the employee or a family or household member of the employee; provides that an employer shall grant an employee access to any photographs, voice or video recordings, sound recordings, or any other digital documents. | 8/15/2025 | 01/01/2026 | Employer_Obligations: Accommodation; Prohibited_Practices: Victim_status; |
| IL | House | 1362 | Service Member Employment and Reemployment Rights Act | Amends the Service Member Employment and Reemployment Rights Act; provides that a service member whose employment with an employer is interrupted by a period of active service shall be permitted, upon request of that service member, to use during such period of service any vacation, annual, or similar leave with pay accrued by the service member before the commencement of such period of active service. | 8/15/2025 | 08/15/2025 | Leave_laws: Military; |
| IL | House | 1616 | Employee Blood and Organ Donation Leave Act | Amends the Employee Blood and Organ Donation Leave Act; provides that a participating employee or part-time employee may use up to 10 days of leave in any 12-month period to serve as an organ donor; provides that, for a part-time employee using leave to serve as an organ donor, the employer shall calculate the daily average pay the part-time employee received during his or her previous 2 months of employment and compensate the part-time employee in the amount of the daily average pay for leave days used. | 8/15/2025 | 01/01/2026 | Leave_laws: Blood_donation; Leave_laws: Organ_donation; |
| IL | House | 2978 | Family Neonatal Intensive Care Leave Act | Provides that an employee of an employer with a specified number or more employees and no more than a specified number of employees shall be entitled to use a maximum of a specified number of days of unpaid neonatal intensive care leave while any child of the employee is a patient in a neonatal intensive care unit; specifies unlawful employer practices; provides that the Attorney General may bring an action to enforce the collection of civil penalties; provides for the Neonatal Intensive Care Leave Fund. | 8/15/2025 | 06/01/2026 | Leave_laws: Neonatal_care; Leave_laws: Unpaid_leave; |
| IL | House | 3439 | Background Checks | Provides that an employee or volunteer of a day care center, day care home, or group day care home shall authorize a criminal background investigation every specified number of years, as required under the Child Care and Development Block Grant; removes provisions concerning the requirement that the Department of Early Childhood establish a secure background check portal that has certain capabilities. | 8/15/2025 | 01/01/2026 | Employer_Obligations: Background_checks; Employer_Obligations: Criminal_history; Industry: Child_care; |
| IL | House | 3638 | Workplace Transparency Act | Relates to workplace discrimination; provides that the Workplace Transparency Act does not apply to collective bargaining agreements subject to the State Public Labor Relations Act or National Labor Relations Act; provides that any agreement, clause, covenant or waiver that is a condition of employment or continued employment that prevents an employee from engaging in protected concerted activity to address work related issues is against public policy; provides for consequential damages and attorneys fees. | 8/15/2025 | 01/01/2026 | Agreements: Concerted_activity; Agreements: Employment; Agreements: Settlements; |
| IL | Senate | 2487 | Human Rights Act | Relates to civil rights violations and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charges; provides that the Department of Human Rights shall conduct an investigation; provides that if a complainant and respondent both submit a written request for a fact finding conference prior to a certain number of days after the date on which the charge was filed, the department shall conduct a fact finding conference unless, prior to receipt of requests, the Department has issued its report; provides for civil penalties. | 8/15/2025 | 01/01/2026 | Claims_and_Penalties: Complaints; Claims_and_Penalties: Discrimination; Federal_Laws: EEOC; Government: Department/Agency; Prohibited_Practices: Discrimination; |
| IL | Senate | 2339 | Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act | Amends the Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act; provides that an employer enrolled in an Employment Eligibility Verification System, including the E-Verify program, shall not impose work authorization verification or re-verification requirements greater than those required by the Employment Eligibility Verification System. | 10/14/2025 | | Employment_relations: E-verify; Employment_relations: Legal_work_status; |
| IL | Senate | 2703 | 2024 | Amends the Child Labor Law of 2024; provides that nothing in the Act prohibits a minor’s parent or legal guardian from employing the minor outside of school hours at a business in which the minor’s parent or legal guardian has at least 51% ownership and that employs no more than 50 employees. | 10/14/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| IL | House | 4076 | Paid Leave for All Workers Act | Amends the Paid Leave for All Workers Act; removes a provision that exempts from the Act any employee working in the construction industry who is covered by a Bona fide collective bargaining agreement; deletes the definition of construction industry. | 10/15/2025 | | Employment_relations: Construction_worker; Industry: Construction_service; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Paid_time_off; |
| IL | House | 4161 | Child Labor Law of 2024 | Amends the Child Labor Law of 2024; provides that nothing in the Act prohibits a minor’s parent or legal guardian from employing the minor outside of school hours at a business in which the minor’s parent or legal guardian has at least 51% ownership and that employs no more than 50 employees. | 10/15/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; Wage_and_Hour: Exemptions; |
| IL | H | 3266 | Prevailing Wage Act | Amends the Prevailing Wage Act; provides that, for purposes of the Act, the term public works also includes all private projects that are located in a tax increment financing district and paid for wholly or in part out of public funds, unless the total cost of the project is less than a specified dollar or the project is performed in a designated historic district requiring specialty contractors because of that designation. | 12/1/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Prevailing_wage; |
| IL | H | 4221 | Freedom To Work Act | Amends the Freedom to Work Act; provides that any covenant not to compete or covenant not to solicit entered into after the effective date of the Amendatory Act shall not be enforceable with respect to individuals employed as health care professionals, regardless of whether an individual is covered by a collective bargaining agreement. | 12/8/2025 | | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Covenant_not_solicit; Agreements: Non-compete; Agreements: Non-solicitation; Employment_relations: Health_care_practiti; Employment_relations: Physician |
| IL | H | 1312 | Illinois Bivens Act | Creates the Illinois Bivens Act; authorizes any person to bring a civil action against any person who, while conducting civil immigration enforcement, knowingly engages in conduct that violates the Illinois Constitution or the United States Constitution; specifies that qualified immunity is a defense to liability under the Illinois Bivens Act; makes changes in provisions concerning the availability of the qualified immunity defense under the Court Access, Safety, and Participation Act. | 12/9/2025 | 12/09/2025 | Prohibited_Practices: Bivens_Act; Prohibited_Practices: Retaliation; Prohibited_Practices: Whistleblower; |
| IL | S | 2339 | Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act | Amends the Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act; provides that employer shall not take any adverse action against the employee solely based on the receipt of the notification if an employer receives a written notification from any federal agency or other outside vendor not responsible for the enforcement of immigration law, including, but not limited to, the Social Security Administration, the Internal Revenue Service, or an insurance company. | 12/12/2025 | 12/12/2025 | Employment_relations: E-verify; Employment_relations: Legal_work_status; |
| IN | House | 1022 | Antisemitism | Provides that “antisemitism” has the meaning set forth in the May 26, 2016, working definition of antisemitism adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Provides that an act of antisemitism constitutes a discriminatory practice. Requires certain training materials to contain an educational program to protect against antisemitism. | 1/8/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Antisemitism; |
| IN | House | 1178 | Medical Marijuana | Permits the use of medical marijuana by persons with serious medical conditions as determined by their physician; establishes a medical marijuana program to permit the cultivation, processing, testing, transportation, and dispensing of medical marijuana by holders of a valid permit; requires the Indiana department of health (state department) to implement and enforce the medical marijuana program. | 1/8/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Negligent_hiring; Prohibited_Practices: Medical_marijuana; Workplace_Behavior: Marijuana; |
| IN | House | 1181 | Worker Classification on Public Projects | Requires a contractor in any contractor tier except for tier 1 (a general or prime contractor) on a public works project or tax advantaged construction project to complete a weekly report of wages and hours of the contractor’s employees who work on the project; requires the department of labor to employ an investigator to investigate complaints of employee misclassification; provides that the investigator shall be located at the Marion County prosecuting attorney’s office. | 1/8/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Misclassification; Employer_Obligations: Reporting_required; Industry: Contractor; Industry: Govt_contractor; Industry: Subcontractor; |
| IN | Senate | 29 | Voluntary Family Leave Insurance Program | Requires the department of insurance; establishes not later than a specified date, a voluntary family leave insurance program; provides benefits to employees who elect to participate in the program; sets forth requirements for the program; allows the department to contract with an outside vendor; administers the program; requires the department, not later than a specified date; submits a report to the legislative council and the budget committee. | 1/8/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; |
| IN | Senate | 93 | Common Construction Wage Requirements | Requires any firm, individual, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation that is awarded a contract, after June 30, 2025, by the state, a political subdivision, or a municipal corporation for the construction of a public work, and any subcontractor of the construction, to pay a scale of wages that is not less than the common construction wage; establishes a process for determining the common construction wage; provides the contractor or subcontractor who knowingly fails to pay will be fined. | 1/8/2025 | | Industry: Contractor; Industry: General_contractor; Industry: Govt_contractor; Industry: Subcontractor; Industry: Subcontractors; Wage_and_Hour: Prevailing_wage |
| IN | Senate | 115 | Paid Family and Medical Leave Program | Requires the department of workforce development (department) to establish a paid family and medical leave program (program) to provide payments for employees who take family and medical leave; establishes the family and medical leave fund to be funded with appropriations from the general assembly and payroll contributions; specifies requirements for the administration of the program; provides for the department to approve an employer’s use of a private plan to meet the program obligations. | 1/8/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Emergency; Leave_laws: Exigency; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Military Leave_laws: Paid_leave Leave_laws: Parental Leave_laws: Pregnancy |
| IN | Senate | 156 | Prohibits Employment Discrimination Based on Filing | Provides that an employer may not discriminate against an employee with respect to compensation and benefits from the employer or terms and conditions of employment based on: (1) the employee’s filing of a petition for a protective order, whether or not the protective order has been issued; or (2) the actions of an individual against whom the employee has filed a protective order. | 1/8/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Protective_order; |
| IN | House | 1300 | Wage History Restrictions | Relates to wage history and wage range; prohibits, with certain exceptions, an employer from relying on the wage history of an applicant in the hiring process and in determining wages; prohibits an employer from failing or refusing to, disclose the wage or wage range and a general description of benefits in a posting for a job, promotion, transfer, or other employment opportunity, and provide an employee with the current wage or wage range and a general description of the benefits upon hire, promotion. | 1/9/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Salary_history; Employer_Obligations: Wage-range; Employer_Obligations: Wage_history; Employment_relations: Applicant; Employment_relations: Hiring; |
| IN | House | 1332 | Cannabis | Relates to cannabis; establishes a procedure for the lawful production and sale of cannabis in State; makes conforming amendments; makes an appropriation. | 1/9/2025 | | Workplace_Behavior: Cannabis; Workplace_Behavior: Drug_testing; Workplace_Behavior: Marijuana; |
| IN | Senate | 113 | Cannabis Regulation and Taxation | Relates to cannabis regulation; permits the use of cannabis by, a person at specified years of age, and a person with a serious medical condition as determined by the person’s physician; establishes the adult use cannabis excise tax, and requires a retailer to transfer the tax to the department of state revenue for deposit in the state general fund; exempts veterans from payment of the sales tax on medical or adult use cannabis; establishes a cannabis program (program) to permit the cultivation. | 1/9/2025 | | Workplace_Behavior: Cannabis; Workplace_Behavior: Drug-free_workplace; Workplace_Behavior: Drug_testing; Workplace_Behavior: Marijuana; |
| IN | House | 1338 | Employment and Vaccinations | Relates to employment and vaccinations; provides that an employer may require an immunization only if the employer respects the employee’s right to refuse an immunization; provides that an employee shall be free from coercion or an adverse action based on the employee’s refusal of an immunization; requires an employer that offers an immunization at no cost to an employee to provide certain notice to the employee; provides that a violation may be reported to the department of labor. | 1/10/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Immunization_status; Prohibited_Practices: Vaccination_status; |
| IN | House | 1363 | Public Works Projects | Relates to public works projects; provides that a contractor that employs 10 or more employees on a design-build public works project must provide its employees access to a training program applicable to the tasks to be performed in the normal course of the employee’s employment with the contractor on the public project; provides that a tier 1 or tier 2 contractor that employs 50 or more journeymen must participate in an apprenticeship or training program. | 1/10/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Training; Industry: Govt_contractor; |
| IN | House | 1364 | Minimum Wage | Relates to minimum wage; provides that, for any work week beginning on or after July 1, 2025, the minimum wage paid to certain employees is 0.008% of the governor’s annual salary. | 1/10/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| IN | House | 1372 | Prohibited Discriminatory Practices | Relates to prohibited discriminatory practices; prohibits discrimination based upon an individual’s status as an active member of the armed forces, gender identity, or sexual orientation; expands nondiscriminatory public policies of the state to include sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, and national origin as protected classes. | 1/10/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Gender_identity; Prohibited_Practices: Sex; Prohibited_Practices: Sexual_orientation; |
| IN | House | 1374 | Right to Work Law | Relates to repeal of right to work law; repeals the chapter prohibiting a person from requiring, labor organization membership, payment of dues or fees to a labor organization, or payment to a charity or third party of an amount equivalent to dues or fees required by a labor organization, as a condition of employment; makes corresponding changes. | 1/10/2025 | | Labor_Law: Right_to_work; |
| IN | Senate | 385 | E Verify Program | Relates to E-Verify program; requires a construction manager as contractor and a subcontractor of any tier to submit the E-Verify case verification number for an individual to the public agency before the individual begins work on a public works project; provides that a public agency may not enter into a contract for a public works project with a contractor unless, the contract contains certain provisions. | 1/10/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: E-verify; Employment_relations: E-verify; Employment_relations: Legal_work_status; |
| IN | House | 1418 | Unauthorized Alien | Relates to unauthorized alien; requires certain employers to use the E-Verify program to verify the work eligibility status of all employees of the employer hired after June 30, 2025; prohibits an employer from intentionally doing the following, employing an unauthorized alien; enters a contract, subcontract, or an independent contractor agreement with a person, to obtain the labor of an unauthorized alien in Indiana, or that employs or contracts with an unauthorized alien. | 1/13/2025 | | Employment_relations: E-verify; Employment_relations: Legal_work_status; Employment_relations: Unauthorized; |
| IN | Senate | 449 | Health Care Service Provider Employees | Relates to health care service provider employees; requires a home health agency or personal services agency to run a criminal background check on certain employees on an annual basis; increases the judgment against a home health agency or personal services agency when an employee who has been convicted of a crime prohibiting the individual’s employment by the home health agency or personal services agency provides care that results in the death of a patient or client. | 1/13/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Background_checks; Employer_Obligations: Criminal_history; Industry: Health_care; Industry: Home_care; |
| IN | House | 1551 | Collective Bargaining | Provides that nothing in provisions concerning the right to work is intended or should be construed to change or affect certain Laws in the building and construction industry, construction material production industry, building and construction suppliers industry, or construction related vendors industry. | 1/21/2025 | | Agreements: Collective_bargainin; Industry: Construction_service; Labor_Law: Right_to_work; |
| IN | House | 1647 | Paid Mental Health Leave | Entitles an employee to at least 36 hours of paid mental health leave per calendar year; provides that unused paid mental health leave rolls over to the next calendar year and that an employer is not required to pay out unused paid mental health leave upon the termination of an employment relationship; requires an employee to provide reasonable advance notice when paid mental health leave will be used; prohibits an employer from discriminating or taking adverse/. | 1/21/2025 | | Leave_laws: Mental_health; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| IN | Senate | 409 | Employee Absence | Prohibits an employer from taking an adverse employment action against an employee as a result of the employee’s absence from work to attend an attendance conference or a case conference committee meeting with respect to the employee’s child; provides that an employer may take an adverse employment action against an employee as a result of the employee’s absence from work to attend a conference or meeting if the employee has attended more than one conference or more for the calendar year. | 5/1/2025 | 07/01/2025 | Leave_laws: School; |
| IN | Senate | 475 | Physician Noncompete Agreements | Provides that noncompete agreement means a contract, or any part of a contract, to which a physician is a party that has the purpose or effect of restricting or penalizing a physician’s ability to engage in the practice of medicine in any geographic area, for any period of time, after the physician’s employment relationship with a hospital, a parent company of a hospital, an affiliated manager of a hospital, or a hospital system has ended. | 5/6/2025 | 07/01/2025 | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Non-compete; Employment_relations: Physician; |
| IN | H | 1054 | Plumbing Noncompete Agreements | Relates to plumbing noncompete agreements; defines noncompete agreement; provides that a noncompete agreement entered into, on or after April 1, 2026, and between an employer and certain persons in the plumbing trade, is void and unenforceable. | 12/5/2025 | | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Non-compete; Industry: Plumbing; |
| IN | H | 1057 | Public Works Projects | Relates to public works projects; provides that a contractor that employs 10 or more employees on a design-build public works project must provide its employees access to a training program applicable to the tasks to be performed in the normal course of the employee’s employment with the contractor on the public project; provides that a tier 1 or tier 2 contractor that employs 50 or more journeymen must participate in an apprenticeship or training program that meets certain standards. | 12/5/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Training; Industry: Construction_service; Industry: General_contractor; Industry: Govt_contractor; Industry: Subcontractor; |
| IN | S | 20 | Voluntary Family Leave Insurance Program | Relates to voluntary family leave insurance program; requires the department of insurance (department) to establish, not later than January 1, 2027, a voluntary family leave insurance program (program) for the purpose of providing benefits to employees who elect to participate in the program; sets forth requirements for the program; allows the department to contract with an outside vendor to administer the program; requires the department, not later than November 1, 2026. | 12/8/2025 | | Federal_Laws: FMLA; Leave_laws: Family; |
| IN | S | 87 | Public Works Project E-Verify Requirements | Relates to E-Verify requirements for public works projects; requires a public contract for services for a public works project to include provisions, requiring contractors and subcontractors of any tier to verify the work eligibility of all employees through the E-Verify program, and requiring contractors and subcontractors of any tier to provide the public agency and the general contractor, construction manager, or CMc with the E-Verify case verification number. | 12/8/2025 | | Employment_relations: E-verify; Employment_relations: Legal_work_status; Industry: General_contractor; Industry: Govt_contractor; Industry: Subcontractor; |
| KS | House | 2066 | Prohibition of Employing of Unauthorized Alien | Relates to requiring business entities and public employers; registers and uses the E-Verify program for employment purposes; prohibits income tax deductions for wages and remuneration; pays to unauthorized aliens. | 1/24/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: E-verify; Employment_relations: E-verify; Employment_relations: Legal_work_status; Employment_relations: Unauthorized; |
| KS | Senate | 153 | Establishing the State Paid Prenatal Personal Leave Act | Relates to establishing the State Paid Prenatal Personal Leave Act; requires employers; provide 20 hours of paid prenatal personal leave. | 2/4/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Pregnancy; |
| KS | Senate | 120 | The Municipal Employee Whistleblower Act | Relates to enacting the municipal employee whistleblower act to provide statutory protections for municipal employees who report or disclose unlawful or dangerous conduct. | 2/5/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| KS | Senate | 216 | Establishing the State Paid Sick Time Act | Relates to establishing the Kansas paid sick time act, setting accrual, usage and employer obligations regarding earned paid sick time and making it unlawful for employers to retaliate against employees exercising rights under the act. | 2/6/2025 | | Leave_laws: Domestic_violence; Leave_laws: Emergency; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Quarantine; Leave_laws: Safe Leave_laws: Sexual_assault Leave_laws: Sick Leave_laws: Stalking |
| KS | House | 2239 | Providing Employee with Meal Periods and Rest Periods | Requires every employer; provides each employee with meal periods and rest periods. | 2/7/2025 | | Hours_worked: Meal_break; Hours_worked: Rest_break; |
| KS | Senate | 220 | Unlawful Employments Under Child Labor Laws | Relates to increasing the penalty for unlawful employment under child labor Laws. | 2/11/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| KS | Senate | 196 | Prohibiting the Employment of Unauthorized Aliens | Relates to requiring business entities and public employers to register and use the e-verify program for employment purposes and prohibiting income tax deductions for wages and remuneration paid to unauthorized aliens. | 3/3/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: E-verify; Employment_relations: Legal_work_status; |
| KS | Senate | 30 | Criminal History Record Check on Employees | Relates to criminal history record information; relates to State and national criminal history record checks; requires the Secretary of Labor to conduct such checks on employees who have access to federal tax information. | 3/27/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| KY | Senate | 11 | Wages | Increases 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; raises incrementally the minimum wage to $15.00 an hour; includes anti-preemption language permitting local governments to establishes minimum wage ordinances in excess of the state minimum wage. | 1/9/2025 | | Government: Local_authority; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| KY | Senate | 49 | Heat Injury Prevention | Defines terms; requires employers who provide services in agriculture, construction, landscaping, and transportation to maintain a written heat illness prevention plan informing employees of policies and procedures to be followed when an employee is suffering from a heat illness; establishes a penalty for a violation. | 1/9/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Policy_requirement; Employer_Obligations: Training; Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: Heat; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; |
| KY | House | 57 | Employment Advertising | Prohibits employers from publishing job postings for ghost jobs; establishes a penalty for violations. | 2/4/2025 | | Employment_relations: Job_postings; |
| KY | House | 67 | Minimum Wage for Employers | Raises minimum wage for employers to $9.50 an hour on the effective date of this Act and incrementally thereafter to $15.00 an hour on July 1, 2029; raises the state minimum wage for tipped employees to $5.00 an hour on the effective date of this Act. | 2/4/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Tip_credit; Wage_and_Hour: Tips; |
| KY | House | 128 | Criminal Histories of Job Applicants | Prohibits employers from considering or requiring disclosure of prior criminal history as part of the initial job application; provides that the Act may be cited as the Ban the Box The Criminal Record Employment Discrimination Act. | 2/4/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Application; Employer_Obligations: Criminal_history; Employment_relations: Applicant; Prohibited_Practices: Ban-the-box; Prohibited_Practices: Criminal_history; |
| KY | House | 135 | Workplace Violence Against Drivers | Expands assault in the third degree to include causing or attempting to cause physical injury to a driver of any form of public transportation acting in the course and scope of the driver’s employment. | 2/4/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| KY | House | 138 | Earned Paid Sick Leave | Requires employers to provide earned paid sick leave to employees; provides that employees earn paid sick leave upon the date of hire and can use the leave after being employed for 90 days; sets forth allowable uses of accrued earned paid sick leave; designates how notice of need to use earned paid sick leave is provided by employees; establishes the penalty for employers that fail to follow earned paid sick leave requirements. | 2/4/2025 | | Leave_laws: Domestic_violence; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Safe; Leave_laws: Sexual_assault; Leave_laws: Sick |
| KY | House | 166 | Worker Compensation | Eliminates the requirement that physicians contracting with the commissioner of the Department of Workers’ Claims to perform evaluations in occupational disease claims be B readers who are licensed in Kentucky and are board-certified pulmonary specialists; allows 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. | 2/4/2025 | | Workers_Comp: Workers_comp; |
| KY | Senate | 102 | Civil Rights | Defines terms; relates to the purpose of the Kentucky’s civil rights chapter, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; prohibits discrimination in various labor and employment practices, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; prohibits discrimination in places of public accommodation, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; relates to the state and local human rights commissions. | 2/6/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Familial_status; Prohibited_Practices: Gender_identity; Prohibited_Practices: Sexual_orientation; |
| KY | House | 224 | Employment | Deletes references restricting rights of public employees to organize, associate collectively, or strike; redefines labor organization; deletes definitions of candidate, committee, contributing organization, contribution, election, electioneering communications, employer, fundraiser, independent expenditure, political activities, public employee, slate of candidates, and testimonial affair; allows urban-county governments to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership. | 2/7/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| KY | House | 225 | Employment | Deletes references restricting rights of public employees to organize, associate collectively, or strike; redefines labor organization; deletes all other definitions; allows urban-county governments to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization as a condition of employment; allows consolidated local governments to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization as a condition of employment; removes exceptions. | 2/7/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| KY | House | 229 | Labor Standards | Requires every employer to establishes a workplace policy that provides employees the right to disconnect from communications from the employer during nonworking hours; provides a penalty for violation of the lunch period requirements in KRS 337.355 and for violation by an employer of a right to disconnect workplace policy. | 2/7/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Policy_requirement; Hours_worked: Nonwork_hours; |
| KY | House | 235 | Civil Rights | Defines terms; relates to the purpose of the State’s civil rights chapter; prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; prohibits discrimination in various labor and employment practices; includes discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; prohibits discrimination in places of public accommodation and advertisements therefor; includes discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. | 2/7/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Familial_status; Prohibited_Practices: Gender_identity; Prohibited_Practices: Sexual_orientation; |
| KY | House | 287 | Leave From Employment | Relates to court-ordered appearances by employees, to define terms; prohibits 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; requires an employee to give an employer reasonable notice to take leave when practicable; provides guidelines for use of paid leave; requires the employer to maintain confidentiality of records and communication with employee crime victim; creates a private right of act. | 2/7/2025 | | Leave_laws: Victim; |
| KY | House | 289 | Wages for Employment | Makes 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; allows previous salary to be considered when required by law, for internal transfers, and for public employee positions; requires notice to be posted for employees; asses a civil. | 2/7/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Salary_history; Employer_Obligations: Wage_history; Employment_relations: Applicant; Employment_relations: Hiring; |
| KY | House | 362 | Wage Transparency | Defines job posting and wage range; requires all employers to include the wages or wage range for the advertised position in any job posting. | 2/7/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Application; Employer_Obligations: Wage-range; Employment_relations: Applicant; Employment_relations: Job_advertisements; Employment_relations: Job_postings; |
| KY | House | 602 | Employment | Deletes references restricting rights of public employees to organize, associate collectively, or strike; redefines labor organization and delete definitions of candidate, committee, contributing organization, contribution, election, electioneering communications, employer, fundraiser, independent expenditure, political activities, public employee, slate of candidates, and testimonial affair; allows urban-county governments to make an agreement with a labor organization. | 2/18/2025 | | |
| KY | Senate | 234 | Non Compete Clauses | Defines terms; makes non-compete clauses unenforceable and provide notice requirements. | 2/20/2025 | | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Non-compete; |
| KY | Senate | 246 | Conditions of Employment | Requires employers that mandate employee immunization to allow exceptions based on religious belief or medical contraindication; provides sample form for employee affirmation; establishes which health care providers can support a medical exemption; requires notice of exemptions; establishes civil cause of action for violations and a claim under workers’ compensation; makes it an unlawful practice for employers to require immunizations as a condition of employment from employees who hold sincere religious. | 2/20/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Accommodation; Employer_Obligations: Religious_exemption; Prohibited_Practices: Immunization; |
| KY | Senate | 263 | Unemployment Insurance | Relates unemployment insurance benefits, to reduce the required weekly work search activities and to state that applications to and interviews with different locations of the same franchise constitute separate work searches. | 2/20/2025 | | |
| KY | House | 564 | Wages | Increases the applicable threshold of employees of retail stores and service industries average annual gross volume of sales for the employer; raises incrementally, the minimum wage of hourly and tipped employees; requires adherence to any future federal increase in excess of the new state wage rates; includes anti-preemption language permitting local governments; establishes minimum wage ordinances in excess of the state minimum wage. | 2/25/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Exemptions; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Tip_credit; Wage_and_Hour: Tips; |
| KY | Senate | 79 | State Personnel | Defines intern employee and intern position; requires a member of the Personnel Board to vacate his or her position or have the board terminate his or her position if he or she separates from the classified service; does not require the Personnel Board to promulgate administrative regulations pertaining to employee fines or employee reemployment after a layoff; allows the secretary of the Personnel Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to implement scholarship programs, internship programs. | 2/25/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| KY | House | 593 | Minimum Wage for Essential Workers | Defines essential employee; sets a minimum wage for essential employees. | 2/26/2025 | | Employment_relations: Essential_employees; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| KY | House | 594 | Prohibited Employment Agreements | Prohibits an employer from conditioning employment or employment benefits on an employee signing specified types of releases and agreements related to unlawful acts in the workplace; prohibits specified provisions related to harassment in settlement agreements in civil and administrative actions with exceptions. | 2/26/2025 | | Agreements: Employment; Agreements: Non-disparagement; Agreements: Release; |
| KY | House | 598 | Employment Provisions for Employees on Parental Leave | Requires employers with specified number of employees to provide specified weeks of paid parental leave for an employee who has been employed for at least one year; allows an employee to waive the paid parental leave; provides for the promulgation of administrative regulations. | 2/26/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Parental; |
| KY | House | 599 | Wages | Removes specified individuals from the definition of employee and to define worker with a disability; requires all employers to pay all employees, including workers with a disability, a minimum wage and increase the state minimum wage over the next three years to no less than specified percent of the municipality, county, or state minimum wage or the prevailing wage; removes learners, apprentices, workers with a disability, sheltered workshop employees, and students. | 2/26/2025 | | Employment_relations: Disabled_employee; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Subminimum_wage; |
| KY | House | 631 | Employment Schedules | Creates new sections of specified chapter requiring employers to give employees a good-faith schedule of hours to be worked, to have a voluntary standby list of employees who wish to work additional hours, to post weekly schedules at least seven days in advance, and to provide certain rest periods for employees from being scheduled; allows employees to identify time limitations for scheduling work hours; requires compensation for employer changes to the schedule; sets forth unlawful practices. | 2/26/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employment_relations: New_employee; Employment_relations: Standby_lists; Employment_relations: Work_schedule; Employment_relations: Work_shifts; Hours_worked: Reporting_time Hours_worked: Show_up_time Wage_and_Hour: Reporting_pay Wage_and_Hour: Show_up_pay |
| KY | House | 632 | Leave From Employment | Defines terms crime, immediate family, and victim; prohibits employers from discharging or retaliating against an employee who is a crime victim when the employee takes leave to attend proceedings associated with the prosecution of a crime; requires an employee to give an employer reasonable notice to take leave when practicable; provides guidelines for use of paid leave; requires the employer to maintain confidentiality of records and communication with employee crime victim. | 2/26/2025 | | Leave_laws: Court_appearance; Leave_laws: Victim; |
| KY | House | 656 | Employment Discrimination | Adds protections against discrimination based on weight. | 2/26/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Weight; |
| KY | House | 673 | Employment of Unauthorized Aliens | Defines terms; prohibits employment of unauthorized aliens; requires business entities and employers to enroll in E-Verify and verify employment eligibility of all employees; establishes penalties for violations; provides guidelines for verification of employment eligibility by employers seeking economic incentives from the state; requires enrollment and use of E-Verify to receive contracts, grants, or incentives from the state, a political subdivision, or state-funded entity. | 2/26/2025 | | Employment_relations: E-verify; Employment_relations: Hiring; Employment_relations: Immigration_status; Employment_relations: Legal_work_status; |
| KY | House | 690 | Contracts | Defines covenant not to compete and covered employee; provides that an employer shall not require a covered employee to enter into a covenant not to compete; sets forth civil remedy, damages that can be recovered, and limitations to bring claim; provides that the provisions must be posted by the employer; indicates that an employer shall not retaliate against an employee for bringing a civil action; establishes application of provisions; provides civil penalties. | 2/26/2025 | | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Non-compete; |
| KY | House | 692 | Termination of Employment Without Cause | Defines terms and make the termination of employment without cause unlawful; establishes amount that may be recovered for wrongful discharge; specifies when the employers’ internal procedures are to be used. | 2/26/2025 | | Employment_relations: At-will; Employment_relations: Good_cause; Employment_relations: Just_cause; |
| KY | House | 771 | Paid Family Leave for State Employees | Provides an employee of the Commonwealth in the judicial or legislative branch of the state government a paid leave of absence of up to a specified weeks for the birth, adoption, foster care placement, or serious health condition of a child; establishes requirements; provides the paid leave benefits to classified employees in the executive branch of state government. | 2/27/2025 | | |
| KY | House | 780 | Employment | Removes exemptions in definition of employee for agricultural workers and domestic service workers; indicates that agricultural employers are subject to a specified KRS Chapter; removes exemptions for domestic service employees and agricultural employees from coverage under a specified KRS Chapter; amends various other sections to conform. | 2/27/2025 | | Employment_relations: Agricultural_employe; Employment_relations: Domestic_worker; Wage_and_Hour: Exemptions; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Subminimum_wage; |
| KY | House | 791 | Misclassification of Employees | Provides a remedy for employees misclassified as independent contractors; defines independent contractor and misclassified. | 2/27/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Misclassification; Employment_relations: Employee; Employment_relations: Independent_contract; |
| KY | House | 801 | Employment | Prohibits all employers of 75 or more employees from demoting, dismissing, disciplining, or discriminating against an employee who misses work because of duties related to being a candidate, candidate-elect, or member of the General Assembly or legislative body of a local government; requires an employer grant a leave of absence if the employee requests it, not to exceed three terms for a member of the House of Representatives, two terms for a member of the Senate or a member of a legislative body. | 2/27/2025 | | Leave_laws: Govt_appointment; Leave_laws: Legislative; |
| KY | House | 398 | Occupational Safety and Health | Provides that on appeal, the Franklin Circuit Court may award actual expenses incurred, including court costs and attorney’s fees, against the department; provides that representatives a representative of the employer shall be given the opportunity to accompany the commissioner or the authorized representative of the commissioner during the physical inspection of any place of employment. | 3/27/2025 | 06/27/2025 (Updated) | Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; |
| LA | House | 429 | Employment and Discrimination | Provides relative to employment discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. | 4/14/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Gender_identity; Prohibited_Practices: Sexual_orientation; |
| LA | Senate | 205 | Employment | Provides for employment practices related to wage history, wage disclosure, and retaliation. | 4/14/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Applications; Employer_Obligations: Salary_history; Employer_Obligations: Wage_history; Employment_relations: Applicant; |
| LA | Senate | 206 | Employment | Provides relative to the state minimum wage. | 4/14/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| LA | Senate | 223 | Employment | Establishes the Retail Service Worker Health and Safety Act. | 4/14/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Panic_button; Employer_Obligations: Policy_requirement; Employer_Obligations: Risk_assessment; Employer_Obligations: Training; Employer_Obligations: Workplace_violence; Industry: Retail |
| LA | House | 338 | Health and Anatomical Gifts | Provides relative to paid leave for living organ donations. | 5/12/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bone_marrow_donation; Leave_laws: Organ_donation; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| LA | Senate | 66 | Discrimination | Prohibits discrimination in public schools on account of race, creed, color, disability, national origin, or natural, protective, or cultural hairstyle; adds military status to the list; prohibits discrimination in employment on account of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or natural, protective, or cultural hairstyle; adds military status to the list; prohibits discrimination in public buildings and in the sale or rental of housing on account of, among other things, military status. | 6/10/2025 | 08/01/2025 | Prohibited_Practices: Military_status; |
| LA | Senate | 133 | Payment of Employees | Provides that upon discharge of any laborer or other employee, an employer will pay the employee the amount then due, whether the employment is by the hour, day, week, or month, on or before the next regular payday or no later than a specified number of days following the date of discharge, whichever occurs first; provides that this will not apply to profits interest granted or issued by an entity taxed as a partnership for federal income tax purposes. | 6/10/2025 | 08/01/2025 | Wage_Payment: Deductions; Wage_Payment: Final_payment; Wage_Payment: Pay_frequency; |
| MA | House | 10 | Nondisclosure Agreements | Relates to nondisclosure agreements. | 2/27/2025 | | Agreements: Non-disclosure; Agreements: Settlements; Prohibited_Practices: Discrimination; Prohibited_Practices: Retaliation; Prohibited_Practices: Sexual_assault; Prohibited_Practices: Sexual_harassment |
| MA | Senate | 1374 | Mandated Use of Paid Time Off | Relates to mandated use of paid time off for quarantine purposes. | 3/13/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Quarantine; |
| MA | House | 2128 | Compensation of Employees | Relates to compensation of certain employees. | 3/14/2025 | | Leave_laws: Holidays; Leave_laws: Sunday; |
| MA | House | 2081 | Minimum Gratuity While Dining | Relates to minimum gratuity while dining. | 3/18/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Service_charge; |
| MA | House | 1986 | Ratification of the Child Labor Amendment | Provides for the ratification of the child labor amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. | 3/20/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| MA | House | 2161 | Fair and Full Employee Compensation | Relates to ensuring fair and full employee compensation. | 3/20/2025 | | Wage_Payment: Manner_of_payment; |
| MA | Senate | 1196 | Child Labor Exploitation and Trafficking | Prevents child labor exploitation and trafficking by increasing fines and penalties. | 3/26/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| MA | House | 2106 | Bereavement Leave | Relates to bereavement leave under the family and medical leave act. | 5/7/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bereavement; |
| MA | House | 2146 | Employment Protections for Domestic Violence Victims | Relates to employment protections for domestic violence victims. | 5/7/2025 | | Leave_laws: Domestic_violence; Leave_laws: Sexual_assault; Leave_laws: Stalking; Leave_laws: Unpaid_leave; |
| MA | House | 2188 | Bereavement Leave | Relates to bereavement leave. | 5/7/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bereavement; Leave_laws: Unpaid_leave; |
| MA | House | 2189 | Bereavement Leave | Relates to bereavement leave. | 5/7/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bereavement; Leave_laws: Unpaid_leave; |
| MA | Senate | 1286 | Use of Credit Reports by Employers | Regulates the use of credit reports by employers. | 5/7/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Background_checks; Prohibited_Practices: Credit_history; Prohibited_Practices: Credit_reports; |
| MA | Senate | 1287 | Bereavement Leave | Ensures bereavement leave. | 5/7/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bereavement; |
| MA | Senate | 1354 | Bereavement Leave | Relates to bereavement leave. | 5/7/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bereavement; |
| MA | Senate | 2208 | Election Day | Establishes Election Day as a holiday and providing paid voting leave. | 5/7/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Voting; |
| MA | House | 2065 | Four Day Work Week | Provides that the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development be Authorizes to establish a specified number of day work week pilot program. | 5/27/2025 | | Hours_worked: 32_hours; |
| MA | Senate | 1304 | Infant Friendly Workplaces | Promotes infant friendly workplaces by allowing guardians to bring infants aged six weeks to six months to the workplace. | 5/27/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Accommodation; Employer_Obligations: Infant_in_workplace; |
| MA | Senate | 1361 | Paid Prenatal Leave | Provides that would require employers to give employees a specified number of hours of paid prenatal leave during a specified number of week calendar. | 5/27/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Pregnancy; |
| MA | Senate | 1229 | Construction Private Attorney General Actions | Protects honest employers by creating construction private attorney general actions. | 5/30/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Private_attorney_gen; Industry: Construction_service; |
| MA | House | 2006 | Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Policies | Strengths sexual harassment and discrimination policies in the Commonwealth. | 6/12/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Discrimination; Prohibited_Practices: Sexual_harassment; |
| MA | House | 2103 | Warehouse Workers | Relates to warehouse workers. | 6/12/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Recordkeeping; Employer_Obligations: Terms_and_conditions; Employment_relations: New_employee; Industry: Warehouses; Wage_and_Hour: Quotas Wage_and_Hour: Work_speed |
| MA | House | 2142 | Prevention of Workplace Violence | Prevents workplace violence. | 6/12/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Policy_requirement; Employer_Obligations: Risk_assessment; Employer_Obligations: Training; Employer_Obligations: Workplace_violence; Industry: Human_services; |
| MA | Senate | 1307 | Warehouse Workers | Protects warehouse workers. | 6/12/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Recordkeeping; Employer_Obligations: Terms_and_conditions; Employment_relations: New_employee; Industry: Warehouses; Wage_and_Hour: Quotas Wage_and_Hour: Work_speed |
| MA | Senate | 1308 | Wage Law and Remote Workforce | Relates to the wage law and remote workforce. | 6/12/2025 | | Agreements: Employment; Agreements: Hiring; Agreements: Jurisdiction; Employment_relations: Remote_employee; |
| MA | Senate | 1310 | Injured Workers | Protects injured workers. | 6/12/2025 | | Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: Injury; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; |
| MA | Senate | 1355 | Extreme Temperature Worker Protections | Establishes extreme temperature worker protections. | 6/12/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Monitoring; Employer_Obligations: Policy_requirement; Employer_Obligations: Training; Hours_worked: Rest_break; Workplace_Behavior: Cold; Workplace_Behavior: Health Workplace_Behavior: Heat Workplace_Behavior: PPE Workplace_Behavior: Safety Workplace_Behavior: Shade Workplace_Behavior: Temperature Workplace_Behavior: Water |
| MA | Senate | 1357 | Workers in Hot Conditions | Establishes protections for workers in hot conditions. | 6/12/2025 | | Hours_worked: Rest_break; Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: Heat; Workplace_Behavior: Shade; Workplace_Behavior: Water; |
| MA | House | 2364 | Workplace Safety Training for Home Healthcare Workers | Regulates annual workplace safety training for home healthcare workers. | 6/16/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Policy_requirement; Employer_Obligations: Training; Employer_Obligations: Workplace_violence; Industry: Home_care; Leave_laws: Victim; |
| MA | House | 2448 | Registered Nurse Patient Assignment | Relates to registered nurse patient assignment. | 6/16/2025 | | Employment_relations: Nurse; Employment_relations: Staffing; Industry: Hospitals; |
| MA | Senate | 466 | Protection of Vulnerable Elders From Abuse | Protects vulnerable elders from abuse. | 6/27/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Elder_abuse; Prohibited_Practices: Retaliation; Prohibited_Practices: Whistleblower; |
| MA | House | 3107 | Taxation of and Overtime Pay for Agricultural Laborers | Relates to taxation of and overtime pay for agricultural laborers. | 7/1/2025 | | Employment_relations: Agricultural_employe; Industry: Agriculture; Wage_and_Hour: Overtime; |
| MA | Senate | 2011 | Overtime Pay for Agricultural Laborers | Relates to overtime pay for agricultural laborers. | 7/1/2025 | | Industry: Agriculture; Wage_and_Hour: Overtime; |
| MA | Senate | 2012 | Agricultural Laborers | Establishes fairness for agricultural laborers. | 7/1/2025 | | Industry: Agriculture; Leave_laws: Paid_time_off; |
| MA | House | 2083 | Family and Medical Leave | Relates to family and medical leave. | 7/9/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; |
| MA | House | 2086 | Labor Organizing Rights | Relates to labor organizing rights. | 7/9/2025 | | Labor_Law: Labor_law; |
| MA | House | 2109 | Paid Family Medical Leave | Relates to the definitions of covered business entities and covered contract workers under paid family medical leave. | 7/9/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MA | House | 2110 | Paid Family Medical Leave | Relates to paid family medical leave. | 7/9/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MA | House | 2139 | Railroad Workers Earned Sick Time | Relates to railroad workers earned sick time. | 7/9/2025 | | Industry: Railroad; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| MA | House | 2147 | Employee Reference Liability | Relates to employee reference liability. | 7/9/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: References; |
| MA | House | 2155 | Self Certification of Family or Medical Leave Benefits | Provides for the self-certification of family or medical leave benefits for small businesses. | 7/9/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; |
| MA | House | 2167 | Wrongful Discharge from Employment | Relates to wrongful discharge from employment. | 7/9/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Wrongful_discharge; Employment_relations: At-will; Employment_relations: Good_cause; Employment_relations: Just_cause; |
| MA | Senate | 1290 | Collective Bargaining Right | Relates to collective bargaining right. | 7/9/2025 | | |
| MA | Senate | 1342 | Railroad Workers Earned Sick Time | Provides railroad workers’ earned sick time. | 7/9/2025 | | Industry: Railroad; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| MA | House | 2077 | Human Resources Department | Requires certain employers to establish and maintain a human resources department. | 7/10/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Human_resources; |
| MA | House | 2087 | Labor Organizations | Relates to privileged communication between individuals and labor organizations. | 7/10/2025 | | Agreements: Collective_bargainin; Labor_Law: Labor_law; |
| MA | House | 2090 | Remote Employees | Relates to remote employees. | 7/10/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Choice_of_law; Employment_relations: Remote_employee; |
| MA | House | 2152 | Parental Leave Under Family and Medical Leave Program | Relates to parental leave under the family and medical leave program. | 7/10/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Parental; |
| MA | Senate | 1346 | Employee Parking Cash Out Option | Establishes an employee parking cash-out option. | 7/10/2025 | | Wage_Payment: Parking; Wage_and_Hour: Parking; |
| MA | House | 1810 | Construction Wage Theft Private Attorney General | Relates to creating construction wage theft private attorney general actions. | 7/17/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Private_attorney_gen; Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_theft; Industry: Construction_service; |
| MA | House | 1916 | Employees Through a Private Right of Action | Protects employees through a private right of action. | 7/17/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Private_attorney_gen; Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; |
| MA | Senate | 1148 | Fair Treatment of Employees | Relates to the fair treatment of employees. | 7/17/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Cannabis; Prohibited_Practices: Marijuana; Workplace_Behavior: Cannabis; Workplace_Behavior: Drug_testing; Workplace_Behavior: Marijuana; |
| MA | Senate | 1172 | Sexual Harassment | Protects unpaid interns, volunteers, and independent contractors from sexual harassment and other forms of discrimination. | 7/17/2025 | | Employment_relations: Independent_contract; Employment_relations: Intern; Employment_relations: Volunteer; Prohibited_Practices: Sexual_harassment; |
| MA | Senate | 1718 | Programs to Prevent Workplace Violence | Requires health care employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence. | 7/21/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Policy_requirement; Employer_Obligations: Risk_assessment; Employer_Obligations: Workplace_violence; Industry: Health_care_facility; Leave_laws: Victim; |
| MA | House | 2655 | Protections for Health Care Employees | Relates to providing protections for health care employees who are victims of violence or assault and battery. | 7/24/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Training; Employer_Obligations: Workplace_violence; Industry: Health_care_facility; |
| MA | House | 4306 | Home Care | Improves home care. | 7/28/2025 | | Employment_relations: Home_care_worker; Industry: Hiring_agency; Industry: Home_care; |
| MA | Senate | 1294 | Employment Protections for Victims of Abusive Behavior | Relates to employment protections for victims of abusive behavior. | 8/7/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Accommodation; Employer_Obligations: Confidential_info; Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Policy_requirement; Employment_relations: New_employee; Prohibited_Practices: Domestic_violence Prohibited_Practices: Kidnapping Prohibited_Practices: Sexual_assault Prohibited_Practices: Stalking |
| MA | Senate | 1312 | Domestic Violence Victims Protections | Ensures domestic violence victims’ protections for all employees in the commonwealth. | 8/7/2025 | | Leave_laws: Domestic_violence; Leave_laws: Kidnapping; Leave_laws: Sexual_assault; Leave_laws: Stalking; |
| MA | Senate | 1327 | Organizing Rights | Protects labor relations and abolish barriers to organizing rights. | 8/7/2025 | | Agreements: Collective_bargainin; Labor_Law: Labor_law; |
| MA | Senate | 1335 | Against Abusive Waivers | Defends against abusive waivers. | 8/7/2025 | | Agreements: Employment; Agreements: Settlements; Agreements: Waiver_of_claims; Prohibited_Practices: Discrimination; Prohibited_Practices: Harassment; Prohibited_Practices: Retaliation |
| MA | Senate | 1378 | Employee Leave of Absence | Relates to employee leave of absence to appear in probate and family court. | 8/7/2025 | | Leave_laws: Court_appearance; Leave_laws: Unpaid_leave; |
| MA | House | 77 | Use of Artificial Intelligence | Regulates the use of artificial intelligence. | 8/28/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Electric_monitoring; Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Policy_requirement; Employer_Obligations: Posting_requirement; Employer_Obligations: Recordkeeping; Prohibited_Practices: Implant_device |
| MA | House | 2075 | Construction Industry Employers | Provides that certain construction industry employers provide occupational safety and health administration training to employees. | 9/4/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Training; Industry: Construction_service; Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; |
| MA | House | 2114 | Employment Contracts | Relates to employment contracts waiving certain substantive or procedural rights or remedies. | 9/4/2025 | | Agreements: Employment; Agreements: Waiver_of_claims; |
| MA | House | 2117 | Wages of Deceased Employees | Relates to wages of deceased employees. | 9/4/2025 | | Employment_relations: Deceased_employee; Wage_Payment: End_of_employment; |
| MA | House | 2119 | Use of Credit Reports by Employers | Relates to regulating the use of credit reports by employers. | 9/4/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Credit_history; Prohibited_Practices: Credit_reports; |
| MA | House | 2158 | Leaves of Absence of Employees to Appear Before Court | Relates to leaves of absence of employees to appear before the Probate and Family Court. | 9/4/2025 | | Leave_laws: Court_appearance; Leave_laws: Unpaid_leave; |
| MA | House | 4448 | OSHA Training | Relates to requiring OSHA training. | 9/4/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Training; Federal_Laws: OSHA; Industry: Construction_service; Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; |
| MA | House | 2946 | Enabling Employees on Unpaid Parental Leave | Relates to enabling employees on unpaid parental leave to purchase creditable service. | 9/8/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| MA | House | 4545 | Bone Marrow and Organ Donation | Includes bone marrow and organ donation in the paid family and medical leave program. | 9/24/2025 | | Leave_laws: Blood_donation; Leave_laws: Bone_marrow_donation; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Organ_donation; Leave_laws: Paid_leave |
| MA | House | 2091 | Verification of Employment Eligibility | Relates to the verification of employment eligibility of employees through the federal employment authorization e-verify program. | 9/25/2025 | | Employment_relations: E-verify; Employment_relations: Legal_work_status; |
| MA | House | 2108 | Agricultural Laborers | Relates to agricultural laborers. | 9/25/2025 | | Employment_relations: Agricultural_employe; Industry: Agriculture; |
| MA | House | 2127 | Notices Prior to Plant Closings or Layoffs | Requires certain notices prior to plant closings or layoffs. | 9/25/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Closed_business; Employment_relations: Mass_layoff; |
| MA | House | 2136 | Employers Under Paid Family Medical Leave | Relates to employers under paid family medical leave. | 9/25/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MA | House | 2156 | Hazard Pay and Protection for Essential Workers | Relates to providing hazard pay and protection for essential workers during a declared state of emergency. | 9/25/2025 | | Employment_relations: Essential_employees; Industry: Essential_employer; Prohibited_Practices: Refuse_work; Wage_and_Hour: Hazard_pay; |
| MA | House | 2166 | Overtime Pay | Relates to overtime pay and the salary threshold for overtime exemption. | 9/25/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Exempt_status; Wage_and_Hour: Exemptions; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| MA | House | 2175 | Youth Training Wage | Relates to a youth training wage. | 9/25/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Subminimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Youth_wage; |
| MA | House | 2190 | Employer Policies and Training to Prevent Harassment | Relates to employer policies and training to prevent unlawful harassment; includes sexual harassment. | 9/25/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Policy_requirement; Employer_Obligations: Training; Prohibited_Practices: Harassment; Prohibited_Practices: Sexual_harassment; |
| MA | Senate | 1295 | Workplace Free of All Forms of Unlawful Harassment | Relates to promote a workplace free of all forms of unlawful harassment. | 9/25/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Policy_requirement; Employer_Obligations: Training; Prohibited_Practices: Harassment; Prohibited_Practices: Sexual_harassment; |
| MA | Senate | 1314 | Youth Training Wage | Relates to a youth training wage. | 9/25/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Training_wage; |
| MA | Senate | 1317 | Suicide Prevention Signage | Relates to suicide prevention signage at construction site workplaces. | 9/25/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Suicide_prevention; Industry: Construction_service; |
| MA | Senate | 1322 | Essential Workers | Provides hazard pay and protection for essential workers during a “State of Emergency” declaration. | 9/25/2025 | | Employment_relations: Essential_employees; Industry: Essential_employer; Prohibited_Practices: Refuse_work; Wage_and_Hour: Hazard_pay; |
| MA | Senate | 1324 | Overtime Salary Thresholds | Relates to update overtime salary thresholds and codifying definitions to protect middle-class workers. | 9/25/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Exempt_status; Wage_and_Hour: Exemptions; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Overtime; |
| MA | Senate | 1375 | Employee Leave | Relates to employee leave. | 9/25/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MA | Senate | 1296 | Right to Time Off for Voting | Protects the right to time off for voting. | 10/2/2025 | | Leave_laws: Voting; |
| MA | Senate | 1316 | Workplace Bullying | Addresses workplace bullying, mobbing, and harassment, without regard to protected class status while promoting healthy workplaces. | 10/2/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Investigations; Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Policy_requirement; Employer_Obligations: Training; Employer_Obligations: Workplace_abuse; Employer_Obligations: Workplace_bullying |
| MA | Senate | 1344 | Transparency in Employee Benefits | Relates to transparency in employee benefits reporting in private construction. | 10/2/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Recordkeeping; Industry: Construction_service; |
| MA | Senate | 1347 | Workplace Psychological Safety | Ensures workplace psychological safety by deeming workplace bullying an unlawful practice. | 10/2/2025 | | Agreements: Non-disparagement; Employer_Obligations: Policy_requirement; Employer_Obligations: Workplace_bullying; |
| MA | Senate | 1351 | Family Medical Leave Law | Improves the Massachusetts paid family medical leave law. | 10/2/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MA | Senate | 1352 | Paid Family Medical Leave Law | Amends the Massachusetts paid family medical leave law definitions of a covered business entity and a covered contract worker. | 10/2/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MA | House | 2143 | Employment Protections for Victims of Abusive Behavior | Relates to employment protections for victims of abusive behavior. | 10/6/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Accommodation; Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Recordkeeping; Employment_relations: Current_employees; Employment_relations: Prospective_employee; Prohibited_Practices: Domestic_violence Prohibited_Practices: Kidnapping Prohibited_Practices: Sexual_assault Prohibited_Practices: Stalking |
| MA | House | 4450 | Credit Reports | Relates to the regulating the use of credit reports by employers. | 10/8/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Credit_reports; |
| MA | Senate | 35 | Electronic Monitoring Tools | Promotes employee physical and mental health and wellbeing by limiting the use of electronic monitoring tools. | 10/16/2025 | | Employee_obligation: Consent; Employer_Obligations: Electronic_monitor; Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Posting_requirement; Employer_Obligations: Recordkeeping; Employer_Obligations: Technology Employment_relations: Hiring Prohibited_Practices: Implant_device |
| MA | Senate | 521 | Constitutional Amendment | Supports ratification of Federal Child Labor Constitutional Amendment. | 10/16/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| MA | Senate | 2650 | Federal Child Labor Constitutional Amendment | Supports ratification of Federal Child Labor Constitutional Amendment. | 10/16/2025 | | |
| MA | House | 2094 | Wage Theft | Relates to wage theft, employer accountability, and public enforcement. | 10/20/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Joint_liability; Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_theft; Industry: General_contractor; Industry: Subcontractor; |
| MA | House | 2095 | Non Disclosure Agreements | Relates to non-disclosure agreements relating to a claim of discrimination, non-payment of wages or benefits, retaliation, harassment or violation of public policy in employment. | 10/20/2025 | | Agreements: Non-disclosure; Agreements: Waiver_of_claims; |
| MA | House | 2162 | Prevailing Wage Laws for Offsite Fabrication | Relates to compliance with prevailing wage Laws for offsite fabrication. | 10/20/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Prevailing_wage; |
| MA | Senate | 1300 | Wage Theft | Prevents wage theft, promote employer accountability, and enhance public enforcement. | 10/20/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Joint_liability; Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_theft; Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Terms_and_conditions; Employment_relations: New_employee |
| MA | Senate | 1318 | Prevailing Wage Laws | Relates to compliance with the prevailing wage laws of the Commonwealth. | 10/20/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Prevailing_wage; |
| MA | Senate | 1332 | Dismissed Employees Wages | Clarifies the process for paying the wages of dismissed employees. | 10/20/2025 | | Wage_Payment: Final_payment; |
| MA | Senate | 1377 | Wage Theft and Due Process | Relates to wage theft and due process. | 10/20/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_theft; |
| MA | S | 1314 | Youth Training Wage | Relates to a youth training wage. | 12/8/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Training_wage; |
| MA | S | 1322 | Essential Workers | Provides hazard pay and protection for essential workers during a “State of Emergency” declaration. | 12/11/2025 | | Employment_relations: Essential_employees; Industry: Essential_employer; Prohibited_Practices: Refuse_work; Wage_and_Hour: Hazard_pay; |
| MA | S | 1324 | Overtime Salary Thresholds | Relates to update overtime salary thresholds and codifying definitions to protect middle-class workers. | 12/11/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Exempt_status; Wage_and_Hour: Exemptions; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Overtime; |
| MA | S | 1375 | Employee Leave | Relates to employee leave. | 12/11/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MA | S | 1377 | Wage Theft and Due Process | Relates to wage theft and due process. | 12/11/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_theft; |
| MA | S | 1172 | Sexual Harassment | Protects unpaid interns, volunteers, and independent contractors from sexual harassment and other forms of discrimination. | 12/18/2025 | | Employment_relations: Independent_contract; Employment_relations: Intern; Employment_relations: Volunteer; Prohibited_Practices: Sexual_harassment; |
| MA | S | 1229 | Construction Private Attorney General Actions | Protects honest employers by creating construction private attorney general actions. | 12/18/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Private_attorney_gen; Industry: Construction_service; |
| MA | S | 1287 | Bereavement Leave | Ensures bereavement leave. | 12/18/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bereavement; |
| MA | S | 1290 | Collective Bargaining Right | Relates to collective bargaining right. | 12/18/2025 | | |
| MA | S | 1295 | Workplace Free of All Forms of Unlawful Harassment | Relates to promote a workplace free of all forms of unlawful harassment. | 12/18/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Policy_requirement; Employer_Obligations: Training; Prohibited_Practices: Harassment; Prohibited_Practices: Sexual_harassment; |
| MA | S | 1300 | Wage Theft | Prevents wage theft, promote employer accountability, and enhance public enforcement. | 12/18/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Joint_liability; Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_theft; Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Terms_and_conditions; Employment_relations: New_employee |
| MA | S | 1304 | Infant Friendly Workplaces | Promotes infant friendly workplaces by allowing guardians to bring infants aged six weeks to six months to the workplace. | 12/18/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Accommodation; Employer_Obligations: Infant_in_workplace; |
| MA | S | 1308 | Wage Law and Remote Workforce | Relates to the wage law and remote workforce. | 12/18/2025 | | Agreements: Employment; Agreements: Hiring; Agreements: Jurisdiction; Employment_relations: Remote_employee; |
| MA | S | 1310 | Injured Workers | Protects injured workers. | 12/18/2025 | | Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: Injury; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; |
| MA | S | 1317 | Suicide Prevention Signage | Relates to suicide prevention signage at construction site workplaces. | 12/18/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Suicide_prevention; Industry: Construction_service; |
| MA | S | 1318 | Prevailing Wage Laws | Relates to compliance with the prevailing wage laws of the Commonwealth. | 12/18/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Prevailing_wage; |
| MA | S | 1332 | Dismissed Employees Wages | Clarifies the process for paying the wages of dismissed employees. | 12/18/2025 | | Wage_Payment: Final_payment; |
| MA | S | 1346 | Employee Parking Cash Out Option | Establishes an employee parking cash-out option. | 12/18/2025 | | Wage_Payment: Parking; Wage_and_Hour: Parking; |
| MA | H | 2083 | Family and Medical Leave | Relates to family and medical leave. | 12/22/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; |
| MA | H | 2109 | Paid Family Medical Leave | Relates to the definitions of covered business entities and covered contract workers under paid family medical leave. | 12/22/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MA | H | 2110 | Paid Family Medical Leave | Relates to paid family medical leave. | 12/22/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MA | H | 2155 | Self Certification of Family or Medical Leave Benefits | Provides for the self-certification of family or medical leave benefits for small businesses. | 12/22/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; |
| MA | S | 1342 | Railroad Workers Earned Sick Time | Provides railroad workers’ earned sick time. | 12/22/2025 | | Industry: Railroad; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| MA | S | 1374 | Mandated Use of Paid Time Off | Relates to mandated use of paid time off for quarantine purposes. | 12/22/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Quarantine; |
| MA | H | 77 | Use of Artificial Intelligence | Regulates the use of artificial intelligence. | 12/24/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Electric_monitoring; Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Policy_requirement; Employer_Obligations: Posting_requirement; Employer_Obligations: Recordkeeping; Prohibited_Practices: Implant_device |
| MA | S | 466 | Protection of Vulnerable Elders From Abuse | Protects vulnerable elders from abuse. | 12/31/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Elder_abuse; Prohibited_Practices: Retaliation; Prohibited_Practices: Whistleblower; |
| MD | Senate | 124 | Payment Of Wages And Payroll Information | Requires governmental units that employ firefighters to compute overtime pay for each hour over 168 hours that a firefighter works during a 28-day work period; requires an employer to include all regularly scheduled hours, regardless of whether earned or accrued leave was use; requires counties and municipalities to provide certain payroll information to each employed firefighter; authorizes a firefighter or their exclusive representative to initiate a certain grievance under certain circumstances. | 1/9/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| MD | Senate | 58 | Parental School Engagement Leave | Requires certain employers to provide certain employees with at least 12 hours of parental school engagement leave each school year to attend meetings and conferences relating to the schooling of the employee’s child; requires the State Superintendent of Schools and the Commissioner of Labor to provide notice of certain provisions of the Act and develop and make available a document that may be used to validate an employee’s use of parental school engagement leave. | 1/14/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: School; |
| MD | Senate | 225 | Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program | Requires the Maryland Department of Labor to adopt regulations establishing an optional self-employed enrollment program governing the participation of self-employed individuals in the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program; repeals certain requirements related to the payment of contributions to the Program by participating self-employed individuals; excludes participating self-employed individuals from certain provisions of law governing the payment of benefits under the Program. | 1/14/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MD | SJR | 1 | Federal Child Labor Amendment | Ratifies the Federal Child Labor Amendment to the US Constitution, as proposed by US House Joint Resolution 184 of 1924, to provide the US Congress with the power to limit, regulate, and prohibit the labor of persons under the age of 18 years. | 1/14/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| MD | Senate | 355 | Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program | Alters, to a specified date, and to a specified date, the dates on which the payment of contributions and the submission of claims for benefits, respectively, are to begin under the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program. | 1/20/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MD | Senate | 658 | Noncompete and Conflict of Interest Provisions | Alters the noncompete and conflict of interest provisions in employment contracts or similar documents that are null and void as being against public policy. | 2/3/2025 | | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Non-compete; |
| MD | Senate | 139 | Legal and Employee Holiday | Establishes November 1 as Maryland Emancipation Day and as a State legal holiday and State employee holiday; repeals the requirement that the Governor declare a certain day as Maryland Emancipation Day. | 2/5/2025 | | Leave_laws: Emancipation_day; Leave_laws: Holidays; |
| MD | House | 211 | State Personnel Collective Bargaining | Concerns state personnel; relates to collective bargaining; relates to graduate assistants and postdoctoral associates. | 2/7/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| MD | House | 1261 | Employment Discrimination | Prohibits certain acts that have a discriminatory effect, regardless of the actor’s intent, in employment by any person; provides that a person who unintentionally violates a certain provision of law has not committed an unlawful employment practice if the violation was justified by a legitimate business necessity and there was no other less discriminatory means of accomplishing that business necessity. | 2/7/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Discrimination; |
| MD | House | 1400 | No Tax on Tips Act | Establishes consumer protections related to service fees charged by food service facilities; specifies the state minimum wage rate; prohibits, beginning a specified date, employers of tipped employees from including a tip credit amount as part of the employees’ wages; allows a subtraction under the state income tax for certain qualified tips received by certain individuals; allows a person a credit against the state income tax for certain amounts paid to an employee based on the payment. | 2/7/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Tip_credit; Wage_and_Hour: Tips; |
| MD | House | 1408 | Fire and Rescue Public Safety Employees | Prohibits an employer from taking certain discriminatory employment actions against a fire and rescue public safety employee based on the employee’s use of medical cannabis, subject to certain conditions. | 2/7/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| MD | House | 1476 | Employees Immigration Status Disclosure | Prohibits an employer from disclosing or threatening to disclose an employee’s immigration status to a public body for the purpose of concealing an employer’s violation of certain labor, benefit, or tax laws; authorizes the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to investigate a violation of the Act on the Commissioner’s own initiative or on receipt of a written complaint; authorizes an alleged violator to request an administrative hearing. | 2/7/2025 | | Employment_relations: Immigration_status; Prohibited_Practices: Immigration_status; |
| MD | House | 377 | Prince Georges County Parental Engagement Leave | Allows employers who provide certain parental engagement leave to certain qualified employees during the taxable year a credit against the State income tax; requires the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Comptroller, to develop and make available a certain certification form; establishes that the credit equals the qualified employees hourly wage rate times the number of parental leave hours used by the employee during the taxable year. | 2/10/2025 | | Leave_laws: School; Wage_and_Hour: Tax_credits; |
| MD | House | 1096 | Fraud Prevention and Worker Protections | Prohibits a person from knowingly making or using, or causing to be made or used, a false record or statement resulting in underpayments of unemployment insurance contributions or payment of unemployment insurance benefits of more than a certain amount; alters the enforcement mechanisms of the State Wage and Hour Law, the State Wage Payment and Collection Law, Workplace Fraud Laws, Living Wage Laws, and Prevailing Wage Laws. | 2/10/2025 | | Unemployment: Unemployment; |
| MD | House | 1491 | Wage Deductions for Public Employees | Applies to governmental employers’ certain provisions of the State Wage Payment and Collection Law that prohibit an employer from making deductions from the wage of an employee except for specified purposes; allows a governmental employer to make a deduction from a public employee’s wage if the deduction is authorized expressly in a compensation or benefit plan adopted by the employer. | 2/12/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| MD | Senate | 895 | Public Employee Wage Deductions | Applies to governmental employers certain provisions of the Maryland Wage Payment and Collection Law that prohibit an employer from making deductions from the wage of an employee except for specified purposes; allows a governmental employer to make a deduction from a public employee’s wage if the deduction is authorized expressly in a compensation or benefit plan adopted by the employer. | 2/15/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| MD | House | 582 | Overtime Pay Exemptions | Alters the exemption from overtime pay for individuals who are employed to work in an administrative, executive, or professional capacity. | 2/19/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Exempt_status; Wage_and_Hour: Exemptions; Wage_and_Hour: Overtime; |
| MD | House | 824 | Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program | Alters the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program to provide benefits, beginning a specified date, to alternatively qualified individuals who care for or bond with a child under certain circumstances; alters the date that the Secretary of Labor is required to begin conducting certain cost analyses of the Program; requires that an employer allow an alternatively qualified individual who is receiving benefits under the Program to take certain unpaid leave from employment. | 2/19/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MD | House | 1438 | Exemptions From Overtime Pay | Alters the exemption from overtime pay for individuals who are employed to work in an administrative, executive, or professional capacity; increases, except under certain circumstances, the exempted compensation rate in effect for certain periods of time based on the annual growth, if any, in the Consumer Price Index; requires the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, beginning a specified date, and each subsequent year, to determine and announce the new exempted compensation rate. | 2/20/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Exempt_status; Wage_and_Hour: Exemptions; Wage_and_Hour: Overtime; |
| MD | House | 914 | Paid Cancer Screening Leave | Provides that certain state employees are entitled to up to specified hours of paid cancer screening leave in any 12-month period after obtaining approval from their appointing authorities. | 2/21/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| MD | House | 921 | Colleague Bereavement Leave | Provides that, under certain circumstances, certain state employees are entitled to use up to specified days of colleague bereavement leave with pay immediately following the death of a colleague who is employed by the same agency as the employee; prohibits certain state entities from requiring state employees entitled to use colleague bereavement leave under the Act to use any other paid leave available to the employee. | 2/21/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| MD | House | 1413 | Right to Disconnect | Requires employers to establish a policy that provides employees a certain right to ignore communications from the employer during nonworking hours and establishes nonworking hours by written agreement; prohibits, except under certain circumstances, an employer from requiring that an employee communicate with the employer during nonworking hours. | 2/25/2025 | | Hours_worked: Nonwork_hours; |
| MD | House | 1548 | Harassment and Intimidation Reporting | Establishes requirements related to the reporting of incidents of employee harassment and intimidation, including provisions regarding the reporting of incidents by employers to the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, the creation of a reporting form, and the establishment of an electronic tip program; establishes that certain information shared in the reporting of incidents of employee harassment or intimidation is confidential. | 2/25/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Mandatory_reporting; Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Workplace_abuse; Employer_Obligations: Workplace_bullying; |
| MD | House | 233 | Worker Freedom Act | Concerns labor and employment; relates to mandatory meetings on religious or political matters; relates to employee attendance and participation; relates to the Maryland Worker Freedom Act. | 2/26/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Political_matters; Prohibited_Practices: Refuse_conditions; Prohibited_Practices: Religious_matters; |
| MD | House | 1288 | Noncompete and Conflict of Interest Provisions | Alters the noncompete and conflict of interest provisions in employment contracts or similar documents that are null and void as being against public policy. | 2/26/2025 | | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Non-compete; |
| MD | House | 1340 | Unpaid Parental Leave | Alters the definition of employer to exclude employers who are covered by the federal Family and Medical Leave Act for the current year from being required to provide to employees a certain unpaid parental leave benefit in the State. | 2/26/2025 | | Federal_Laws: FMLA; Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Parental; |
| MD | Senate | 576 | Worker Freedom Act | Prohibits employers from taking certain adverse actions against an employee or applicant for employment because the employee or applicant declines to attend or participate in employer-sponsored meetings during which the employer communicates the opinion of the employer regarding religious matters or political matters. | 3/4/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Political_matters; Prohibited_Practices: Religious_matters; |
| MD | House | 1455 | Average Weekly Wage | Requires that the average weekly wages from employments of a covered employee who, at the time of an accidental personal injury, was concurrently employed by more than one employer be combined for purposes of computing the average weekly wages under certain circumstances; requires that the Subsequent Injury Fund or the Uninsured Employers’ Fund reimburse an employer for certain compensation paid by the employer. | 3/5/2025 | | Workers_Comp: Workers_comp; |
| MD | House | 667 | Emancipation Day | Establishes specified date as State Emancipation Day and as a state legal holiday and state employee holiday; repeals the requirement that the Governor declare a certain day as State Emancipation Day. | 3/13/2025 | | Leave_laws: Emancipation_day; Leave_laws: Holidays; |
| MD | House | 205 | Firefighters Employment Standards | Concerns employment standards; relates to firefighters; relates to payment of wages and payroll information. | 3/17/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| MD | Senate | 1023 | Employment Discrimination | Prohibits an employer from taking certain discriminatory employment actions against a fire and rescue public safety employee based on the employee’s use of medical cannabis, subject to certain conditions. | 3/17/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| MD | Senate | 523 | Cancer Screening Paid Leave | Provides that certain state employees are entitled to up to 4 hours of paid cancer screening leave in any 12-month period after obtaining approval from their appointing authorities. | 3/19/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| MD | House | 905 | Safe Staffing Act of 2025 | Requires certain hospitals licensed in the State to establish and maintain a clinical staffing committee and to implement a clinical staffing plan; requires each clinical staffing committee to develop a clinical staffing plan; requires by a specific day each year, each hospital, through the clinical staffing committee, to conduct a review of the clinical staffing plan for certain purposes; requires by a specified date each hospital to implement a clinical staffing plan. | 4/4/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Committee; Employer_Obligations: Policy_requirement; Employment_relations: Staffing; Industry: Hospitals; |
| MD | House | 102 | Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program | Defines anchor date to establish certain reference points for the calculation of a certain covered employee’s average weekly wage and eligibility for increases in weekly benefits under the Family Medical Leave and Insurance Program; alters certain dates related to annual reporting and the implementation of the Program; alters the frequency with which subsequent payments are to be made; authorizes the Secretary to announce each employer of, a certain increase the maximum weekly benefit amount. | 5/6/2025 | 06/01/2025 | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MD | Senate | 785 | Unpaid Parental Leave | Alters the definition of employer to exclude employers who are covered by the federal Family and Medical Leave Act for the current year from being required to provide to employees a certain unpaid parental leave benefit in the State. | 5/6/2025 | 10/01/2025 | Federal_Laws: FMLA; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; |
| MD | House | 1 | Human Trafficking Awareness, Training and Response | Requires the Maryland Department of Transportation to develop or identify and implement a certain training program for certain transportation-sector employees on the identification and reporting of suspected human trafficking victims; requires certain transportation sector employers to certify that certain employees have completed the training program. | 5/13/2025 | 10/01/2025 | Employer_Obligations: Human_trafficking; Employer_Obligations: Policy_requirement; Employer_Obligations: Training; Industry: Govt_contractor; Industry: Transportation; |
| ME | House | 606 | Employers To Disclose Wage Ranges in Job Postings | Requires employers to disclose wage ranges in job postings. | 4/8/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Wage-range; Employment_relations: Job_advertisements; Employment_relations: Job_postings; |
| ME | Senate | 90 | Income Tax Credit for Employer Supported Child Care | Provides an income tax credit for employer supported child care. | 5/6/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_care; Wage_and_Hour: Tax_credits; |
| ME | Senate | 104 | Emergency Medical Services Persons | Protects emergency medical services persons right to work in multiple health care settings; provides that a person acting under delegated authority pursuant to a license to practice osteopathic medicine or a license to practice medicine or surgery may not use or be governed by certain licenses while acting under that delegated authority. | 5/13/2025 | 09/24/2025 (Updated) | Employment_relations: Emergency_med_worker; Industry: Health_care; Labor_Law: Right_to_work; |
| ME | Senate | 365 | Earned Paid Leave Exception | Expands the earned paid leave exception. | 5/13/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Paid_time_off; |
| ME | House | 358 | Paid Family and Medical Leave Benefits Program | Repeals the paid family and medical leave benefits program. | 5/20/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| ME | House | 423 | Minimum Hourly Wage for Agricultural Workers | Establishes a state minimum hourly wage for agricultural workers. | 5/20/2025 | | Employment_relations: Agricultural_employe; Industry: Agriculture; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| ME | Senate | 143 | State Minimum Hourly Wage for Agricultural Workers | Establishes a state minimum hourly wage for agricultural workers. | 5/20/2025 | | Employment_relations: Agricultural_employe; Industry: Agriculture; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| ME | Senate | 256 | Equitable Access To the Paid Family and Medical Leave | Ensures equitable access to the paid family and medical leave benefits program by removing the requirement that leave must be scheduled to prevent undue hardship on the employer. | 5/20/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Undue_hardship; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| ME | House | 824 | Payment of Benefits Under the Paid Family | Delays payment of benefits under the paid family and medical leave benefits program. | 5/20/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| ME | House | 77 | Student Wages | Promotes opportunities by establishing a student wage. | 5/28/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Subminimum_wage; |
| ME | House | 260 | Paid Family and Medical Leave | Repeals the Laws providing for paid family and medical leave and to reimburse taxpayers. | 6/3/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| ME | Senate | 407 | Agricultural Employers | Exempts agricultural employers and employees from the state paid family and medical leave benefits program. | 6/3/2025 | | Employment_relations: Agricultural_employe; Industry: Agriculture; |
| ME | House | 848 | Paid Family and Medical Leave Voluntary | Makes paid family and medical leave voluntary. | 6/3/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| ME | House | 868 | Paid Family and Medical Leave Benefits Program | Makes changes to the paid family and medical leave benefits program. | 6/3/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| ME | Senate | 537 | Remittance Obligation for Paid Family and Medical Leave | Suspends the remittance obligation for paid family and medical leave private plan users. | 6/3/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| ME | House | 1147 | Paid Family and Medical Leave Benefits Program | Amends the paid family and medical leave benefits program to balance support of businesses and employees. | 6/4/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| ME | House | 774 | Employer Payments for the Paid Family and Medical Leave | Regards employer payments for the paid family and medical leave benefits program. | 6/5/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; |
| ME | House | 796 | Protect Paid Family and Medical Leave Benefits | Directs the Department of Labor to study methods to protect all revenues derived from taxes, fees, premiums, fines and penalties relating to the paid family and medical leave benefits program. | 6/10/2025 | 09/24/2025 (Updated) | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| ME | Senate | 273 | Agricultural Workers | Provides that, beginning of specified date, the minimum hourly wage for an individual employed to perform agricultural labor may not be paid at a rate less than the state minimum hourly wage; provides that, on specified date and each January 1st thereafter, the minimum hourly wage then in effect must be increased by the increase in the cost of living. | 6/10/2025 | 09/24/2025 (Updated) | Employment_relations: Agricultural_employe; Industry: Agriculture; Wage_and_Hour: Overtime; |
| ME | House | 645 | Employee From Storing a Firearm in Vehicle | Regards an employers authority to prohibit an employee from storing a firearm in the employees vehicle. | 6/12/2025 | | Workplace_Behavior: Firearm; |
| ME | Senate | 383 | Paid Family and Medical Leave | Provides that leave may be taken by an employee intermittently in increments equaling not less than one workday, unless a lesser increment is agreed to by the employee and the employer, except that the employee and employer may not agree to leave to be taken in increments of less than one hour. | 6/12/2025 | 09/24/2025 (Updated) | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| ME | House | 941 | Maine Human Rights Act | Removes consideration of gender identity from the State Human Rights Act. | 6/13/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Gender_identity; |
| ME | House | 351 | Health Care Workers | Protects health care workers by addressing assaults in health care settings. | 6/18/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Criminal_action; Employer_Obligations: Workplace_violence; Employment_relations: Health_care_worker; |
| ME | Senate | 272 | Agricultural Employees Concerted Activity Protection | Enacts the agricultural employees concerted activity protection act. | 6/18/2025 | | Agreements: Collective_bargainin; Employment_relations: Agricultural_employe; Industry: Agriculture; |
| ME | House | 677 | Whistleblower Protections | Requires certain notice requirements for whistleblower protections; provides that a public utility and a competitive electricity provider shall send an annual notice of the rights, which must be written in plain English, be in at least 12-point type and be sent separately from any other communication, to persons at the time of the notice performing a service for wages or other remuneration under a contract of hire, expressed or implied, for the public utility or competitive electricity provider. | 6/22/2025 | 09/24/2025 (Updated) | Industry: Utility; Prohibited_Practices: Whistleblower; |
| ME | Senate | 282 | Minimum Pay for Reporting To Work | Requires minimum pay for reporting to work; provides that on any day an employee reports to work at the request of an employer and the employer cancels or reduces the number of hours in an employee’s scheduled shift, the employee must be paid the lesser of two hours of pay at the employee’s regular hourly rate of pay, and the total pay for the shift for which the employee was initially scheduled. | 6/24/2025 | 09/24/2025 (Updated) | Hours_worked: Reporting_time; Hours_worked: Show_up_time; Wage_and_Hour: Reporting_pay; Wage_and_Hour: Show_up_pay; |
| ME | House | 18 | Employee Pay Histories | Requires employers to disclose pay ranges and maintain records of employees pay histories. | 6/25/2025 | | Employee_obligation: Request; Employer_Obligations: Wage-range; Employment_relations: Applicant; Employment_relations: Job_postings; |
| ME | House | 24 | Flexible Work Schedules | Allows employees to request flexible work schedules. | 6/25/2025 | | Employee_obligation: Request; Employer_Obligations: Flexible; Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employment_relations: Work_schedule; Prohibited_Practices: Retaliation; |
| ME | House | 506 | Gender Wage Gaps | Requires employers with at least one employee within the State and at least specified number of employees in the United States to annually report for a one-week period between October 1st and December 31st of the preceding year the number of male, female and nonbinary employees in the employer’s employ, the median hourly equivalent rates of pay of all male, female and nonbinary employees in the employer’s employ. | 6/25/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Reporting_required; Prohibited_Practices: Gender; Prohibited_Practices: Sex; |
| ME | Senate | 283 | Federal Salary Threshold for Overtime Pay | Codifies the federal salary threshold for overtime pay. | 6/25/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Exempt_status; Wage_and_Hour: Exemptions; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| ME | Senate | 692 | Domestic Workers | Protects domestic workers. | 6/25/2025 | | Employment_relations: Domestic_worker; Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; |
| MI | Senate | 6 | Employment Practices | Provides various employer requirements. | 1/8/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; Employment_relations: Employee; Employment_relations: Independent_contract; |
| MI | House | 4040 | Fair Employment Practices | Prohibits employers from requiring employees to enter into certain noncompete agreements unless certain conditions are met. | 1/30/2025 | | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Non-compete; |
| MI | House | 4001 | Labor Hour and Wages | Modifies labor hour and wages; relates to minimum hourly wage rate. | 2/4/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| MI | Senate | 49 | Occupational Health And Safety | Provides revisions to the occupational safety and health act. | 2/4/2025 | | Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; |
| MI | Senate | 15 | Benefits and Sick Time | Modifies earned sick time. | 2/11/2025 | | Leave_laws: Safe; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| MI | House | 4002 | Labor Benefits | Requires certain employers to provide certain employees with earned sick time that may be used for certain purposes; specifies the conditions for accruing and using earned sick time; provides that an employee of a small business must accrue a specified amount of paid earned sick time; provides that an employer shall not take retaliatory personnel action or discriminate against an employee for exercising certain rights; provides for employer civil liability, civil remedies, and civil fines for violations. | 2/21/2025 | 02/21/2025 | Leave_laws: Domestic_violence; Leave_laws: Emergency; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Safe; Leave_laws: Sexual_assault Leave_laws: Sick |
| MI | Senate | 8 | Minimum Wage | Specifies the minimum hourly wage rate for the specified years, with certain exceptions; provides that every October, beginning in the specified year, the State Treasurer shall calculate an adjusted minimum wage rate, and the adjustment must increase the minimum wage by the rate of inflation; provides that an employee must be paid the minimum hourly wage rate if, among other things, the employee receives gratuities in the course of the employees employment; provides civil actions for violations. | 2/21/2025 | 02/21/2025 | Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Tip_credit; Wage_and_Hour: Tips; |
| MI | House | 4168 | Offset of Wages | Prohibits employer offset of wages due an employee in a pay period based on the amount of gratuities the employee receives. | 3/5/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Gratuities; Wage_and_Hour: Tip_credit; Wage_and_Hour: Tips; |
| MI | House | 4253 | Accrued Leave | Requires an employer to pay to an employee certain types of accrued leave when employment is terminated. | 3/18/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Paid_time_off; Leave_laws: Vacation; Wage_Payment: Final_payment; Wage_and_Hour: Bonus; |
| MI | House | 4264 | Fair Employment Practices | Prohibits an employer from inquiring about job applicant’s credit history. | 3/18/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Application; Employment_relations: Applicant; Employment_relations: Hiring; Prohibited_Practices: Credit_history; Prohibited_Practices: Credit_reports; |
| MI | House | 4289 | Employment Practices | Requires certain employment discrimination information employers to post. | 3/25/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Posting_requirement; Prohibited_Practices: Discrimination; Prohibited_Practices: Equal_pay; |
| MI | House | 4293 | Employment Practices | Revises notice period for certain deductions from wages without written consent of employee related to garnishment. | 3/25/2025 | | Wage_Payment: Deductions; Wage_Payment: Garnishment; |
| MI | House | 4295 | Employment Practices | Provides requirements to obtain a fair paycheck workplace certificate. | 3/25/2025 | | Wage_Payment: Final_payment; |
| MI | House | 4297 | Employment Practices | Requires an employer to disclose to an employee wage information of similarly situated employees under certain circumstances. | 3/25/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Salary_history; Employer_Obligations: Wage_history; |
| MI | House | 4322 | Independent Contractors | Provides penalties and remedies for misclassification of independent contractors. | 4/16/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Misclassification; Employment_relations: Employee; Employment_relations: Independent_contract; |
| MI | House | 4323 | Whistleblower Protections | Modifies definition of employee and protected activities. | 4/16/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Retaliation; Prohibited_Practices: Whistleblower; |
| MI | House | 4326 | Whistleblower Protections | Modifies whistleblower protection to include employees reporting to the state employee ombudsman or the press. | 4/16/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Retaliation; Prohibited_Practices: Whistleblower; |
| MI | House | 4405 | Employment Security | Allows low-wage school employees to collect unemployment benefits during the summer months. | 4/29/2025 | | Unemployment: Unemployment; |
| MI | House | 4433 | Fair Employment Practices | Protects absence from work to respond to an emergency as an emergency responder from adverse employment action. | 5/6/2025 | | Employment_relations: First_responder; Leave_laws: First_responder; Leave_laws: Volunteer_responder; |
| MI | House | 4436 | Employment Discrimination | Prohibits an employer from taking an adverse employment action based on employee communication regarding an occupational safety and health practice or hazard related to a communicable disease. | 5/6/2025 | | Federal_Laws: OSHA; Prohibited_Practices: Retaliation; Prohibited_Practices: Whistleblower; |
| MI | House | 4438 | Employment Discrimination | Prohibits employer taking adverse employment action against an employee who raises concern over infection control. | 5/6/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Retaliation; Prohibited_Practices: Whistleblower; |
| MI | House | 4439 | Employment Discrimination | Prohibits an employer from taking an adverse employment action based on employee communication regarding an occupational safety and health practice or hazard. | 5/6/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Retaliation; Prohibited_Practices: Whistleblower; Prohibited_Practices: Working_conditions; |
| MI | House | 4441 | Youth Employment | Modifies penalties for certain violations of youth employment standards act. | 5/6/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| MI | House | 4442 | Youth Employment | Provides sentencing guidelines for crimes related to the employment of minors. | 5/6/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| MI | House | 4448 | Employment Termination | Requires cause for termination of employment. | 5/6/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Constructive_dischar; Claims_and_Penalties: Wrongful_discharge; Employment_relations: At-will; Employment_relations: Good_cause; Employment_relations: Just_cause; |
| MI | House | 4449 | Fair Employment Practices | Prohibits employment decisions based on the health or illness of an employee’s family member. | 5/6/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Family; |
| MI | House | 4450 | Fair Employment Practices | Prohibits employers from discriminating based on certain physical characteristics of employees. | 5/6/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Appearance; Prohibited_Practices: Physical_characteris; |
| MI | House | 4451 | Permanent Replacement Employee | Prohibits employees from offering or granting to certain individuals who work for the employer during a labor dispute. | 5/6/2025 | | Employment_relations: Strike; |
| MI | House | 4453 | Fair Employment Practices | Prohibits employers from discriminating against employees who perform certain lawful activities during nonworking hours. | 5/6/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Nonworking_behavior; |
| MI | House | 4455 | Employment Practices | Creates worker freedom act. | 5/6/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Political_matters; Prohibited_Practices: Refuse_conditions; Prohibited_Practices: Religious_matters; |
| MI | House | 4456 | Employment Practices | Prohibits employer monitoring of employee communications unless the employer establishes an employee monitoring policy and discloses that policy to employees. | 5/6/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Electronic_monitor; Employer_Obligations: Monitoring; Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Policy_requirement; |
| MI | House | 4475 | Employment Discrimination | Prohibits discrimination based on certain vaccination status. | 5/8/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Vaccination_status; |
| MI | House | 4492 | Labor Hour and Wages | Allows an employer to require sharing gratuities with other employees. | 5/13/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Gratuities; Wage_and_Hour: Tip_sharing; Wage_and_Hour: Tips; |
| MI | Senate | 296 | Mandatory Overtime Prohibition | Prohibits mandatory overtime for nurses except under certain circumstances. | 5/13/2025 | | Employment_relations: Nurse; Employment_relations: Work_schedule; Hours_worked: Extended_rest_period; Hours_worked: On-call; Prohibited_Practices: Refuse_work; Wage_and_Hour: Overtime |
| MI | Senate | 301 | Paid Organ Donation Leave | Provides employer credit for paid organ donation leave. | 5/13/2025 | | Leave_laws: Organ_donation; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MI | S | 6 | Employment Practices | Provides various employer requirements. | 5/14/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; Employment_relations: Employee; Employment_relations: Independent_contract; |
| MI | Senate | 425 | Professional Employer Organizations | Clarifies application to professional employer organizations remission of new jobs credit from withholding to community college districts. | 6/17/2025 | | Industry: PEO; |
| MI | Senate | 436 | Right to Work | Restores right to work. | 6/24/2025 | | Labor_Law: Right_to_work; |
| MI | Senate | 437 | Right to Work | Restores right to work. | 6/24/2025 | | Labor_Law: Right_to_work; |
| MI | Senate | 439 | Minimum Wage Standard | Amends requirement for integrated resource plans to include payment to certain workers a minimum wage standard as determined under 2023 pa 10 to reflect repeal. | 6/24/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Prevailing_wage; |
| MI | Senate | 440 | Minimum Wage Standard | Amends requirement to pay certain workers a minimum wage standard as determined under 2023 pa 10 to reflect repeal. | 6/24/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Prevailing_wage; |
| MI | House | 4751 | Elliott Larsen Civil Rights Act | Removes sexual orientation and gender identity or expression as categories protected under the Elliott-Larsen civil rights act. | 7/29/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Gender_expression; Prohibited_Practices: Gender_identity; Prohibited_Practices: Sexual_orientation; |
| MI | House | 4762 | Youth Employment | Allows youth employment in residential building construction under certain conditions. | 8/13/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| MI | Senate | 496 | Youth Employment | Restores former provisions and modify penalties of youth employment standards act. | 8/13/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| MI | Senate | 497 | Youth Employment | Modifies sentencing guidelines for violation of the youth employment standards act. | 8/13/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| MI | House | 4777 | General Discrimination | Removes gender identity or expression from categories protected under Elliott-Larsen civil rights act. | 8/20/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Gender_expression; Prohibited_Practices: Gender_identity; |
| MI | H | 4492 | Labor Hour and Wages | Allows an employer to require sharing gratuities with other employees. | 12/11/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Gratuities; Wage_and_Hour: Tip_sharing; Wage_and_Hour: Tips; |
| MI | H | 5422 | Employment Benefits | Modifies permissible use for earned sick time. | 12/18/2025 | | Leave_laws: Safe; Leave_laws: Sick; Leave_laws: Victim; |
| MI | H | 5423 | Fair Employment Practices | Prohibits employers from discriminating against employees who are victims of certain crimes. | 12/18/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Accommodation; Employer_Obligations: Posting_requirement; Prohibited_Practices: Victim_status; |
| MN | Senate | 407 | Human Rights | Relates to human rights; prohibits discrimination based on political affiliation. | 1/21/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Political_affiliatio; |
| MN | Senate | 494 | Earned Sick and Safe Time | Relates to employment; modifies definition of employee for purposes of earned sick and safe time. | 1/23/2025 | | Leave_laws: Safe; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| MN | Senate | 691 | Employment of Unauthorized Individuals | Relates to employment; prohibits employment of unauthorized individuals. | 1/27/2025 | | Employment_relations: Hiring; Employment_relations: Legal_work_status; Employment_relations: Unauthorized; |
| MN | Senate | 947 | Earned Sick and Safe Time | Relates to employment; modifies the definition of employee for purposes of earned sick and safe time. | 2/3/2025 | | Leave_laws: Safe; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| MN | Senate | 310 | Definition of Employee | Relates to employment; modifies the definition of employee for purposes of earned sick and safe time. | 2/6/2025 | | Industry: Agriculture; Leave_laws: Safe; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| MN | House | 259 | Employment of Unauthorized Individuals | Relates to employment; prohibits employment of unauthorized individuals. | 2/10/2025 | | Employment_relations: Hiring; Employment_relations: Legal_work_status; |
| MN | House | 260 | Minnesota Paid Leave Law | Relates to employment; exempts small employers from the Minnesota Paid Leave Law until a specified date. | 2/10/2025 | | Employment_relations: Small_employer; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MN | House | 282 | Human Rights | Relates to human rights; prohibits discrimination based on political affiliation. | 2/10/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Political_affiliatio; |
| MN | Senate | 1229 | Youth Employment | Relates to youth employment; modifies requirements for 16- and 17-year-olds working in or around a construction or building project; authorizes rulemaking. | 2/10/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| MN | House | 758 | Employment Earned Sick and Safe Time | Relates to employment; modifies definition of employee for purposes of earned sick and safe time. | 2/13/2025 | | Leave_laws: Safe; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| MN | Senate | 475 | Whistleblower Protections for Public Employees | Provides that an employer shall not discharge, discipline, penalize, interfere with, threaten, restrain, coerce, retaliate or discriminate against an employee regarding compensation, terms, conditions, location, or privileges because a public employee, in good faith, reports fraud, waste, or abuse in programs of a State agency or political subdivision to the employer, any governmental body, law enforcement official, the Legislative Auditor, a member of the legislature, or a constitutional officer. | 2/13/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| MN | House | 1057 | Employment Earned Sick and Safe Time | Relates to employment; modifies the definition of employee for purposes of earned sick and safe time. | 2/17/2025 | | Industry: Small_employer; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Safe; |
| MN | House | 1241 | Minnesota Paid Leave Law | Relates to employment; repeals the Minnesota Paid Leave Law; returns unspent money in the family medical leave account to the general fund. | 2/20/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MN | House | 1263 | Paid Leave | Relates to paid leave; repeals the Minnesota Paid Leave Law; returns unspent money in the family medical leave account to the general fund. | 2/20/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MN | House | 1325 | Modifies Earned Sick and Safe Time | Relates to employment; modifies earned sick and safe time. | 2/20/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Safe; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| MN | Senate | 775 | Ombudsperson for Safety and Health of Food Workers | Relates to employment; establishes an ombudsperson for safety, health, and well-being of agricultural and food processing workers; requires reports; appropriates money. | 2/20/2025 | | Employment_relations: Agricultural_employe; Industry: Agriculture; Industry: Food_processor; |
| MN | Senate | 1771 | Minnesota Paid Leave Law | Relates to employment; repeals the Minnesota Paid Leave Law; returns unspent money in the family medical leave account to the general fund. | 2/24/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MN | Senate | 1793 | Minnesota Paid Leave Law | Relates to employment; exempts small employers from the Minnesota Paid Leave Law until January 1, 2028. | 2/24/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MN | Senate | 1849 | State Paid Leave Law | Relates to employment; exempts certain agricultural workers from the State Paid Leave Law. | 2/24/2025 | | Employment_relations: Agricultural_employe; Industry: Agriculture; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MN | House | 1523 | Minnesota Paid Leave Law | Relates to employment; exempts certain agricultural workers from the Minnesota Paid Leave Law. | 2/26/2025 | | Employment_relations: Agricultural_employe; Industry: Agriculture; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MN | House | 1542 | Participation in Earned Sick and Safe Time Benefits | Relates to employment; makes employer participation in earned sick and safe time benefits permissive. | 2/26/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Safe; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| MN | House | 1905 | Earned Sick and Safe Time Requirements | Relates to employment; exempts certain individuals working in positions regulated by the United States Department of Transportation from earned sick and safe time requirements. | 3/5/2025 | | Industry: Transportation; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Safe; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| MN | House | 1976 | Minnesota Paid Leave Law | Relates to employment; modifies the State Paid Leave Law. | 3/6/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MN | Senate | 2153 | Job Misclassification | Relates to employment; prohibits job misclassification. | 3/6/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Misclassification; Employment_relations: Independent_contract; |
| MN | Senate | 2277 | Paid Leave | Relates to paid leave; repeals the State Paid Leave Law; returns unspent money in the family medical leave account to the general fund. | 3/6/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MN | House | 11 | Minnesota Paid Leave Law | Relates to employment; delays the implementation of the Minnesota Paid Leave Law by one year. | 3/10/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MN | House | 2025 | Earned Sick and Safe Time Provisions | Relates to employment; modifies earned sick and safe time provisions. | 3/10/2025 | | Leave_laws: Safe; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| MN | House | 2113 | Requirement to Provide Paid Leave Exemption | Relates to employment; exempts small employers from the requirement to provide paid leave. | 3/10/2025 | | Industry: Small_employer; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MN | House | 2269 | Minnesota Paid Leave law | Relates to employment; delays penalties on employers for failure to notify employees about the Minnesota Paid Leave Law. | 3/12/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MN | House | 23 | Whistleblower Protections | Relates to employment; provides definitions; modifies whistleblower protections for public employees. | 3/13/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| MN | House | 1768 | Employment | Relates to employment; provides additional circumstances under which a covenant not to compete is valid and enforceable. | 3/13/2025 | | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Non-compete; |
| MN | House | 2325 | Overtime Pay on Holidays | Relates to labor; requires overtime pay on holidays. | 3/13/2025 | | Leave_laws: Holidays; Wage_and_Hour: Holiday_pay; Wage_and_Hour: Overtime; |
| MN | Senate | 2399 | Minnesota Paid Leave Law | Relates to employment; exempts small local government employers from the Minnesota Paid Leave Law. | 3/13/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MN | Senate | 2466 | Minnesota Paid Leave Law | Relates to employment; modifies the Minnesota Paid Leave Law. | 3/13/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MN | Senate | 2529 | Minnesota Paid Leave Law | Relates to employment; delays the implementation of the State Paid Leave Law by one year. | 3/13/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MN | Senate | 2532 | Overtime Pay on Holidays | Relates to labor; requires overtime pay on holidays. | 3/13/2025 | | Leave_laws: Holidays; Wage_and_Hour: Holiday_pay; |
| MN | Senate | 2533 | Employment Stay-or-Pay Provisions Prohibited | Relates to employment; provides that stay-or-pay provisions are prohibited, unenforceable, and against public policy. | 3/13/2025 | | Agreements: Employment; Agreements: Hiring; Agreements: Repayment; Agreements: Stay-or-pay; |
| MN | Senate | 2572 | Earned Sick and Safe Time Benefits | Relates to employment; makes employer participation in earned sick and safe time benefits permissive. | 3/17/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Safe; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| MN | Senate | 2586 | Earned Sick and Safe Time | Relates to employment; modifies the definition of employee for purposes of earned sick and safe time to exclude townships. | 3/17/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Safe; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| MN | Senate | 2605 | Earned Sick and Safe Time | Relates to employment; modifies earned sick and safe time. | 3/17/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Safe; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| MN | House | 2567 | Employment Stay-or-Pay Provisions | Relates to employment; provides that stay-or-pay provisions are prohibited, unenforceable, and against public policy. | 3/20/2025 | | Agreements: Employment; Agreements: Stay-or-pay; |
| MN | House | 2650 | Earned Sick and Safe Time Benefits | Relates to labor; allows the cost of earned sick and safe time benefits to be included in the prevailing wage calculation under certain conditions. | 3/24/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Prevailing_wage; |
| MN | Senate | 3141 | Economic Development | Relates to economic development; modifies the paid leave program. | 4/1/2025 | | Employment_relations: Small_employer; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MN | Senate | 3153 | Child Labor Amendment | Memorializes Congress that the Legislature of the State reaffirms its ratification of the Child Labor Amendment to the United States Constitution. | 4/1/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| MN | House | 2990 | Mandatory Break Laws | Relates to employees; modifies mandatory break Laws. | 4/2/2025 | | Hours_worked: Rest_break; |
| MN | Senate | 3224 | Earned Sick and Safe Time Requirements | Relates to employment; exempts certain individuals working in positions regulated by the United States Department of Transportation from earned sick and safe time requirements. | 4/2/2025 | | Industry: Transportation; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Safe; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| MN | House | 3111 | Earned Sick and Safe Time Requirements | Relates to employees; provides an exemption from earned sick and safe time requirements. | 4/3/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Safe; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| MN | Senate | 3288 | Employment Covenant Not to Compete | Relates to employment; provides additional circumstances under which a covenant not to compete is valid and enforceable. | 4/3/2025 | | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Non-compete; |
| MN | House | 1671 | Labor and Industry | Relates to labor and industry; makes policy and technical changes. | 4/7/2025 | | Employment_relations: Disabled_employee; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Subminimum_wage; |
| MN | Senate | 1346 | Occupational Safety | Relates to occupational safety; requires holders of permits to harvest or destroy aquatic plants to safely use scuba diving equipment; establishes requirements for commercial diving operations; provides that the applicant must provide documentation to the commissioner verifying that a third-party on-site hazard survey was completed in the last year by a qualified safety professional who observed the applicant’s work using scuba diving equipment. | 4/9/2025 | | Workplace_Behavior: Safety; |
| MN | Senate | 2149 | Labor and Industry | Relates to labor and industry; makes policy and technical changes. | 4/10/2025 | | Employment_relations: Disabled_employee; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Subminimum_wage; |
| MN | Senate | 3433 | Minnesota Paid Leave law | Relates to employment; provides a religious order exemption from the Minnesota Paid Leave Law; provides that a duly ordained or licensed minister of a church in the exercise of a ministry or a member of a religious order in the exercise of duties required by the order. | 4/24/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MN | House | 1355 | Brady Aune and Joseph Anderson Safety Act | Establishes requirements for commercial diving; requires, to receive a commercial mechanical control permit, applicants to inform the Commissioner of Natural Resources if scuba diving equipment will be used and provide documentation that a survey was completed by a safety professional, including a Department of Labor and Industry workplace safety and health consultant; provides for first aid and CPR training; requires certain permit holders to harvest or destroy aquatic plants to safely use such equipment. | 5/1/2025 | 05/02/2025, 10/01/2025 | Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; |
| MN | Senate | 2300 | Earned Sick and Safe Time | Prohibits requiring as a condition of using earned sick and safe time that a the employee find a replacement worker; provides that if an employer makes available paid time off or other paid leave in excess of the specified minimum amount required for absences from work due to personal illness or injury, an employer may limit the application of the specified minimum standards and requirements to no less than the available leave or a specified number of hours in a certain period, whichever is less. | 5/6/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Safe; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| MN | Senate | 3407 | Workers Compensation | Relates to workers’ compensation; adopts recommendations from the Workers’ Compensation Advisory Council; provides that the commissioner, upon application of a project sponsor or general contractor, shall approve or disapprove owner- and contractor-controlled insurance programs within specified number of days. | 5/13/2025 | | Workers_Comp: Workers_comp; |
| MO | Senate | 121 | Right-to-Work County Option | Creates a county option to enact Right-to-Work laws. | 1/23/2025 | | Labor_Law: Right_to_work; |
| MO | Senate | 89 | Veterans Day Shall Be a Public Holiday for All Employee | Provides that Veterans Day shall be a public holiday for all employees of the University of Missouri System. | 2/11/2025 | | Leave_laws: Holidays; |
| MO | Senate | 325 | Local Ordinances Employment Law | Preempts certain local ordinances with respect to employment law. | 2/13/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Background_checks; Employer_Obligations: Criminal_history; Government: Local_authority; Hours_worked: Working_time; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| MO | Senate | 334 | Local Ordinances and Employment Benefits | Preempts local ordinances mandating the provision of certain employment benefits. | 2/17/2025 | | Government: Local_authority; |
| MO | Senate | 373 | Wage Range Inquiries by Employees | Enacts new law relating to wage range inquiries by employees and prospective employees. | 2/17/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Wage-range; Employment_relations: Current_employees; Employment_relations: Promotion; Employment_relations: Prospective_employee; Employment_relations: Transfer; |
| MO | Senate | 383 | Covenants and Involving Physicians | Creates provisions relating to covenants not to compete involving physicians. | 2/17/2025 | | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Non-compete; Employment_relations: Physician; |
| MO | Senate | 443 | Civil Liability for Employers Hiring Ex-Offenders Act | Establishes the Civil Liability for Employers Hiring Ex-Offenders Act, which provides liability protections for employers hiring those convicted of certain offenses. | 2/17/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Immunity; Claims_and_Penalties: Negligent_hiring; Claims_and_Penalties: Vicarious_liability; Employment_relations: Convicted_employee; Employment_relations: Hiring; |
| MO | House | 555 | Employee Compensation and Wage Provision Modifications | Modifies provisions relating to employee compensation, delaying certain minimum wage increases, modifying paid sick leave hours, and adjusting the project cost amount required for prevailing wage rate compliance. | 2/19/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Sick; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Prevailing_wage; |
| MO | House | 546 | Entrepreneur Rights Act Establishment | Establishes the “Entrepreneur Rights Act”, exempting certain businesses from minimum wage increases and paid sick leave provisions. | 2/27/2025 | | Industry: Seasonal_business; Industry: Small_employer; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| MO | House | 758 | Employee Compensation | Modifies provisions; relates to employee compensation; repeals the minimum wage cost of living adjustment; modifies paid sick leave provisions. | 2/27/2025 | | Leave_laws: Safe; Leave_laws: Sick; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Subminimum_wage; |
| MO | House | 958 | Minimum Wage and Overtime Compensation | Authorizes exemptions from minimum wage and overtime compensation requirements for certain employees. | 2/27/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Subminimum_wage; |
| MO | Senate | 532 | Minimum Wage Rates Paid to Minor Employees | Modifies minimum wage rates paid to minor employees. | 2/27/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| MO | Senate | 554 | Biometric Information Privacy Act | Establishes the Biometric Information Privacy Act, which establishes requirements for and a cause of action against private entities in possession of biometric information. | 2/27/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Biometric_info; Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Privacy; |
| MO | Senate | 608 | Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation | Prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. | 3/13/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Gender_identity; Prohibited_Practices: Sexual_orientation; Prohibited_Practices: Veteran_status; |
| MO | House | 155 | Firefighters Procedural Bill of Rights Act | Establishes the Firefighters’ Procedural Bill of Rights Act. | 3/19/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| MO | Senate | 655 | Abuse and Neglect Reporting | Modifies provisions relating to abuse and neglect reporting, including a requirement to report companion animal abuse. | 3/24/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Mandatory_reporting; |
| MO | Senate | 703 | New Exemption From the Earned Paid Sick Time Law | Creates a new exemption from the earned paid sick time law. | 3/24/2025 | | Leave_laws: Sick; |
| MO | Senate | 732 | Unlawful Discriminatory Practice | Modifies provisions relating to unlawful discriminatory practices. | 3/24/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Gender_identity; Prohibited_Practices: Hairstyles; Prohibited_Practices: Race; Prohibited_Practices: Sexual_orientation; Prohibited_Practices: Veteran_status; |
| MO | House | 39 | Employer From Terminating an Employee for Having a Fire | Prohibits an employer from terminating an employee for having a firearm in the employee’s vehicle on the employer’s premises. | 3/25/2025 | | Workplace_Behavior: Firearm; |
| MO | Senate | 750 | Bereavement Leave | Creates new provisions establishing bereavement leave. | 3/27/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bereavement; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MO | Senate | 751 | Leave From Employment | Creates new provisions relating to leave from employment. | 3/27/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Military; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Parental |
| MO | Senate | 758 | Liability of Employers | Modifies the liability of employers. | 3/27/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Civil_action; Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; |
| MO | House | 706 | Child Labor Laws | Modifies provisions of child labor Laws and provides additional employment requirements for children engaged in online content creation or vlogging. | 4/2/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| MO | House | 832 | Provisions of Child Labor Laws | Modifies provisions of child labor Laws and provides additional employment requirements for children engaged in online content creation or vlogging. | 4/2/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| MO | House | 337 | Holiday Leave From Work for Alternative Work Schedules | Modifies provisions relating to holiday leave from work for alternative work schedules. | 4/8/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| MO | House | 1058 | Discriminatory Employment and Housing based on Medical | Establishes provisions relating to discriminatory employment practices and discriminatory housing practices based on a person’s private medical history or medical choices. | 4/9/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Medical_choices; Prohibited_Practices: Medical_history; |
| MO | House | 1245 | Child Labor Laws | Modifies provisions of child labor laws and provides additional employment requirements for children engaged in online content creation or vlogging. | 4/10/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| MO | Senate | 460 | Public School Background Checks | Modifies provisions relating to public school background checks. | 4/17/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| MO | House | 1414 | Earned Paid Sick Time | Creates a new exemption from the earned paid sick time law. | 4/24/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| MO | House | 232 | Establish Cardiac Emergency Response Plans | Requires schools to establish cardiac emergency response plans. | 4/29/2025 | | Schools: Schools; |
| MO | House | 120 | Employment and Creates New Requirements | Modifies provisions relating to employment and creates new requirements relating to the verification of the immigration status of certain persons. | 5/15/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: E-verify; Employment_relations: Legal_work_status; |
| MO | House | 215 | Child Care Contribution Tax Credit Act the Employer | Authorizes the Child Care Contribution Tax Credit Act, the Employer-Provided Child Care Assistance Tax Credit Act, and the Child Care Providers Tax Credit, relating to tax credits for child care. | 5/15/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_care; Wage_and_Hour: Tax_credits; |
| MO | House | 223 | Income Tax Deduction for Employers | Authorizes an income tax deduction for employers who provide pay regular wages to employees serving jury duty. | 5/15/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Tax_credits; |
| MO | House | 403 | Mandatory Severance for Employee Layoffs | Provides for mandatory severance for employees terminated in certain layoffs. | 5/15/2025 | | Agreements: Severance; Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employment_relations: Mass_layoff; Employment_relations: Relocation; |
| MO | House | 407 | Biometric Information Privacy Act | Establishes the Biometric Information Privacy Act. | 5/15/2025 | | Employee_obligation: Consent; Employer_Obligations: Biometric_info; Employer_Obligations: Notice; |
| MO | House | 441 | Meal Periods and Breaks | Requires employers to provide meal periods or meal breaks to employees. | 5/15/2025 | | Hours_worked: Meal_break; Hours_worked: Rest_break; |
| MO | House | 448 | Noncompete Clauses in Physician Employment Contracts | Prohibits noncompete clauses in physician employment contracts. | 5/15/2025 | | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Non-compete; Employment_relations: Physician; |
| MO | House | 473 | Paid Family and Medical Leave | Requires private employers that provide paid family and medical leave to provide equivalent leave for adoption and fostering. | 5/15/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Parental; |
| MO | House | 500 | Biometric Information Privacy Act | Establishes the Biometric Information Privacy Act. | 5/15/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Biometric_info; Employer_Obligations: Policy_requirement; Employer_Obligations: Recordkeeping; |
| MO | House | 587 | Gender-Based Employment Discrimination Prohibition | Prohibits employers from engaging in certain forms of discrimination based on gender. | 5/15/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Equal_pay; Prohibited_Practices: Retaliation; Prohibited_Practices: Sex; |
| MO | House | 625 | Minimum Wage Exempting Employees Under 20 Years of Age | Modifies provisions relating to the minimum wage, exempting employees under 20 years of age from minimum wage increases. | 5/15/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| MO | House | 676 | Mental Health Leave for Employees | Creates provisions relating to mental health leave for employees. | 5/15/2025 | | Leave_laws: Mental_health; Leave_laws: Unpaid_leave; |
| MO | House | 715 | Paid Sick Leave and Minimum Wage Increases | Repeals provisions relating to paid sick leave and minimum wage increases; reinstates previous minimum wage provisions. | 5/15/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Safe; Leave_laws: Sick; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| MO | House | 722 | Sexually Oriented Businesses | Modifies provisions relating to sexually oriented businesses. | 5/15/2025 | | Industry: Sexual_oriented; |
| MO | House | 896 | Minimum Wage and Overtime Administrative Complaints | Modifies the minimum wage and overtime administrative complaint process, establishing additional requirements for employees filing certain employment complaints. | 5/15/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_theft; |
| MO | House | 913 | Physician Covenants Not to Compete | Creates provisions relating to covenants not to compete involving physicians. | 5/15/2025 | | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Non-compete; Employment_relations: Physician; Industry: Non-profit; |
| MO | House | 1326 | Covenants Not to Compete | Establishes standards in regards to covenants not to compete. | 5/15/2025 | | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Non-compete; |
| MO | House | 1407 | Reimburse Work-Related Internet Expenses | Establishes requirements for employers to reimburse work-related internet expenses of certain employees engaged in remote and hybrid work. | 5/15/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Hybrid_employee; Employer_Obligations: Internet_expenses; Employment_relations: Remote_employee; Wage_Payment: Reimbursement; |
| MO | House | 1436 | Paid Leave for Parents | Establishes a program for providing paid leave for parents working in a child’s school and authorizes a tax credit for fifty percent of the hourly wage paid to a participant in the program. | 5/15/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: School; Wage_and_Hour: Tax_credits; |
| MO | House | 1460 | Discrimination on Sexual Orientation Gender Identity | Prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, or veteran status. | 5/15/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Gender_identity; Prohibited_Practices: Sexual_orientation; Prohibited_Practices: Veteran_status; |
| MO | House | 1563 | Earned Family and Medical Leave Act | Creates the State Earned Family and Medical Leave Act. | 5/15/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Military; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Parental; |
| MO | House | 1577 | Paid Sick Leave and Minimum Wage Increases | Repeals provisions relating to paid sick leave and minimum wage increases and reinstates previous minimum wage provisions. | 5/15/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Sick; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| MO | House | 567 | Employee Compensation | Modifies provisions relating to employee compensation; provides that the minimum wage shall be increased or decreased on January 1, 2008, and on January 1 of successive years but ending December 31, 2024, by the increase or decrease in the cost of living. | 7/11/2025 | 08/28/2025 | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| MS | House | 62 | Donald J. Trump Ban the Box Act | Creates the Donald J. Trump Ban the Box Act; provides for definitions; prohibits certain public employers from using criminal history information as a preliminary bar to employment; provides jurisdiction over complaints for violations. | 2/4/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| MS | House | 215 | Essential Health Care Workers Hazard Pay | Creates a hazard pay for essential health care workers grant program, to be administered by the State Department of Health, to provide $1,500 in premium pay for essential health care workers who perform jobs in public settings at heightened risk of exposure to covid 19; defines certain terms; requires the Department to establish a procedure for employers of essential health care workers to apply for grant funds; requires the Department to submit an annual report on the program to the legislative budget. | 2/4/2025 | | Employment_relations: Essential_employees; Wage_and_Hour: Grants; Wage_and_Hour: Hazard_pay; |
| MS | House | 266 | Minimum Wage Law | Creates the State Minimum Wage Law; establishes the state minimum wage at ten dollars per hour; provides that employers with tipped employees are exempt from the requirement to pay the state minimum wage; establishes guidelines for employees entitled to overtime pay; provides for purposes of possible amendment. | 2/4/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Overtime; Wage_and_Hour: Tip_credit; Wage_and_Hour: Tips; |
| MS | House | 322 | CROWN Hair Act | Creates the Create a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural (CROWN) Hair Act; prohibits creation of workplace and school policies that discriminate on the basis of natural hairstyles; prohibits discrimination by an employer, school, school district or administrator engaged in commerce on the basis of hair texture; prohibits termination, reduction of work hours, or paying a reduced salary or wage or expulsion or dismissal based on hair texture. | 2/4/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Hairstyles; |
| MS | House | 361 | Mississippi Smoke Free Air Act of 2025 | Creates the Mississippi Smoke Free Air Act of 2025; expresses certain legislative findings regarding the effects of secondhand smoke and other risks of smoking; defines certain terms; prohibits smoking in enclosed public places and places of employment, in private clubs, in enclosed residential facilities and in certain outdoor public places and places of employment; authorizes persons to voluntarily designate areas within their control as smoke free places. | 2/4/2025 | | Workplace_Behavior: Smoking; |
| MS | House | 364 | Minimum Wage Law | Creates the State Minimum Wage Law; establishes the state minimum wage at specified amount per hour; provides that employers with tipped employees are exempt from the requirement to pay the state minimum wage; establishes guidelines for employees entitled to overtime pay; provides for purposes of possible amendment. | 2/4/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| MS | House | 365 | CROWN Hair Act | Creates the create a Respectful And Open Workplace for Natural (CROWN) Hair Act; prohibits creation of workplace and school policies that discriminate on the basis of natural hairstyles; prohibits discrimination by an employer, school, school district or administrator engaged in commerce on the basis of hair texture; prohibits termination, reduction of work hours, or paying a reduced salary or wage or expulsion or dismissal based on hair texture. | 2/4/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Hairstyles; |
| MS | House | 381 | CROWN Hair Act | Creates the Create A Respectful and Open Workplace For Natural (CROWN) Hair Act; prohibits creation of workplace and school policies that discriminate on the basis of natural hairstyles; prohibits discrimination by an employer, school, school district or administrator engaged in commerce on the basis of hair texture; prohibits termination, reduction of work hours, or paying a reduced salary or wage or expulsion or dismissal based on hair texture; provides the remedies for any person who is aggrieved. | 2/4/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Hairstyles; |
| MS | House | 477 | CROWN Act | Creates the Create a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural (CROWN) Hair Act; prohibits creation of workplace and school polices that discriminate on the basis of natural or protective hairstyles; prohibits discrimination by an employer, school, school district or administrator engaged in commerce on the basis of hair texture; prohibits termination, reduction of work hours, or paying a reduced salary or wage or expulsion or dismissal based on hair texture. | 2/4/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Discrimination; Prohibited_Practices: Hairstyles; |
| MS | House | 716 | Wage History | Defines wage history; provides how a person’s wage history may and may not be used while that person is an applicant for employment; provides penalties for those employers who violate the provisions related to wage history; provides that certain precedents shall not be considered mandatory authority for claims that are brought as a result of violations of the provisions related to wage history. | 2/4/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Application; Employer_Obligations: Salary_history; Employer_Obligations: Wage_history; Employment_relations: Applicant; |
| MS | House | 740 | Minimum Wage Law | Creates the State Minimum Wage Law; establishes the state minimum wage at $15.00 per hour; provides that employers with tipped employees are exempt from the requirement to pay the state minimum wage; establishes guidelines for employees entitled to overtime pay; provides for purposes of possible amendment. | 2/4/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Overtime; Wage_and_Hour: Tip_credit; Wage_and_Hour: Tips; |
| MS | House | 771 | State Employees Drug Test | Requires all prospective employees to pass a drug test as a condition of being employed by the State; requires the State Personnel Board to adopt rules and regulations governing the drug testing of prospective State employees. | 2/4/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| MS | House | 866 | Major Medical Leave | Defines certain terms for the purpose of the leave laws for State employees; expands the authorized purposes for the use of major medical leave by State employees. | 2/4/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| MS | House | 898 | Minimum Wage Law | Creates the State Minimum Wage Law; establishes the state minimum wage at specified amount per hour; provides that employers with tipped employees are exempt from the requirement to pay the state minimum wage; establishes guidelines for employees entitled to overtime pay; provides for purposes of possible amendment. | 2/4/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Tip_credit; Wage_and_Hour: Tips; |
| MS | House | 1047 | Paid Family and Medical Leave Act | Establishes the State Paid Family and Medical Leave Act; provides certain applicable definitions; requires the State Department of Employment Security establish and administer a family and medical leave insurance program; provides covered individuals with the right to paid family and medical leave; determines the amount of family and medical leave insurance benefits for covered individuals; creates the family and medical leave insurance fund in the State Treasury; provides for the determination. | 2/4/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Exigency; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| MS | House | 1271 | Employment Protection Act | Revises the penalties for violations of the State Employment Protection Act to include administrative dissolution or revocation of the offending employer; provides that the department of employment security, department of revenue, and secretary of state may promulgate rules and regulations implementing enforcement; provides civil penalties enforceable by the attorney general; conforms to the preceding section. | 2/4/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| MS | House | 1320 | One Fair Wage Act | Creates the One Fair Wage Act; provides definitions; establishes a state minimum wage; provides for increases in the minimum wage; provides the minimum wage for tipped employees; provides that this law shall not conflict with any federal law; provides a severability clause; provides that this act shall be prospective only; specifies for purposes of possible amendment. | 2/4/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Tip_credit; Wage_and_Hour: Tips; |
| MS | House | 1550 | Minimum Wage Law | Creates the State Minimum Wage Law; establishes the state minimum wage at $8.50 per hour; provides that employers with tipped employees are exempt from the requirement to pay the state minimum wage; establishes guidelines for employees entitled to overtime pay; provides for purposes of possible amendment. | 2/4/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Exemptions; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Overtime; Wage_and_Hour: Tip_credit; Wage_and_Hour: Tips; |
| MS | House | 1632 | State Service Employees | Extends the date of the repealer on those provisions of law authorizing state service agencies to implement a telework policy for certain state employees; relates to alcoholic beverages, for the purpose of possible amendment. | 2/4/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| MS | Senate | 2022 | Sick and Safe Leave Act | Establishes the Mississippi Sick and Safe Leave Act to be administered by the State Department of Employment Security; provides guidelines for accrual of earned paid sick leave; establishes proper uses of earned paid sick leave; prohibits employers from violating employee rights; requires employers to notify employees of certain aspects of paid sick and safe leave upon the commencement of employment; requires employers to retain records of compliance. | 2/4/2025 | | Leave_laws: Domestic_violence; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Safe; Leave_laws: Sexual_assault; Leave_laws: Sick Leave_laws: Stalking |
| MS | Senate | 2373 | Department of Labor | Establishes a State Department of Labor; sets forth and prescribe the functions of administrative offices in the Department; provides for the election of the commissioner of labor; abolishes the State Department of Employment Security and transfer the duties, powers and funds of the Department to the Office of Employment Security in the State Department of Labor; provides for the appointment of the executive director of the State Department of Employment Security. | 2/4/2025 | | Government: Dept_of_Labor; |
| MS | Senate | 2440 | Mississippi Minimum Wage Act | Enacts a minimum wage law for the State, with annual incremental increases over a three year period; defines employers and employees subject to the minimum wage law; empowers the State Department of Employment Security, office of the Governor, to enforce and administer the provisions of the minimum wage law; provides criminal penalties and a civil cause of action against employers for violations of the minimum wage law; authorizes municipal and county governing authorities. | 2/4/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Exemptions; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| MS | Senate | 2441 | Minimum Wage Law | Enacts a Minimum Wage Law for the State, with annual incremental increases over a three year period; defines employers and employees subject to the minimum wage law; empowers the State Department of Employment Security, office of the Governor, to enforce and administer the provisions of the minimum wage law; provides criminal penalties and a civil cause of action against employers for violations of the minimum wage law; authorizes municipal and county governing authorities, in their discretion, to mandate. | 2/4/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Exemptions; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| MS | Senate | 2438 | State Employees Paid Parental Leave Act | Establishes the Mississippi State Employees Paid Parental Leave Act; provides for six weeks of paid parental leave for eligible state employees who are the primary caregivers of a child and two weeks of paid parental leave for the secondary caregivers, to be used to care for the child after the birth or adoption of the child; defines eligible employee, paid parental leave, primary caregiver and secondary caregiver for the purposes of this act. | 3/6/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| MS | Senate | 2289 | State Employee Telework Policies | Requires that all agencies under the purview of the State Personnel Board shall report to the Board information about the individuals who perform telework for their agencies; prohibits the State Personnel Board, absent emergency circumstances, from processing any personnel actions within the system of record otherwise allowable for agencies under its purview unless and until such agency is in compliance with this act; requires that the State Personnel Board promulgate rules for the administration. | 4/3/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| MT | House | 128 | Volunteer Emergency Service Providers | Protects volunteer emergency service providers from termination by a public or private employer under certain conditions; provides for a legal cause of action for wrongful termination; provides that, with certain exceptions, the employer may not terminate the employment of a volunteer emergency services provider if the employee is absent or late to work while performing volunteer emergency service duties during an emergency and the specified provisions are fulfilled. | 4/17/2025 | 10/01/2025 | Leave_laws: Volunteer_responder; |
| MT | House | 226 | Legal Employment and Government Accountability Law | Establishing the legal employment and government accountability law; provides definitions; requires employer verification of legal ability to work in the united states of all employees prior to commencement of work; authorizes the department of labor and industry to enforce the act; provides for penalties for violation; establishes a state special revenue account for penalties; provides rulemaking authority; provides an effective date. | 5/5/2025 | 07/01/2025 | Employment_relations: E-verify; Employment_relations: Legal_work_status; |
| MT | House | 297 | Requirement for Paid Sick Days | Establishes requirement for paid sick days. | 5/20/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Confidential_info; Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Recordkeeping; Leave_laws: Domestic_violence; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Harassment Leave_laws: Paid_leave Leave_laws: Safe Leave_laws: Sexual_assault Leave_laws: Sick |
| MT | House | 319 | Employer Requirements for Employees | Prohibits employer requirements for employees; attends controversial social vision training. | 5/20/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Refuse_conditions; Prohibited_Practices: Social_vision; |
| MT | House | 484 | Minimum Wage Laws | Revises minimum wage laws to provide increases. | 5/20/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Exemptions; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| MT | Senate | 94 | Public Resources for Labor Organization Activities | Prohibits the use of public funds and resources for labor organization activities, including its application to school districts and teacher organization; prohibits certain labor organization activities while receiving compensation; provides that upon agreement by a public employer and an exclusive representative in collective bargaining, a public employee may engage in labor organization activities while in a duty status without loss of pay or benefits, under certain conditions. | 5/23/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| MT | Senate | 291 | Workers Compensation Definition of Wages | Revises laws related to workers’ compensation definition of wages. | 5/23/2025 | | Workers_Comp: Workers_comp; |
| MT | Senate | 313 | Wage Transparency | Revises laws relating to wage transparency. | 5/23/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Salary_history; Employer_Obligations: Wage_history; Prohibited_Practices: Equal_pay; |
| MT | Senate | 325 | Family and Medical Leave Act | Creates family and medical leave act. | 5/23/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Exigency; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Parental; |
| MT | Senate | 329 | Employment Eligibility | Revises employment law; requires employers to e-verify new employees; provides definitions; providing the attorney general with enforcement power; provides penalties; prohibits local governments from enacting laws in contravention of the act; provides an exception from wrongful termination laws. | 5/23/2025 | | Employment_relations: E-verify; Employment_relations: Legal_work_status; |
| MT | Senate | 376 | Right to Work Act | Establishes a right to work act. | 5/23/2025 | | Labor_Law: Right_to_work; |
| NC | House | 31 | Election Day | Amends the state human resources act to make the statewide general election day a paid holiday for state employees. | 2/24/2025 | | Leave_laws: Election_day; |
| NC | House | 168 | CROWN Act | Enacts the CROWN Act to create a respectful and open world for natural hair. | 2/24/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Hairstyles; Prohibited_Practices: Race; |
| NC | Senate | 154 | CROWN Act | Enacts the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act to create a respectful and open world for natural hair. | 2/25/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Hairstyles; Prohibited_Practices: Race; |
| NC | House | 269 | Workforce Freedom and Protection Act | Removes barriers to job mobility; empowers workers to negotiate better wages; fosters a fairer labor market by banning exploitative employment practices; authorizes the Legislative Research Commission to study streamlining occupational licensing in North Carolina. | 3/5/2025 | | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Covenant_not_solicit; Agreements: Non-compete; Agreements: Non-solicitation; |
| NC | House | 339 | Economic Security Act | Advances economic security for all in the State by increasing the state minimum wage, adjusted for inflation annually; mandates equal pay for equal work; requires paid sick leave, paid family medical leave, and workplace safety, emergency, and evacuation protections; restores unemployment insurance benefits adjusted for inflation and studying unemployment insurance benefits for app-based gig economy workers; increases the tipped minimum wage; ends wage theft. | 3/11/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_theft; Employer_Obligations: Notice; Leave_laws: Domestic_violence; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Safe Leave_laws: Sexual_assault Leave_laws: Sick Leave_laws: Stalking Prohibited_Practices: Equal_pay Prohibited_Practices: Refuse_conditions Prohibited_Practices: Refuse_work Prohibited_Practices: Retaliation Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage Wage_and_Hour: Tip_credit Wage_and_Hour: Tips Workplace_Behavior: Health Workplace_Behavior: Heat Workplace_Behavior: Safety |
| NC | House | 353 | Fair Minimum Wage Act | Raises the state minimum wage and indexing for automatic increases; requires payment of attorneys’ fees and costs in actions for unpaid wages. | 3/11/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| NC | Senate | 268 | Professional Employer Organization Act | Enacts changes to the Professional Employer Organization Act. | 3/13/2025 | | Industry: PEO; |
| NC | House | 398 | Wage and Hour Act | Amends the Wage and Hour Act to allow employees to use sick leave for the care of family members. | 3/17/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| NC | House | 403 | Workers Rights Act | Protects workers’ rights; appropriates funds for that purpose. | 3/17/2025 | | Agreements: Employment; Agreements: Hiring; Employment_relations: At-will; Employment_relations: Good_cause; Employment_relations: Just_cause; Hours_worked: Meal_break Hours_worked: Rest_break Prohibited_Practices: EEs_right_to_discuss |
| NC | House | 438 | Paid Rest Breaks | Amends the Wage and Hour Act to require employers to provide a paid break to any employee working a shift of a specified number of hours or more. | 3/19/2025 | | Hours_worked: Meal_break; |
| NC | Senate | 326 | Economic Security Act | Advances economic security for all in the state; increases the state minimum wage to a specified amount per hour, adjusted for inflation annually; mandates equal pay for equal work; requires paid sick leave, paid family medical leave, and workplace safety, emergency, and evacuation protections; restores unemployment insurance benefits adjusted for inflation; studies unemployment insurance benefits for app-based gig economy workers; increases the tipped minimum wage; ends wage theft. | 3/19/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Posting_requirement; Leave_laws: Domestic_violence; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Sexual_assault Leave_laws: Sick Leave_laws: Stalking Prohibited_Practices: Equal_pay |
| NC | Senate | 381 | Equality for All | Protects all citizens against discrimination in all walks of life. | 3/24/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Familial_status; Prohibited_Practices: Gender_identity; Prohibited_Practices: Genetic_information; Prohibited_Practices: Marital_status; Prohibited_Practices: Military_status; Prohibited_Practices: Sexual_orientation Prohibited_Practices: Veteran_status |
| NC | Senate | 458 | Enact KinCare and Safe Days | Amends the Wage and Hour Act to allow employees to use sick leave for the care of family members. | 3/25/2025 | | Leave_laws: Domestic_violence; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Safe; Leave_laws: Sexual_assault; Leave_laws: Sick; Leave_laws: Stalking |
| NC | House | 499 | Paid Family Leave Insurance Act | Enacts the Paid Family Leave Insurance Act. | 3/26/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Exigency; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Military; Leave_laws: Paid_leave Leave_laws: Parental |
| NC | Senate | 480 | Paid Family Leave Insurance Act | Enacts the North Carolina paid family leave insurance act. | 3/26/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Exigency; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Parental |
| NC | Senate | 588 | Pregnant Workers Protection Act | Protects pregnant women from discriminatory practices. | 3/26/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Accommodation; Employment_relations: Pregnant_employee; Prohibited_Practices: Disability; Prohibited_Practices: Pregnancy; |
| NC | Senate | 607 | Equal Pay Act | Prohibits discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of the gender of the employee. | 3/26/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Equal_pay; |
| NC | Senate | 622 | Healthy Families and Workplaces | Provides for healthy families and healthy workplaces by ensuring that all workers have earned paid sick days to address their own health needs and the health needs of their families. | 3/26/2025 | | Leave_laws: Domestic_violence; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Safe; Leave_laws: Sexual_assault; Leave_laws: Sick Leave_laws: Stalking |
| NC | Senate | 635 | Healthy Families and Workplaces | Provides for healthy families and healthy workplaces by ensuring that all workers have earned paid sick days to address their own health needs and the health needs of their families. | 3/26/2025 | | Leave_laws: Domestic_violence; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Safe; Leave_laws: Sexual_assault; Leave_laws: Sick Leave_laws: Stalking |
| NC | Senate | 708 | Working Families Act | Reduces parent copayments for subsidized childcare; reenacts the child tax credit; increases the state minimum wage; grants local governments flexibility to set a higher local minimum wage; increases the income eligibility limit for the property tax homestead circuit breaker; creates a homebuyers’ assistance program with the State Housing Finance Agency for first-time homebuyers who work as public servants. | 3/26/2025 | | Government: Local_authority; Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Exigency; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Military Leave_laws: Parental Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage |
| NC | House | 521 | Paid Sick Leave | Provides for healthy families and healthy workplaces by ensuring that all workers have earned paid sick days to address their own health needs and the health needs of their families. | 3/27/2025 | | Leave_laws: Domestic_violence; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Safe; Leave_laws: Sexual_violence; Leave_laws: Sick; Leave_laws: Stalking |
| NC | House | 538 | Equality for All | Protects all citizens against discrimination in all walks of life. | 3/27/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Age; Prohibited_Practices: Color; Prohibited_Practices: Disability; Prohibited_Practices: Discrimination; Prohibited_Practices: Familial_status; Prohibited_Practices: Gender_identity Prohibited_Practices: Genetic_information Prohibited_Practices: Marital_status Prohibited_Practices: Military_status Prohibited_Practices: Race Prohibited_Practices: Religion Prohibited_Practices: Sex Prohibited_Practices: Sexual_orientation Prohibited_Practices: Veteran_status |
| NC | House | 786 | Working Families Act | Reduces parent copayments for subsidized child care; reenacts the child tax credit; raises the state minimum wage in phases; allows a higher local minimum wage; increases the income eligibility limit for the property tax homestead circuit breaker; creates a homebuyers’ assistance program with the Housing Finance Agency for first-time homebuyers who work as public servants. | 4/7/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Exigency; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Military; Leave_laws: Parental Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage |
| NC | House | 826 | No Retaliation Against Mandatory Reporters | Amends the labor laws to provide protection for mandatory reporters. | 4/9/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Mandatory_reporting; Prohibited_Practices: Retaliation; |
| NC | House | 940 | Protection Against Pregnancy Discrimination | Protects against employment discrimination based on pregnancy, childbirth, and pregnancy related conditions. | 4/14/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Accommodation; Employment_relations: Pregnant_employee; Leave_laws: Pregnancy; Prohibited_Practices: Childbirth; Prohibited_Practices: Pregnancy; |
| NC | House | 973 | Uniform Restrictive Employment Agreement Act | Enacts the Uniform Restrictive Employment Agreement Act. | 4/14/2025 | | Agreements: Confidentiality; Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Covenant_not_solicit; Agreements: Employment; Agreements: Non-compete; Agreements: Non-solicitation Agreements: Restrictive_covenant Employment_relations: Low_wage_employee |
| NC | House | 663 | Living Donor Protection Act | Protects living donors from potential insurance discrimination; provides an income tax credit for unreimbursed medical expenses resulting from certain organ and marrow donations; provides paid leave to state employees and other state-supported personnel who serve as living organ donors and paid leave for bone marrow donors. | 4/30/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| NC | Senate | 311 | Utility Worker Protection Act | Increases the punishment for committing an assault against a utility or communications worker; creates the offense of criminal possession and unlawful sale of embalming fluid and to make other technical revisions; amends workplace violence prevention laws to cover mass picketing; establishes an offense for entering a part of a building not open to the public with the intent to commit an unlawful act, to establish the offense of larceny of gift cards. | 7/9/2025 | 07/09/2025 | Employment_relations: Utility_worker; Industry: Utility; |
| NC | House | 162 | Criminal History Check | Provides that counties and cities shall require criminal history record checks for applicants for employment if the position being filled requires the applicant to work with children in any capacity. | 9/12/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| NC | House | 717 | Professional Employer Organization Act | Enacts changes to the North Carolina professional employer organization act, as recommended by the Department of Insurance. | 9/12/2025 | | Industry: PEO; |
| ND | House | 1608 | Employee Leave for Rest and Worship | Relates to employee leave for rest and worship; provides a penalty. | 2/6/2025 | | Leave_laws: Religious; |
| ND | House | 1606 | Sick Leave for State Employees | Relates to sick leave for state employees. | 2/19/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| ND | HCR | 3032 | Minimum Wage | Creates and enact a new section to article XI of the Constitution of State, relating to the minimum wage. | 3/7/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| ND | House | 1391 | New Status | Relates to creating a new status related to human rights and antidiscrimination policies. | 3/28/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Health; |
| NE | L | 144 | Veterans’ Employment Preference Provisions | Changes provisions relating to veterans’ preferences for employment; provides that preference eligibles who obtain passing scores on all parts or phases of an examination or numerical scoring shall have five percent added to their passing score if a claim for such preference is made on the application; provides that if two or more preference eligibles are being considered for the position, the veterans preference shall be applied equally to all such preference eligibles. | 4/9/2025 | 09/03/2025 (Corrected) | Employment_relations: Preference; Employment_relations: Veteran; |
| NE | L | 293 | Professional Employer Organization Registration Act | Changes provisions relating to health benefit plans and employee welfare benefit plans. | 6/4/2025 | 09/03/2025 | Industry: PEO; |
| NE | L | 415 | Healthy Families and Workplaces Act | Redefines terms and change and eliminate applicability, administrative, and enforcement provisions under the Nebraska Healthy Families and Workplaces Act; defines and redefines terms and provide for set off of debt owed due to the overpayment of unemployment benefits under the Employment Security Law against gambling winnings under the Gambling Winnings Setoff for Outstanding Debt Act; changes provisions relating to the offset of overpayment of unemployment benefits against future benefits. | 6/4/2025 | 09/03/2025 | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| NE | L | 75 | Wage and Hour Act | Relates to the Wage and Hour Act; clarifies language regarding compensation for tipped employees; provides for the duties for employers; changes the powers and duties of the Department of Labor and the Commissioner of Labor; prohibits acts; provides for a penalty; provides for liquidated damages. | 8/27/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Recordkeeping; Wage_and_Hour: Gratuities; Wage_and_Hour: Tip_credit; Wage_and_Hour: Tips; |
| NE | L | 189 | Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Act | Adopts the Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Act. | 8/27/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Exigency; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Military; Leave_laws: Paid_leave Leave_laws: Parental Leave_laws: Pregnancy |
| NE | L | 224 | Paid Maternity Leave | Requires paid maternity leave for State employees. | 8/27/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| NE | L | 258 | Wage and Hour Act | Changes provisions relating to the minimum wage under the Wage and Hour Act. | 8/27/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Subminimum_wage; |
| NE | L | 477 | Workplace Privacy Act | Changes provisions of the Workplace Privacy Act. | 8/27/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Electronic_monitor; |
| NE | L | 532 | E-Verify | Requires employers to use E-Verify, prohibit knowingly hiring an unauthorized alien, and provide for discipline against employers’ licenses. | 8/27/2025 | | Employment_relations: E-verify; Employment_relations: Legal_work_status; Employment_relations: Prospective_employee; |
| NE | L | 573 | Meat and Poultry Workers and Contractors Protection Act | Adopts the Meat and Poultry Workers and Contractors Protection Act. | 8/27/2025 | | Agreements: Collective_bargainin; Employer_Obligations: Notice; Industry: Meatpacking; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; |
| NE | L | 677 | Medical Cannabis Regulation Act | Changes provisions of the Nebraska Medical Cannabis Regulation Act and provide for regulation of medical cannabis. | 8/27/2025 | | Workplace_Behavior: Cannabis; Workplace_Behavior: Drug-free_workplace; Workplace_Behavior: Drug_testing; Workplace_Behavior: Marijuana; |
| NE | L | 694 | Discrimination | Prohibits discrimination based on military or veteran status. | 8/27/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Military_status; Prohibited_Practices: Veteran_status; |
| NE | L | 698 | Healthy Families and Workplaces Act | Changes provisions of the Nebraska Healthy Families and Workplaces Act. | 8/27/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| NE | L | 705 | Medical Cannabis Patient Protection Act | Changes provisions of the Nebraska Medical Cannabis Patient Protection Act and the Nebraska Medical Cannabis Regulation Act, provide for regulation of medical cannabis, and adopt the Nebraska Medical Cannabis Justice Act and the Cannabis Conviction Clean Slate Act. | 8/27/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Medical_marijuana; Workplace_Behavior: Cannabis; Workplace_Behavior: Marijuana; |
| NH | House | 69 | Federal E-Verify System | Requires businesses to use the federal E-Verify system of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. | 2/6/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: E-verify; Employment_relations: Legal_work_status; |
| NH | House | 353 | Hearing Protection for Employees of Night Clubs | Directs nightclub and music venues to provide hearing protection for employees when the sound levels exceed certain decibels; provides for rulemaking and enforcement through the Department of Labor. | 2/6/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Hearing_opportunity; Industry: Night_club; Workplace_Behavior: Hearing_protection; |
| NH | House | 238 | Workers Free Choice | Prohibits collective bargaining agreements that require employees to join or contribute to a labor union. | 2/13/2025 | | Labor_Law: Right_to_work; |
| NH | House | 378 | Employees Unused Earned Time | Requires an employer to pay an employee for unused earned time. | 3/6/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_time_off; Wage_Payment: Accrued_leave; Wage_Payment: End_of_employment; Wage_Payment: Final_payment; |
| NH | House | 52 | Legal Holidays | Clarifies the effect of designating a day a legal holiday and makes the days on which the state primary preceding a biennial election and the quadrennial presidential primary are held legal holidays. | 3/13/2025 | | Leave_laws: Election_day; Leave_laws: Holidays; |
| NH | Senate | 177 | E-Verify System | Relates to requiring New Hampshire employers with over 25 employees use the E-Verify system. | 3/13/2025 | | Employment_relations: E-verify; Employment_relations: Legal_work_status; |
| NH | House | 379 | Youth Employment | Relates to youth employment during the school year and at night; clarifies the number of hours a minor is permitted to work when school is in session and limits the evening hours a minor is permitted to work when school is in session. | 3/20/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| NH | House | 347 | Employment for Members of the General Court | Provides members of the General Court with employment protections during voting sessions. | 3/26/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| NH | House | 487 | Advance Notice of the Work Schedule | Relates to providing employees with advance notice of the work schedule; provides that an employer shall provide hourly paid employees notice of the employees work schedule at least a specified number of days in advance of any pay period; provides for exceptions. | 3/26/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Work_schedule; |
| NH | House | 512 | Municipal Employees | Relates to preventing municipal employees from being paid under multiple municipal contracts simultaneously; prevents town managers, administrators, and school superintendents from being compensated by more than one town or district contract at a time; creates criminal penalties for town managers, administrators, and school superintendents who accept compensation from more than one town or district contract at a time. | 4/21/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| NH | Senate | 169 | Workers Compensation Benefits | Requires employers who provide supplemental pay to employees receiving workers’ compensation benefits to notify the employee with a breakdown of payments, anticipated financial adjustments, employee costs of withholdings, and method of payment options. | 5/1/2025 | | Workers_Comp: Workers_comp; |
| NH | House | 280 | Wage Payments | Repeals the weekly or biweekly payment of wage methods and authorizes employers to choose the payment method of their employees. | 5/15/2025 | | Wage_Payment: Pay_frequency; |
| NH | House | 517 | Granite State Paid Family Leave Plan | Relates to outreach and marketing requirements under the Granite State Paid Family Leave Plan; repeals the requirement that the State engage in certain outreach and marketing activities to increase awareness of the Granite State Paid Family Leave Plan. | 5/17/2025 | 07/13/2025 | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; |
| NH | House | 186 | Legalization and Regulation of Cannabis | Establishes procedures for the legalization, regulation, and taxation of cannabis; the licensing and regulation of cannabis establishments; makes appropriations therefor. | 10/8/2025 | | Workplace_Behavior: Cannabis; Workplace_Behavior: Impairment; Workplace_Behavior: Marijuana; |
| NH | LSR | 3138 | New State Paid Family and Medical Leave Program | Establishes a new state paid family and medical leave program. | 12/17/2025 | | Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| NH | H | 347 | Employment for Members of the General Court | Provides members of the General Court with employment protections during voting sessions. | 12/18/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| NH | H | 386 | Nursing Agencies | Prohibits nursing agencies from including non-compete clauses in contracts with health care entities. | 12/18/2025 | | Agreements: Non-compete; Employment_relations: Nurse; Industry: Health_care; Industry: Nurse_agencies; |
| NH | H | 757 | Tip Pooling and Sharing and Automatic Service Charges | Provides that employers administering a tip pooling or sharing arrangement must include an example of the arrangement in its documentation; provides that the employer must provide a written notice to the employee, and specifies the content of that notice; requires certain employers using a service charge to disclose the allocation of that charge on an itemized receipt given to the customer. | 12/18/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Policy_requirement; Wage_and_Hour: Service_charge; Wage_and_Hour: Tip_pools; Wage_and_Hour: Tip_sharing; Wage_and_Hour: Tips |
| NH | S | 169 | Workers Compensation Benefits | Requires employers who provide supplemental pay to employees receiving workers’ compensation benefits to notify the employee with a breakdown of payments, anticipated financial adjustments, employee costs of withholdings, and method of payment options. | 12/18/2025 | | Workers_Comp: Workers_comp; |
| NJ | Assembly | 4750 | Employer Reporting Requirements | Expands certain employer reporting requirements to include entities that employ or contract with individuals for financial compensation, including ride sharing and delivery technology platforms. | 1/14/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Recordkeeping; Wage_and_Hour: Compensation; |
| NJ | Senate | 4022 | State Employees and Students Holiday Observance Leave | Authorizes State employees to take administrative leave days in observance of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha; requires school districts to permit students excused absences for observance of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. | 1/14/2025 | | Leave_laws: Holidays; |
| NJ | Assembly | 5208 | Family Leave | Regards the Comprehensive Reimbursement and Duration of Leave Expansion Act; increases family leave insurance benefits and duration of leave for child bonding. | 1/16/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Parental; |
| NJ | AR | 158 | Artificial Intelligence Companies Whistleblowers | Urges generative artificial intelligence companies to make voluntary commitments regarding employee whistleblower protections; urges generative artificial intelligence companies to commit to the specified principles, including, among others, that the company shall not enter into or enforce any agreement prohibiting disparagement or criticism of the company for risk-related concerns or retaliate for risk-related criticism by hindering any vested economic benefit. | 1/30/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Whistleblower; |
| NJ | Assembly | 4841 | Housing and Employment Discrimination | Relates to housing discrimination based on source of lawful income; provides that it shall be an unlawful employment practice or an unlawful discrimination to refuse to sell, rent, lease, assign, or sublease or otherwise to deny to or withhold from any person or group of persons any real property because of the source of any lawful income or source of any lawful rent payment, including, but not limited to, by refusing to accept as payment any source of lawful income. | 2/3/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Source_of_income; |
| NJ | Assembly | 5048 | Military Discrimination | Enhances protections under the Law Against Discrimination for persons serving in the military and military veterans. | 2/13/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Military_status; |
| NJ | Assembly | 2145 | First Responders Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder | Provides that an employer shall not discharge, harass, or otherwise discriminate or retaliate or threaten to discharge, harass, or otherwise discriminate or retaliate against an employee with respect to the compensation, terms, conditions, duties, or privileges of employment on the basis that the employee took or requested any leave related to a qualifying diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder. | 2/20/2025 | | Docket: To_be_tagged; |
| NJ | Assembly | 5022 | Occupational Heat Related Illness and Injury Prevention | Establishes the Occupational Heat Related Illness and Injury Prevention Program and occupational heat stress standard in the Department of Labor and Workforce Development; relates to an employer that is subject to the provisions of this act shall be required to conduct an annual review to determine whether revisions of its heat-related illness and injury prevention plan are necessary, and the employer shall revise the plan consistent with the provisions of this act if it finds that revisions are necessary. | 2/20/2025 | | Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: Heat; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; |
| NJ | Senate | 4194 | Concrete Industry Workers Sick Leave | Provides that earned sick leave law does not apply to certain workers in concrete industry. | 3/3/2025 | | Industry: Concrete; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| NJ | Senate | 4197 | Employee Health Related Remote Work | Requires employer to allow employee suffering from menstrual disorder to work remotely in certain circumstances. | 3/3/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Accommodation; Employer_Obligations: Remote_work; Prohibited_Practices: Menstrual_disorder; |
| NJ | Senate | 4221 | Employment Verification | Prohibits the employment of unauthorized aliens and requires employers to use E-Verify program. | 3/3/2025 | | Employment_relations: E-verify; Employment_relations: Immigration_status; Employment_relations: Legal_work_status; |
| NJ | Assembly | 4501 | Resident Farm Employees Housing | Directs State Agriculture Development Committee to adopt agricultural management practice for housing resident farm employees on commercial farms, and establishes such housing as eligible for Right to Farm protection; relates differential property taxation pursuant to Farmland Assessment Act. | 3/24/2025 | | Employment_relations: Agricultural_employe; Industry: Agriculture; Wage_and_Hour: Lodging; |
| NJ | Assembly | 5499 | First Responders Paid Sick Days | Requires employer to provide one additional paid sick day per benefit year to paid first responders for healthcare diagnostic testing. | 3/24/2025 | | Employment_relations: First_responder; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| NJ | Assembly | 5433 | Minimum Wage for Tipped Workers | Increases minimum wage for tipped workers. | 4/10/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Tip_credit; Wage_and_Hour: Tips; |
| NJ | Assembly | 5588 | Employment of Minors in Theatrical Productions | Revises child labor laws concerning employment of minor in theatrical production. | 5/5/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| NJ | Senate | 3353 | Housing Resident Farm Employees | Directs the State Agriculture Development Committee to adopt agricultural management practice for housing resident farm employees on commercial farms; establishes such housing as eligible for Right to Farm protection; provides that the agricultural management practice shall provide that the amount of resident farm employee housing shall correlate to the amount of labor needed on the farm; provides that a resident farm employee shall not be charged rent to live in resident farm employee housing. | 5/9/2025 | 05/09/2025 | Employment_relations: Agricultural_employe; Industry: Agriculture; Wage_and_Hour: Lodging; |
| NJ | Assembly | 3025 | Poll Worker Wages Unemployment Exemption | Exempts poll worker wages from affecting unemployment compensation; provides that the term employment does not apply to services performed, prior to specified date, in the employ of a school which is not an institution of higher education, and after specified date, in the employ of a governmental entity if such service is performed by an individual in the exercise of duties as a temporary board worker hired by a district board of elections to discharge election duties. | 5/12/2025 | | Unemployment: Unemployment; |
| NJ | Senate | 3183 | Minors Working as Vloggers Compensation | Concerns compensation for minors of family vloggers; provides that no minor under 16 years of age not a resident of this State shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in any occupation or service whatsoever at any time during which the law of the state of his residence required his attendance at school, or at any time during the hours when the public schools in the district in which employment in such occupation or services may be available are in session. | 5/12/2025 | | Employment_relations: Minor; Industry: Entertainment; |
| NJ | Senate | 4385 | Non Compete Clauses | Prohibits non compete clauses. | 5/19/2025 | | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Covenant_not_solicit; Agreements: Non-compete; Agreements: Non-solicitation; |
| NJ | Senate | 4386 | Non Compete Clauses and No Poach Agreements | Prohibits non compete clauses and no poach agreements. | 5/19/2025 | | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Covenant_not_solicit; Agreements: Non-compete; Agreements: Non-solicitation; |
| NJ | Assembly | 5708 | Non Compete Clauses | Prohibits non-compete clauses. | 5/22/2025 | | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Covenant_not_solicit; Agreements: Non-compete; Agreements: Non-solicitation; |
| NJ | Assembly | 4618 | Inspection Facility Employees Collective Bargaining | Requires official inspection facility employees covered by collective bargaining agreement to be offered employment following contract renewal or award of new contract; requires the collective bargaining agreement to be binding in certain cases; provides that in the event of a sale, transfer of assets including contracts, or in the event of a merger with another company, the collective bargaining agreement in effect at the time shall be binding on any successors and assigns. | 5/29/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| NJ | Senate | 3249 | Earned Sick Leave Employer Compliance | Establishes additional manner of employer compliance to provide earned sick leave for certain employees subject to collective bargaining agreements. | 6/2/2025 | | Docket: To_be_tagged; |
| NJ | Senate | 4550 | Government Employees Good Friday Holiday Leave | Permits State and certain local government employees to work on Good Friday in exchange for alternate religious holiday leave. | 6/2/2025 | | Leave_laws: Holidays; |
| NJ | Senate | 172 | Paid Family Leave Benefits | Establishes in the Department of Labor and Workforce Development a program to provide tax credits to employers that provide full paid leave for up to a specified number of full working days to employees for time needed by the employee in connection with a child of the employee to attend a school related conference, meeting, function or other event; provides that such provisions shall not be construed to permit an employer to require an employee to exhaust all other available leave prior to using the leave. | 6/5/2025 | | Docket: To_be_tagged; |
| NJ | Senate | 4340 | Employment of Minors in Theatrical Productions | Provides that upon application of an employer, bearing the endorsed approval of a parent or guardian of the minor, or upon the application of a parent or guardian of the minor, a permit authorizing employment of the minor in a theatrical production may be issued under certain conditions; provides that the Department of Labor and Workforce Development shall establish and maintain a registration system for permits authorizing employment of a minor in a theatrical production. | 6/5/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| NJ | Assembly | 5547 | Minors Sports Employment Hours | Extends hours that minor employed by national sports association, league, or team may work under certain circumstances; establishes process in DOLWD to waive evening time limits for minor under certain circumstances. | 6/16/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| NJ | Assembly | 5872 | Youth and Sports Organizations Background Checks | Requires volunteers, employees, and organizers of certain youth and sports organizations to receive criminal history record background checks. | 6/23/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Background_checks; Industry: Sports; Industry: Youth_activity_org; |
| NJ | Assembly | 4029 | Registration and Payroll Records of Employers | Requires employer or contractor engaged in work for public body to submit payroll records to Department of Labor and Workforce Development (DOLWD). | 6/30/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Reporting_required; Industry: Govt_contractor; |
| NJ | Assembly | 4124 | Public Works Contract Employee Minimum Qualifications | Establishes minimum qualifications for persons employed on a public works contract; provides that a contractor shall register electronically with the Department of Labor on an online form provided by the Commissioner of Labor; provides that the form shall require certain information, including certification that each journeyperson completing work established in the contract meets specified qualifications, including, among other things, graduating from an apprenticeship program that meets certain standards. | 6/30/2025 | | Docket: To_be_tagged; |
| NJ | Assembly | 5692 | Minor League Baseball Players Wage Laws | Exempts minor league baseball players from certain State wage laws under certain circumstances. | 6/30/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Exemptions; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Overtime; |
| NJ | Senate | 2373 | Employment Protections for Paid First Responders | Provides employment protections for paid first responders diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder under certain conditions; defines public entity as the State, any county, municipality, district, public authority, public agency, and any other political subdivision or public body in the State. | 7/24/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Accommodation; Employment_relations: First_responder; Leave_laws: First_responder; Leave_laws: PTSD; |
| NJ | Senate | 4400 | Minors Sports Employment Hours | Extends hours that minor employed by national sports association, league, or team may work under certain circumstances. | 7/24/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| NJ | Senate | 3773 | Employee Leasing Agreements | Relates to requirements to report separations from employment under employee leasing agreements. | 8/21/2025 | 08/21/2025 | Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employment_relations: Employee_leasing; Employment_relations: Separation; Industry: Hiring_agency; |
| NJ | Assembly | 4429 | Political Communications Employee Requirements | Prohibits communications of information that the employer is required by law to communicate; limits the rights of an employer or its agent, representative, or designee from communicating to its employees any information that is necessary for the employees to perform their required job duties, including by requiring employees to attend a meeting or participate in communications. | 9/3/2025 | 12/02/2025 | Prohibited_Practices: Political_matters; Prohibited_Practices: Religious_matters; |
| NJ | Assembly | 4182 | Cannabis Workers Employment Conditions | Concerns conditions of employment of certain cannabis workers. | 10/20/2025 | | Agreements: Collective_bargainin; Industry: Marijuana; |
| NJ | Assembly | 4302 | Minors Working as Vloggers Compensation | Requires family member to compensate minor working as vlogger in certain circumstances. | 10/20/2025 | | Industry: Entertainment; Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| NJ | Senate | 1403 | Registration and Payroll Records of Employers | Requires an employer or contractor engaged in work for a public body to submit payroll records to the Department of Labor and Workforce Development; provides that the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development shall have the authority to require any employer or contractor engaged in any work for a public body to file, within a specified number of days of receipt of a request, certain records, books, registers, payrolls, and other records of any such employer or contractor; relates to prevailing wage. | 10/20/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Recordkeeping; Employer_Obligations: Reporting_required; Industry: Govt_contractor; |
| NJ | Senate | 2961 | Public Works Contract Minimum Employment Qualifications | Establishes minimum qualifications for persons employed on public works contract. | 10/20/2025 | | Industry: Govt_contractor; |
| NJ | A | 5708 | Non Compete Clauses | Prohibits non-compete clauses. | 12/4/2025 | | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Covenant_not_solicit; Agreements: Non-compete; Agreements: Non-solicitation; |
| NJ | A | 6131 | Project Labor Agreements | Requires public entities to enter into project labor agreements in certain public works projects at or above a certain amount. | 12/4/2025 | | Agreements: Project_labor; Industry: Govt_contractor; |
| NJ | A | 5547 | Minors Sports Employment Hours | Extends hours that minor employed by national sports association, league, or team may work under certain circumstances. | 12/8/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| NJ | ACR | 177 | Independent Contractors Employment Status Tests | Declares Department of Labor and Workforce Development new rules concerning employment status test for independent contractors inconsistent with legislative intent. | 12/8/2025 | | Employment_relations: Employee; Employment_relations: Independent_contract; |
| NJ | S | 4958 | Minors Minimum Wages | Requires payment of minimum wage to minors; requires payment of overtime to minors in certain circumstances; codifies certain exemptions to overtime payment requirements. | 12/8/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Overtime; Wage_and_Hour: Subminimum_wage; |
| NJ | S | 4993 | Medical Cannabis Patients Adverse Employment Actions | Establishes protection from adverse employment action for authorized medical cannabis patients. | 12/15/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Medical_marijuana; Workplace_Behavior: Cannabis; Workplace_Behavior: Drug_testing; Workplace_Behavior: Impairment; |
| NJ | A | 1611 | Youth Service Employee Background Check Registry | Establishes central registry for background checks of youth serving organization employees and volunteers. | 12/18/2025 | | Docket: To_be_tagged; |
| NJ | A | 4750 | Employer Reporting Requirements | Expands certain employer reporting requirements to include entities that employ or contract with individuals for financial compensation, including ride sharing and delivery technology platforms. | 12/18/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Recordkeeping; Wage_and_Hour: Compensation; |
| NJ | A | 4841 | Housing and Employment Discrimination | Relates to housing discrimination based on source of lawful income; provides that it shall be an unlawful employment practice or an unlawful discrimination to refuse to sell, rent, lease, assign, or sublease or otherwise to deny to or withhold from any person or group of persons any real property because of the source of any lawful income or source of any lawful rent payment, including, but not limited to, by refusing to accept as payment any source of lawful income. | 12/18/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Source_of_income; |
| NJ | S | 3759 | Housing and Employment Discrimination | Concerns housing discrimination based on source of lawful income. | 12/18/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Source_of_income; |
| NJ | S | 4400 | Working Hours for Minors | Amends child labor laws to provide that a minor who is 14 or 15 years of age may be employed as a professional athlete by a national sports association, league, or team following 11:30 p.m. of any day in the event that employment is a continuation of a workday which begins before 11:30 p.m. but ends later due to return travel or due to a match or game time delay, with a special written permit from the minor’s parents or legal guardian. | 12/19/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| NJ | A | 3451 | Family Leave | Revises law concerning family leave to extend protection by reducing employee threshold from 30 employees to 15 employees in definition of employer. | 12/22/2025 | | Docket: To_be_tagged; |
| NJ | A | 4182 | Cannabis Workers Employment Conditions | Revises collective bargaining agreement protections for cannabis employees and certain private sector employees. | 12/22/2025 | | Agreements: Collective_bargainin; Industry: Marijuana; |
| NJ | A | 4618 | Inspection Facility Employees Collective Bargaining | Requires official inspection facility employees covered by collective bargaining agreement to be offered employment following contract renewal or award of new contract; requires the collective bargaining agreement to be binding in certain cases; provides that in the event of a sale, transfer of assets including contracts, or a merger with another company, the collective bargaining agreement in effect at the time shall be binding on successors and assigns. | 12/22/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| NJ | S | 2950 | Family Leave | Revises law concerning family leave to extend protection by reducing employee threshold from 30 employees to 15 employees in definition of employer. | 12/22/2025 | | Docket: To_be_tagged; |
| NJ | S | 3139 | Cannabis Workers Employment Conditions | Concerns conditions of employment of certain cannabis employees; concerns conditions of employment for certain cannabis employees. | 12/22/2025 | | Agreements: Collective_bargainin; Industry: Marijuana; |
| NJ | S | 3435 | Inspection Facility Employees Collective Bargaining | Requires official inspection facility employees covered by collective bargaining agreement to be offered employment following contract renewal or award of new contract; requires collective bargaining agreement to be binding in certain cases. | 12/22/2025 | | Labor_Law: Labor_law; |
| NM | House | 30 | Motor Carrier Safety Act Changes | Relates to motor carriers; amends and enacting sections of the motor carrier safety act; provides requirements for motor carriers of railroad employees; provides requirements for the drivers, vehicles and equipment of motor carriers of railroad employees; authorizes the department of transportation to inspect, review, audit and investigate to ensure compliance with the motor carrier safety act; limits hours of service of drivers of motor carriers of railroad employees. | 1/22/2025 | | Industry: Railroad; |
| NM | House | 246 | Increase Minimum Wage | Relates to increase minimum wage. | 2/14/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; |
| NM | House | 446 | Parental Leave and Fund | Relates to parental leave and fund. | 2/17/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Parental; |
| NM | House | 337 | Health Care Whistleblower Protection Act | Relates to health care whistleblower protection act. | 2/19/2025 | | Industry: Health_care; Prohibited_Practices: Whistleblower; |
| NM | House | 522 | Wage Increase for Certain Employees | Relates to wage increases for certain employees. | 2/20/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Tip_credit; Wage_and_Hour: Tips; |
| NM | Senate | 103 | Direct Care Workforce | Relates to health care; requires entities participating in medicaid personal care services programs to report to the health care authority on the status of the direct care workforce; requires the health care authority to develop reports on the direct care workforce. | 2/26/2025 | | Employment_relations: Direct_care_employee; Industry: Direct_care; |
| NM | House | 438 | Employee Payment for Unused Leave | Relates to employee benefits; requires employees of the state and political subdivisions of the state to be provided an opportunity to exchange unused compensatory leave for compensation at least twice each year. | 3/5/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| NM | House | 415 | Notice of Use of Earned Sick Leave | Relates to notice of use of earned sick leave. | 3/7/2025 | | Employee_obligation: Notice; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| NM | Senate | 269 | Cannabis Testing Certain Employees | Relates to cannabis testing certain employees. | 3/10/2025 | | Workplace_Behavior: Cannabis; Workplace_Behavior: Drug_testing; Workplace_Behavior: Impairment; Workplace_Behavior: Marijuana; |
| NM | House | 11 | Welcome Child and Family Wellness Leave Act | Enacts the welcome child and family wellness leave act; creates the family wellness leave fund; provides for the family wellness leave fund to pay an eligible applicant a percentage of the applicant’s wages to allow the applicant to take family wellness leave; creates the welcome child fund; provides for the welcome child fund to pay an eligible applicant a refund upon the birth or adoption of a child; allows an eligible applicant to take leave to bond with a biological or adopted child. | 3/11/2025 | | Leave_laws: Abuse; Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Domestic_violence; Leave_laws: Exigency; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical Leave_laws: Paid_leave Leave_laws: Parental Leave_laws: Safe Leave_laws: Sexual_assault Leave_laws: Stalking |
| NM | House | 230 | Cannabis Testing Certain Employees | Relates to cannabis testing certain employees. | 3/13/2025 | | Workplace_Behavior: Cannabis; Workplace_Behavior: Drug_testing; Workplace_Behavior: Marijuana; |
| NM | House | 84 | Employee Free Speech Act | Relates to employment; enacts the employee free speech act; protects employee free speech from captive audience speeches; provides remedies for violations of employee free speech. | 3/14/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Political_matters; Prohibited_Practices: Refuse_conditions; |
| NM | House | 22 | Prohibit Credit Card Tip Fee Deductions | Relates to employment; amends the minimum wage act to prohibit employers from deducting credit card fees or costs from employee tips; declares an emergency. | 3/18/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Credit_card_fees; Wage_and_Hour: Tips; |
| NM | House | 6 | Industrial Revenue Bonds Project Minimum Wage | Relates to minimum wage; requires that projects undertaken by a municipality or county through the issuance of industrial revenue bonds pay the prevailing wage and comply with the provisions. | 4/9/2025 | 06/20/2025 | Wage_and_Hour: Prevailing_wage; |
| NM | Senate | 59 | Public Works | Relates to public works; defines site of the project, which includes off site fabrication; defines site of the project as used in the Public Works Minimum Wage Act as the physical location of a public works project as well as any off site fabrication locations that engage in the fabrication of heating, cooling, ventilation or exhaust duct systems that are part of the public works project. | 4/9/2025 | 06/20/2025 | Wage_and_Hour: Prevailing_wage; |
| NV | Assembly | 94 | Public Works | Relates to public works. | 4/12/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: E-verify; Employment_relations: E-verify; Industry: Govt_contractor; |
| NV | Assembly | 166 | Employment of Minors | Revises provisions relating to the employment of minors. | 4/12/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; |
| NV | Assembly | 255 | Certain Employment Contracts or Similar Agreements | Prohibits certain provisions in certain employment contracts or similar agreements. | 4/12/2025 | | Agreements: Employment; Agreements: Repayment; Employer_Obligations: Training; |
| NV | Senate | 204 | Agricultural Foreign Worker | Relates to wages; authorizes a temporary agricultural foreign worker who performs herding or production of livestock on the range under an H-2A visa and his or her employer to enter into a written agreement to exclude from the wages of the worker certain specified periods for meals, sleep and other free time; exempts an employer of a temporary agricultural foreign worker who performs herding or production of livestock on the range under an H-2A visa from certain recordkeeping requirements. | 4/12/2025 | | Employment_relations: Agricultural_employe; Employment_relations: H-2A; Industry: Agriculture; |
| NV | Assembly | 422 | Civil Air Patrol | Relates to the Civil Air Patrol; revises provisions relating to the employment of a member of the Civil Air Patrol; provides other matters properly relating thereto. | 5/30/2025 | 10/01/2025 | Leave_laws: Civil_air_patrol; |
| NV | Assembly | 155 | Collective Bargaining and Teacher Ratios | Relates to mandatory subjects of bargaining that are subject to negotiation with a recognized employee organization, including the ratio of pupils per licensed teacher for each classroom and the ratio of pupils per each type of specialized instructional support personnel in public schools; creates an exception to certain requirements for when a school district is bound to a ratio of pupils per licensed teacher or specialized instructional support personnel set by a collective bargaining agreement. | 6/2/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| NV | Senate | 172 | Certain Rights for Agricultural Workers | Relates to employment; enacts the Agricultural Workers’ Bill of Rights; revises and establishes provisions; relates to the payment of wages and the provision of periods for rest and meals; establishes certain rights of agricultural workers; relates to housing and access to certain service providers; prohibits certain actions related to weeding and thinning; requires the provision of certain protections to agricultural workers during certain emergencies and disasters; authorizes collective bargaining. | 6/2/2025 | | Employment_relations: Agricultural_employe; Industry: Agriculture; |
| NV | Senate | 198 | Labor and Payment of Wages | Provides that any compensation if an employee that is earned and unpaid at the time the employee is discharged, resigns or quits is required to be paid in the same manner and on the same day on which the employee would have regularly been paid the compensation; defines compensation as any bonus, arrangement to share profits, fringe benefits, matching contribution made to a 401(k) plan and any other similar contribution; revises the penalty imposed upon an employer for the failure to pay such wages when due. | 6/2/2025 | | Wage_Payment: Final_payment; |
| NV | Assembly | 215 | Employment of Children | Prohibits work between the specified hours on any night immediately preceding a school day by a child who is enrolled in high school at a public or private school, between the specified ages, and not emancipated; exempts from this time restriction the employment of a child as a lifeguard, employee of an arcade, or stage or theatrical performer; provides that a violation is a misdemeanor; provides civil penalties; requires employers to post an abstract of provisions related to compensation, wages, and hours. | 6/3/2025 | 10/01/2025 | Wage_and_Hour: Child_labor; Wage_and_Hour: Work_hours; |
| NV | Assembly | 112 | Sick Leave to Assist Family Members | Removes an exemption from provisions providing certain employees with the right to use sick leave to assist family members. | 6/5/2025 | | Leave_laws: Sick; |
| NV | Senate | 160 | Equal Rights Commission | Moves the State Equal Rights Commission to the Office of the Attorney General; requires the Commission to publish on its website a summary of the process to file an appeal with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; provides for attorneys, paralegals, and volunteer legal services; requires the Commission to make a final disposition of a complaint alleging an unlawful discriminatory practice in housing within a specified period; provides for the State Equal Rights Commission Gift Fund. | 6/5/2025 | | Government: Department/Agency; Prohibited_Practices: Discrimination; |
| NV | Assembly | 388 | Paid Family Leave | Requires certain public and private employers to establish certain procedures and forms relating to paid family leave; provides paid leave benefits to officers of the Executive Department of the State Government; entitles an employee to take paid family leave to bond with a newly placed foster child, for certain tasks related to adoption, to recover from pregnancy or pregnancy loss, and for certain purposes resulting from domestic violence, stalking, aggravated stalking, harassment or sexual assault. | 6/11/2025 | | Federal_Laws: FMLA; Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Domestic_violence; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Harassment; Leave_laws: Medical Leave_laws: Military Leave_laws: Paid_leave Leave_laws: Parental Leave_laws: Pregnancy Leave_laws: Pregnancy_loss Leave_laws: Safe Leave_laws: Sexual_assault Leave_laws: Stalking |
| NV | Assembly | 414 | Occupational Safety and Health | Requires a written safety program relating to a large hybrid environment facility to include provisions that require the establishment of a system to mitigate exposure to certain air quality issues and a system for monitoring employees for signs of health effects; requires a program to contain provisions which, among other things, require certain vehicles to have the engine turned off; exempts State agencies and certain employers who are engaged in law enforcement, firefighting, waste management, or towing. | 6/11/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Monitoring; Employer_Obligations: Policy_requirement; Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: Heat; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; |
| NV | Senate | 260 | Air Quality | Relates to employment; requires the Administrator of the Division of Industrial Relations of the Department of Business and Industry to adopt certain regulations prescribing requirements for certain employers relating to the exposure of certain employees to poor air quality from wildfire smoke in the workplace. | 6/11/2025 | 06/11/2025, 01/01/2026 | Employer_Obligations: Monitoring; Employer_Obligations: Training; Prohibited_Practices: Retaliation; Workplace_Behavior: Air_quality; Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: PPE Workplace_Behavior: Safety |
| NV | Senate | 182 | Staffing of Health Care Facilities | Requires certain hospitals to establish staffing committees for technical and service staff; establishes requirements governing the staffing of certain health care facilities; requires certain hospitals to keep certain records relating to staffing; requires certain hospitals to report certain information relating to staffing; prohibits certain health care facilities from taking certain retaliatory actions. | 6/12/2025 | | Employment_relations: Staffing; Industry: Hospitals; |
| NY | Assembly | 87 | Employers Agreements and Future Employment | Prohibits agreements between employers that directly restrict the current or future employment of any employee; allows for a cause of action against employers who engage in such agreements. | 1/8/2025 | | Agreements: Settlements; Employer_Obligations: Rehire; |
| NY | Assembly | 93 | Consumer and Employment Contracts and Arbitration | Prohibits mandatory arbitration agreements in consumer and employment contracts; repeals existing provisions prohibiting mandatory arbitration clauses in certain consumer contracts. | 1/8/2025 | | Agreements: Arbitration; |
| NY | Assembly | 166 | Securing Payment of Wages for Work Already Performed | Relates to securing payment of wages for work already performed; creates a lien remedy for all employees; provides grounds for attachment; relates to procedures where employees may hold shareholders of non-publicly traded corporations personally liable for wage theft; relates to rights for victims of wage theft to hold the ten members with the largest ownership interests in a company personally liable for wage theft. | 1/8/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Liens; Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; |
| NY | Assembly | 218 | Flexible Working Arrangements | Relates to flexible working arrangements; provides that employees may submit a request for flexible working arrangements in good faith; requires the employer to notify the employee of the decision; prohibits employers from retaliating against employees for exercising rights under the section. | 1/8/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Accommodation; Employer_Obligations: Flexible; Employment_relations: Work_schedule; Prohibited_Practices: Retaliation; |
| NY | Assembly | 244 | Employee of Paid Sick Leave | Requires every employer to provide each employee with the equivalent number of hours as three full work days for such employee of paid sick leave for a miscarriage or stillbirth of an infant born to the employee. | 1/8/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Pregnancy_loss; |
| NY | Assembly | 293 | Release of Any Claim By an Employee | Makes the release of any claim by an employee, or independent contractor who is a natural person, against an employer, unenforceable if, as a condition of such resolution, the employee or independent contractor is prohibited from applying for, accepting, or engaging in future employment with such employer, or any entity or entities related to such employer. | 1/8/2025 | | Agreements: Release; Agreements: Settlements; Employment_relations: Rehire; |
| NY | Assembly | 299 | Paid Family Leave Benefits | Requires public employers who opt out of providing paid family leave benefits to provide parental leave in the alternative at the same pay rate and amount of time as paid family leave. | 1/8/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| NY | Assembly | 365 | Employers Prevention Plans | Requires employers to keep their employees safe from exposure to extreme heat by implementing heat-related illness prevention plans. | 1/8/2025 | | Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: Heat; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; |
| NY | Assembly | 455 | Claim for Fraudulent Inducement | Establishes a claim for fraudulent inducement to enter into an employment relationship based on false promises as to wages, benefits, or intentions as to the duration of employment. | 1/8/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: False_statement; Employer_Obligations: Terms_and_conditions; |
| NY | Assembly | 479 | Colonoscopy Screening | Entitles employees 45 years of age or older to take one day off every ten years to undergo a colonoscopy. | 1/8/2025 | | Leave_laws: Colonoscopy; |
| NY | Assembly | 641 | Hotel and Motel Employees Sexual Harassment Training | Requires sexual harassment training for hotel and motel employees; requires operators to certify to the department that they have conducted sexual harassment training; provides such training every two years for employees; requires know your rights brochure and employee bill of rights. | 1/8/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Training; Employment_relations: Current_employees; Employment_relations: New_employee; Industry: Hospitality; Industry: Hotels; Prohibited_Practices: Sexual_harassment |
| NY | Assembly | 746 | Unpaid Leave of Absence | Establishes unpaid leave of absence as a reasonable accommodation under the state’s human rights law. | 1/8/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Accommodation; Leave_laws: Disability; Leave_laws: Pregnancy; Leave_laws: Unpaid_leave; |
| NY | Assembly | 791 | Sick Leave For Pets Care Act | Enacts the “sick leave for pets care act”; allows employees; receives paid sick leave for the medical diagnosis or treatment of such employees’ sick pets. | 1/8/2025 | | Leave_laws: Pet; |
| NY | Assembly | 816 | Parental Involvement Leave Act | Enacts the “parental involvement leave act” requiring employers to grant employees up to 24 hours leave during any school year to attend school conferences or classroom activities related to the employee’s child if the conference or activity cannot be scheduled during non-work hours; defines “employer” as any person or entity employing any individual in any occupation, industry, trade or business or service including any of the following: a state agency, office or department, a unit of local government. | 1/8/2025 | | Leave_laws: School; |
| NY | Assembly | 866 | Employee Status of an Individual | Relates to the employee status of an individual; establishes criteria for determining whether labor or services performed for remuneration qualify as employment. | 1/8/2025 | | Employment_relations: Employee; Employment_relations: Independent_contract; |
| NY | Assembly | 892 | Paid Vacation Time | Requires employers to provide paid vacation time which is based on the length of time employees have been employed by such employers. | 1/8/2025 | | Leave_laws: Paid_leave; Leave_laws: Vacation; |
| NY | Assembly | 1167 | Providing Hazard Payments To Essential Workers | Relates to providing hazard payments to essential workers during a state disaster emergency; provides that certain employers shall make hazard payments to essential workers during a state disaster emergency provided no hazard payment shall exceed twenty-five thousand dollars in any year for any essential worker earning less than two hundred thousand dollars per year or five thousand dollars for any essential worker earning more than two hundred thousand dollars. | 1/9/2025 | | Employment_relations: Essential_employees; Wage_and_Hour: Emergency_pay; Wage_and_Hour: Hazard_pay; |
| NY | Assembly | 1184 | Establishing Unlawful Discriminatory Practices | Relates to establishing unlawful discriminatory practices relating to models; requires models to be informed of what constitutes an unlawful discriminatory practice and how to file a complaint; requires modeling entities to provide adult models with educational materials regarding nutrition and eating disorders. | 1/9/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employment_relations: Models; Prohibited_Practices: Discrimination; |
| NY | Assembly | 1202 | Use of Accrued Sick or Vacation Time | Relates to use of accrued sick time, compensation time or vacation time. | 1/9/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| NY | Assembly | 1213 | Teleworking Expansion | Enacts the New York city teleworking expansion act; provides that each agency shall establish a policy and program to allow employees to perform all or a portion of their duties through teleworking to the maximum extent possible without diminished employee performance; defines the term telework to mean to perform normal and regular work functions on a workday that ordinarily would be performed at the agency’s principal location at a different location. | 1/9/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| NY | Assembly | 1267 | Essential Workers Bill of Rights | Establishes an essential workers’ bill of rights; provides that all employers shall provide essential workers with personal protective equipment, inform such workers of exposure to any disease related to a state disaster emergency, and not retaliate for any report of an unsafe work environment; provides certain employers shall make hazard payments and cover the costs of any child care or health care needed by such essential workers for the duration of the state disaster emergency. | 1/9/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Emergency_pay; Wage_and_Hour: Hazard_pay; Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: PPE; Workplace_Behavior: Person_protect_equip; Workplace_Behavior: Safety |
| NY | Assembly | 1289 | Salary Expectations Questions | Prohibits employers from asking job applicants about salary expectations; allows job applicants to request the included benefits for the position they are applying for. | 1/9/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Applications; Employer_Obligations: Wage_expectations; Employment_relations: Applicant; |
| NY | Assembly | 1320 | Uniform Employee and Student Online Privacy Protection | Relates to the uniform employee and student online privacy protection act; relates to the protection of employee and student online accounts. | 1/9/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Login_info; Employer_Obligations: Online_privacy; Prohibited_Practices: Online_privacy; |
| NY | Assembly | 1361 | Execution of Restrictive Covenant | Allows employers to request or require a prospective or current employee to execute a restrictive covenant not to engage in specified acts in competition with the employer after termination of the employment relationship as a condition of employment, continued employment, or with respect to severance pay. | 1/9/2025 | | Agreements: Non-compete; Agreements: Non-solicitation; Agreements: Restrictive_covenant; Agreements: Severance; |
| NY | Assembly | 1399 | Amount of Family Leave Time That May Be Taken in a Year | Increases the amount of family leave time that may be taken in a year. | 1/9/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Military; Leave_laws: Parental; |
| NY | Assembly | 1424 | Enforcement of Mandatory Arbitration Agreements Clauses | Prohibits the enforcement of mandatory arbitration agreements clauses and joint-action waivers with respect to workplace disputes; clarifies that section 7515 of the civil practice laws and rules applies retroactively to nullify pre-existing illegal mandatory arbitration clauses. | 1/9/2025 | | Agreements: Arbitration; |
| NY | Assembly | 1467 | Paid Family Leave for Stillbirth | Provides for paid family leave after a stillbirth. | 1/9/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bonding; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Parental; Leave_laws: Pregnancy_loss; |
| NY | Assembly | 1620 | Unlawful Discriminatory Practice Employee Liability | Relates to the liability of an employee committing an unlawful discriminatory practice; creates joint and several liability for employers and employees responsible for unlawful discriminatory practices. | 1/10/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Discrimination; Claims_and_Penalties: Employee_liability; Claims_and_Penalties: Employer_liability; Claims_and_Penalties: Joint_liability; Prohibited_Practices: Discrimination; |
| NY | Assembly | 1664 | Employee Use of Sick Leave | Allows employees to use dysmenorrhea as a reason for use of sick leave. | 1/10/2025 | | Leave_laws: Dysmenorrhea; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| NY | Assembly | 1808 | Unpaid Leave Allowance for Victims of Offenses | Requires employers to provide up to ten additional days of unpaid leave for absences when the employee or employee’s family member has been the victim of domestic violence, a family offense, sexual offense, stalking or human trafficking upon the employee’s request for reasons related to such offense or offenses. | 1/14/2025 | | Leave_laws: Domestic_violence; Leave_laws: Human_trafficking; Leave_laws: Sexual_assault; Leave_laws: Sick; Leave_laws: Stalking; Leave_laws: Trafficking_victim Leave_laws: Unpaid_leave |
| NY | Assembly | 1858 | Discrimination Based on Height or Weight | Prohibits discrimination on the basis of a person’s height or weight in opportunities of employment, housing, and access to public accommodations. | 1/14/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Height; Prohibited_Practices: Weight; |
| NY | Assembly | 1903 | Consecutive Hours of Work for Health Care Workers | Restricts consecutive hours of work for health care workers except in the case of certain emergencies and surgical procedures. | 1/14/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Work_schedule; Employment_relations: Health_care_worker; Employment_relations: Work_schedule; Industry: Health_care; Wage_and_Hour: Overtime; |
| NY | Assembly | 1940 | Paid Leave for Menstrual Complications and Menopause | Relates to providing four days of paid leave for menstrual complications and menopause. | 1/14/2025 | | Leave_laws: Menopause; Leave_laws: Menstrual_leave; |
| NY | Assembly | 1978 | Payment to Manual Workers | Requires employers to pay employees who are manual workers no less than semi-monthly; provides that there is no civil penalty against an employer by an employee who unknowingly violates such provisions; authorizes the commissioner to levy a civil penalty against employers who violate such provisions. | 1/14/2025 | | Wage_Payment: Pay_frequency; |
| NY | Assembly | 2107 | Employee Access to Personnel Records | Grants employees access to personnel records; requires notice of negative information in such records and an opportunity for a review; permits employee to include certain information in personnel records. | 1/15/2025 | | Employee_obligation: Request; Employer_Obligations: Notice; Employer_Obligations: Personnel_records; |
| NY | Assembly | 2175 | Leave of Absence for Victims of Domestic Violence | Provides for unpaid leave of absence for victims of domestic violence; permits victims of domestic violence to take an unpaid leave of absence for twenty days from employment to address on-going domestic violence; defines “address on-going domestic violence”; contains provision to protect the individual’s job position and benefits. | 1/15/2025 | | Leave_laws: Domestic_violence; Leave_laws: Safe; Leave_laws: Sexual_assault; Leave_laws: Stalking; Leave_laws: Unpaid_leave; |
| NY | Assembly | 2293 | Right of Public Employees and Organizations to Strike | Relates to the right of public employees and employee organizations to strike; repeals certain provisions relating thereto. | 1/16/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| NY | Assembly | 2489 | Paid Family Leave and Bereavement for Fetal Death | Relates to paid family leave and bereavement for fetal death, still birth, and an infant being medically not viable to survive. | 1/17/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bereavement; Leave_laws: Pregnancy_loss; |
| NY | Assembly | 2602 | Construction Employers | Regulates construction employers to keep their employees safe from exposure to extreme heat by implementing heat-related illness prevention plans. | 1/21/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Policy_requirement; Employer_Obligations: Training; Industry: Construction_service; Workplace_Behavior: Heat; |
| NY | Assembly | 3168 | Oil and Gas Drilling Workplace Safety Act | Enacts CJ’s Law; relates to Oil and Gas Drilling Workplace Safety Act; requires the enactment of rules and regulations for enhanced workplace safety and employee training for all oil and gas drilling operations in the state; provides that new permit holders should utilize union laborers or laborers with specific training; provides that employers shall report workplace accidents and the Commissioner of the Department of Labor must publish a quarterly report on workplace accidents. | 1/23/2025 | | Industry: Gas; Industry: Oil; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; |
| NY | Assembly | 3176 | Employee Whose Position is Eliminated | Provides that an employee whose position is eliminated for certain reasons and who is subsequently transferred to a different agency be entitled to the same hourly salary; retains all accrued sick leave; retain, cash out or use all accrued vacation time; Bes paid relocation expenses. | 1/23/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| NY | Assembly | 3193 | Discrimination Against a Person Based Upon Weight | Relates to prohibiting discrimination against a person based upon weight; excepts where deviation may pose a threat to the individual, other patrons, or the general public. | 1/23/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Weight; |
| NY | Assembly | 3202 | Customized Employment Demonstration Program | Establishes the customized employment demonstration program whereby certain positions are divided into sub-positions by the civil service commission to provide for employment of persons with developmental disabilities who are able to perform a portion of the duties of such position. | 1/23/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| NY | Assembly | 3389 | Safe Staffing Levels at Nursing Homes | Relates to safe staffing levels at nursing homes; requires the department of health; gives significant weight to labor supply shortages in particular regions during any declared statewide disaster emergency. | 1/27/2025 | | Employment_relations: Staffing; Industry: Nursing_homes; |
| NY | Assembly | 3482 | Civil Cause of Action for Employees | Establishes a civil cause of action for employees who are subjected to an abusive work environment; provides employers shall be vicariously liable for such work environment. | 1/28/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Constructive_dischar; Claims_and_Penalties: Employment_action; Claims_and_Penalties: Vicarious_liability; Employer_Obligations: Workplace_abuse; Employer_Obligations: Workplace_bullying; |
| NY | Assembly | 3527 | Regulation of Indoor and Outdoor Worksites | Provides for the regulation of indoor and outdoor worksites with temperature protection standards and education, training and reporting requirements to ensure that employers provide safe conditions for their employees. | 1/28/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Training; Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: Heat; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; |
| NY | Assembly | 3529 | Paid Family Leave for Bereavement | Authorizes paid family leave for bereavement beginning in 2027. | 1/28/2025 | | Leave_laws: Bereavement; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| NY | Assembly | 3568 | Collective Bargaining Agreement or Employment Contract | Provides that a collective bargaining agreement or employment contract shall not require that an emergency dispatcher employed by a municipality obtain approval from, or provide notice to, a supervisor to access mental or behavioral health care services. | 1/28/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| NY | Assembly | 3584 | Federal Electronic Employment Verification System | Prohibits employers from using the federal electronic employment verification system to check the employment authorization status of an existing employee or an applicant who has not been offered employment and prohibits municipalities from requiring employers to use the federal electronic employment verification system. | 1/28/2025 | | Employment_relations: E-verify; Employment_relations: Immigration_status; Employment_relations: Legal_work_status; |
| NY | Assembly | 3627 | Excused Absence of a Public Employee | Relates to excused absence of a public employee for mental health purposes. | 1/29/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| NY | Assembly | 3648 | Retaliatory Action by Employers | Prohibits retaliatory action by employers for the reporting of discrimination violations. | 1/29/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Discrimination; Prohibited_Practices: Retaliation; |
| NY | Assembly | 3732 | Unlawful Strikes by Public Employees | Relates to unlawful strikes by public employees; provides for the settlement of certain disputes; relates to terms and conditions of employment of certain transit and transportation authorities. | 1/30/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| NY | Assembly | 3914 | Automated Hiring Decision Tool Regulation | Establishes criteria for the use of automated employment decision tools; provides for enforcement for violations of such criteria. | 1/30/2025 | | Employment_relations: Employment_tool; |
| NY | Assembly | 3998 | Employee Access to Lactation Rooms in the Workplace | Relates to employee access to lactation rooms in the workplace; requires that employers post written policies regarding the rights of nursing employees. | 1/30/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Lactation; Employment_relations: Nursing_mothers; |
| NY | Assembly | 4148 | Standing Is Tiring Act | Enacts the Standing Is Tiring Act; requires employers; provides suitable seats to all employees where the nature of such employees’ work reasonably permits seated work; prohibits employers from artificially designing a workspace to require standing; requires the Department of Labor; determines whether the nature of work reasonably permits seated work; creates a private right of action for employees whose employer does not provide seats. | 1/31/2025 | | Workplace_Behavior: Ergonomics; Workplace_Behavior: Seating; |
| NY | Assembly | 1678 | Requirements for Retail Worker Employers | Updates requirements for retail worker employers when developing and implementing programs to prevent workplace violence; clarifies certain provisions of the Retail Worker Safety Act. | 2/4/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Policy_requirement; Employer_Obligations: Training; Employer_Obligations: Workplace_violence; Industry: Retail; |
| NY | Assembly | 4414 | Volunteer Firefighters Training | Allows volunteer firefighters to attend training required under 19 NYCRR 426 without being penalized by their employer; creates tax incentives for employing volunteer firefighters. | 2/4/2025 | | Leave_laws: Volunteer_responder; |
| NY | Assembly | 4629 | Number of Hours in a Work Week | Reduces the number of hours in a work week to thirty-two for employers with at least five hundred employees who are not part of a collective bargaining agreement. | 2/4/2025 | | Hours_worked: 32_hours; Wage_and_Hour: Overtime; |
| NY | Assembly | 4733 | Prevailing Wages for New York City Service Contracts | Requires prevailing wages for New York city service contracts to provide homecare services, day care services, head start services, services to persons with cerebral palsy, building services, food services or temporary services; removes references to living wage. | 2/6/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Prevailing_wage; |
| NY | Assembly | 4739 | State Employees Who Use a Computer | Requires state employees who use a computer to complete at least twenty-five percent of such employees’ required duties to undergo annual cyber security training. | 2/6/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| NY | Assembly | 4936 | Written Workplace Violence Prevention Program | Requires training to reduce abusive conduct and bullying in the workplace as part of a written workplace violence prevention program. | 2/10/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| NY | Assembly | 4996 | Employers of Domestic Workers | Requires employers of domestic workers to provide annual sick leave to such workers. | 2/10/2025 | | Industry: Domestic_service; Leave_laws: Sick; |
| NY | Assembly | 433 | Automated Employment Decision Making Tools | Relates to the disclosure of automated employment decision-making tools; requires the office of information technology services to maintain an artificial intelligence inventory; provides that the use of artificial intelligence systems shall not affect the existing rights of employees pursuant to an existing collective bargaining agreement, or the existing representational relationships among employee organizations or the bargaining relationships between the employer and an employee organization. | 2/12/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Artificial_intellige; Employment_relations: Discipline; Employment_relations: Employment_tool; Employment_relations: Hiring; Employment_relations: Promotion; Employment_relations: Recruitment Employment_relations: Termination Wage_and_Hour: Compensation |
| NY | Assembly | 2432 | Warehouse Worker Injury Reduction Program | Relates to the Warehouse Worker Injury Reduction Program; provides that an employer shall ensure that each job, process, shift or operation of work activity shall be addressed by its injury reduction program; provides that the employer shall have a written work site evaluation by a competent person; provides that a worksite evaluation must be reviewed by a certified ergonomist when an employee led workplace safety committee makes a written request. | 2/14/2025 | 02/14/2025 | Industry: Warehouses; Workplace_Behavior: Ergonomicts; Workplace_Behavior: Health; Workplace_Behavior: Musculoskeletal; Workplace_Behavior: Safety; |
| NY | Assembly | 1200 | Industry Workers Minimum Wage Requirements | Provides for minimum wage requirements for miscellaneous industry workers and to amend the tax law, in relation to establishing the one fair wage reimbursement credit; includes, but not limited to, car wash attendants, nail salon workers, tow truck drivers, dog groomers, wedding planners, tour guides, valet parking attendants, hairdressers, aestheticians, golf and tennis instructors, and door-persons. | 3/5/2025 | | Employment_relations: Food_service_worker; Employment_relations: Service_worker; Wage_and_Hour: Gratuities; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Tips; |
| NY | Assembly | 4278 | Rights Enforcement Worker Protection Act | Amends the labor law, in relation to enacting the Empowering People in Rights Enforcement (EMPIRE) Worker Protection Act; ensures the robust enforcement of the labor law, while minimizing the outlay of scarce state funds, this act allows private individuals, labor organizations, and labor organizations deputized by the state to bring public enforcement actions in certain contexts in which the state does not have the means to fully enforce labor law protection; relates to civil penalty. | 3/19/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Civil_action; Claims_and_Penalties: Private_attorney_gen; |
| NY | Assembly | 1697 | Farm Worker Meal Lodging | Relates to requiring farm worker meal and lodging minimum wage credits are adjusted for cost of living increases. | 3/26/2025 | | Employment_relations: Agricultural_employe; Industry: Agriculture; Wage_and_Hour: Lodging; Wage_and_Hour: Meals; |
| NY | Assembly | 1513 | Safe Staffing for Public Employees | Relates to safe staffing for public employees of institutional settings by setting maximum overtime levels. | 4/1/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| NY | Assembly | 1979 | State Employees | Provides notification of employment or promotion of applicable employees to organizations of state employees designated managerial or confidential for purposes of employee representation in determining the terms and conditions of employment. | 4/1/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| NY | Assembly | 51 | Child Care Employees and Opioid Antagonist Training | Amends the social services law and the public health law, in relation to requiring all employees of a child day care to be trained in administering an opioid antagonist. | 4/2/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Overdose_drug; Employer_Obligations: Training; Industry: Child_care; |
| NY | Assembly | 2456 | Low Wage Employees | Prohibits employers from requiring low-wage employees to enter into covenants not to compete; requires employers to notify potential employees of any requirement to enter into a covenant not to compete. | 5/5/2025 | | Agreements: Covenant_not_compete; Agreements: Non-compete; Employment_relations: Low_wage_employee; |
| NY | Assembly | 1316 | Use of Consumer Credit History | Prohibits the use of consumer credit history in hiring, employment and licensing determinations. | 5/12/2025 | | Prohibited_Practices: Credit_history; Prohibited_Practices: Credit_reports; |
| NY | Assembly | 1006 | Minimum Wage for Employees With Disabilities | Provides definition of employee that includes salesperson; provides the employment of learners and apprentices, under special certificates issued by the commissioner, at such wages lower than the minimum wage established by this article and subject to such limitations as to time, number, proportion and length of service as shall be prescribed in such regulation. | 5/22/2025 | | Employment_relations: Disabled_employee; Wage_and_Hour: Minimum_wage; Wage_and_Hour: Subminimum_wage; |
| NY | Assembly | 1253 | Discrimination Claim Settlements Reporting | Requires employers to annually report to the division of human rights the number of settlements with employees and other individuals performing services in the workplace regarding claims of discrimination on the basis of sex, including verbal and physical sexual harassment; provides for legal remedies for violations of the reporting requirement; requires the division of human rights to provide an annual report to the Governor and the legislature; makes conforming technical changes. | 5/30/2025 | | Agreements: Settlements; Employer_Obligations: Reporting_required; Prohibited_Practices: Sex; Prohibited_Practices: Sexual_harassment; |
| NY | Assembly | 3779 | Regulation of AI in Hiring Decisions | Restricts the use by an employer or an employment agency of electronic monitoring or an automated employment decision tool; screens a candidate or employee for an employment decision unless such tool has been the subject of an impact assessment within the last year; requires notice to employment candidates of the use of such tools; provides remedies for violations. | 6/5/2025 | | Employer_Obligations: Electric_monitoring; Employment_relations: Employment_tool; |
| NY | Assembly | 4036 | Employees of Not-for-Profit Theaters | Relates to prevailing wage requirement for not-for-profit theaters and payment of their employees on productions funded by the New York state council on the arts or arts agencies of localities; amends the arts and cultural affairs law, in relation to requiring that an organization applying for grant funding shall provide to arts agencies a certification that it will enter into a labor peace agreement with at least one bona fide labor organization under certain circumstances. | 6/6/2025 | | Industry: Non-profit; Industry: Theater; |
| NY | Assembly | 2222 | Provisions Relating to Payment of Wages | Amends provisions relating to payment of wages to include compensation that is not payable solely at the employer’s discretion; requires certain notices; expands enforcement provisions. | 6/9/2025 | | Claims_and_Penalties: Wage_claims; Employer_Obligations: Change_of_terms; Employer_Obligations: Notice; Wage_Payment: Wage_statement; |
| NY | Assembly | 4727 | Paid Family Leave Benefits | Extends paid family leave benefits to employees who perform construction, demolition, reconstruction, excavation, rehabilitation, repairs, renovations, alterations, or improvements for multiple employers pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement who shall be eligible for family leave benefits if they were employed for at least twenty-six of the last thirty-nine Weeks by any covered employer which is signatory to a collective bargaining agreement. | 6/11/2025 | | Industry: Construction_service; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
| NY | Assembly | 584 | Trapped at Work Act | Prohibits the use of employment promissory notes; provides that no employer may require, as a condition of employment, any worker or prospective worker to execute an employment promissory note; provides that the execution of an employment promissory note as a condition of employment is unenforceable, and any such note shall be null and void; provides that an employee who is sued by an employer seeking to enforce the provisions of such a note shall be able to recover attorneys fees upon a successful defense. | 6/12/2025 | | Agreements: Employment; Prohibited_Practices: Promissory_note; |
| NY | Assembly | 2747 | Construction Compensation at Prevailing Wage Rate | Relates to inclusion of certain offsite custom fabrication as public work for the purposes of payment of prevailing wage. | 6/17/2025 | | Wage_and_Hour: Prevailing_wage; |
| NY | Assembly | 2272 | Number of Consecutive Hours Worked by City Employees | Limits the number of consecutive hours worked by certain employees of cities of one million or more; provides that employees of cities of one million or more who are subject to a collective bargaining agreement shall not work more than 17 consecutive hours in a work day. | 9/8/2025 | | Industry: Public_employer; |
| NY | A | 584 | Trapped at Work Act | Prohibits the use of employment promissory notes; provides that no employer may require, as a condition of employment, any worker or prospective worker to execute an employment promissory note; provides that the execution of an employment promissory note as a condition of employment is unenforceable, and any such note shall be null and void; provides that an employee who is sued by an employer seeking to enforce the provisions of such a note shall be able to recover attorneys fees upon a successful defense. | 12/19/2025 | 12/19/2025 | Agreements: Employment; Prohibited_Practices: Promissory_note; |
| NY | A | 4727 | Paid Family Leave Benefits | Extends paid family leave benefits to employees who perform construction, demolition, reconstruction, excavation, rehabilitation, repairs, renovations, alterations, or improvements for multiple employers pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement shall be eligible for family leave benefits if they were employed for at least twenty-six of the last thirty-nine weeks by any covered employer which is signatory to a collective bargaining agreement. | 12/19/2025 | 12/19/2025 | Industry: Construction_service; Leave_laws: Family; Leave_laws: Medical; Leave_laws: Paid_leave; |
