Bill Text: MO HB1279 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the Employment Advertisement Fairness Act which prohibits a person or entity from including in a job advertisement certain statements requiring an applicant to be currently employed

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-18 - Referred: Workforce Development and Workplace Safety (H) [HB1279 Detail]

Download: Missouri-2012-HB1279-Introduced.html

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SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1279

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES SMITH (71) (Sponsor), PACE, SWEARINGEN, WALLINGFORD AND MAY (Co-sponsors).

4931L.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To amend chapter 213, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to unfair employment advertisements.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Chapter 213, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 213.056, to read as follows:

            213.056. 1. There is hereby established the "Employment Advertisement Fairness Act".

            2. No employer, employment agency, labor organization, or their agent or representative shall publish in print or on the internet an advertisement for any job vacancy that contains one or more of the following:

            (1) Any provision stating or suggesting that the qualifications for a job include current employment;

            (2) Any provision stating or suggesting that the employer, employment agency, labor organization, or their agent or representative will not consider or review applications for employment submitted by a job applicant currently unemployed; or

            (3) Any provision stating or suggesting that the employer, employment agency, labor organization, or their agent or representative will only consider or review applications for employment submitted by job applicants who are currently employed.

            3. An employer who violates this section is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed five thousand dollars for the first violation and ten thousand dollars for each subsequent violation, collectible by the department of labor and industrial relations in a proceeding under rules adopted by the department.

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