| RI | S0658 | Intro
25% | Provides for a registration process for private elevators to include a database of all private elevators to be maintained by the chief inspector.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
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| RI | S0660 | Intro
25% | Provides that certain public works renovation projects that include glazing work would have that work performed by North American contractor certification certified companies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
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| RI | S0663 | Intro
25% | Requires employer to furnish items and conditions of employment and a pay stub explaining how wages were calculated/reasons for deductions/allows the employee to file a court action against employer for violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
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| RI | S0662 | Intro
25% | Requires employers in the state with more than 50 employees to display a poster containing basic information on veterans' benefits and services which would be created and distributed by the DLT in consultation with the office of veterans services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
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| RI | S0665 | Intro
25% | Increases the wage amount for working prisoners, committed to the adult correctional institution, from three dollars ($3.00) a day to six dollars ($6.00) a day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
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| RI | S0659 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of administration to provide a list of certified minority and women-owned business enterprises to each prospective contractor of a construction project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
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| RI | S0661 | Intro
25% | Requires employer provide employee with written quota descriptions/number of task/item production along with potential adverse employment action for failure to meet quotas/ provides employee protection against quotas/ remedies for violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
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| RI | S0664 | Intro
25% | Establishes an occupational regulatory framework by authorizing the issuance of occupational licenses and government certifications by recognition for qualified worker applicants from other states.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
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| RI | S0422 | Intro
25% | Joint Resolution Ratifying The Proposed Amendment To The Constitution Of The United States Relating To The Labor Of Persons Under Eighteen Years Of Age (this Joint Resolution Would Ratify A Proposed Amendment To The Constitution Of The United States ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-01
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| RI | S0139 | Intro
25% | Includes siblings/grandchildren/care recipient for temporary caregiver benefits of 12 weeks/Increases weekly dependent's allowances from $10 to $20 or 7% of benefit rate whichever is greater. Effective January 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-01
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| RI | S0423 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the role of a workers' cooperative to allow it to operate as a hiring hall under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-01
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| RI | S0145 | Intro
25% | Increases the amount of parental or family leave available to an employee from thirteen (13) weeks to twenty-four (24) weeks in any two (2) calendar years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-01
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| RI | S0447 | Intro
25% | Protects the rights of employees in the workplace relating to free speech, assembly and religion as well as attendance at employer-sponsored meetings regarding political or religious matters
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-21
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| RI | S0426 | Intro
25% | Establishes new factors for the interest contract arbitration board for municipal employee unions, to consider in rendering a decision the board power to render an award over all negotiated matters, including the expenditure of money.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
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| RI | S0421 | Intro
25% | Requires the employer's workers’ compensation insurance carrier to cover all of an employee’s associated medical expenses from any adverse medical event resulting from the employer mandating that the employee receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
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| RI | S0427 | Intro
25% | Requires person who is considered an independent contractor to file a designation form by January 31 of each year and requires department of labor and training to provide a list of independent contractors to department of revenue by April 1 of each y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
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| RI | S0429 | Intro
25% | Amends the examination requirements for a hoisting engineers license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
To Senate Labor Committee |
| RI | S0428 | Intro
25% | Extends provisions of an existing collective bargaining agreement for municipal police arbitration purposes until a successor agreement is reached or an interest arbitration award is rendered.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
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| RI | S0424 | Intro
25% | Allows individuals employed in domestic service or in or about a private home to be included as an employee, for purposes of minimum wages law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
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| RI | S0430 | Intro
25% | Creates new definition for the term "employee", for purposes of wages, workers' compensation, temporary disability and unemployment insurance benefits, which deems a worker to be an employee, as opposed to an independent contractor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
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| RI | S0425 | Intro
25% | Provides identity theft protections by requiring reporting of breaches by certain municipal and state agencies, and requires notice to collective bargaining agents where required and requires an explanation of remediation services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
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| RI | S0144 | Intro
25% | Increases the minimum required awarded to minority business enterprises to 20% and of that, require a minimum of 10% be awarded to minority owned businesses and that a minimum of 10% be awarded to women owned businesses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
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| RI | S0137 | Intro
25% | Allows the presumption of in-the-line-of-duty illness unless contrary evidence is presented.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
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| RI | S0143 | Intro
25% | Increases the number of days a retired municipal employee could work in a calendar year without interruption of pension benefits to ninety (90) days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
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| RI | S0138 | Intro
25% | Increases the minimum hourly wage commencing January 1, 2028, by an amount equal to the total percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for the Northeast Region for the calendar year 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
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| RI | S0142 | Intro
25% | Senate Resolution Creating A Special Legislative Commission To Study And Review Rhode Island's Minimum Wage (creates An Eleven (11) Member Special Legislative Study Commission Whose Purpose It Would Be To Study Rhode Island's Minimum Wage, And Who Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
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| RI | S0140 | Intro
25% | Extends provisions of an existing collective bargaining agreement for municipal police arbitration purposes until a successor agreement is reached or an interest arbitration award is rendered.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
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| RI | S0141 | Intro
25% | Provides that all contractual provisions in a firefighters collective bargaining agreement continue until a successor agreement has been reached or an interest arbitration award has been rendered.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
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| RI | S0037 | Intro
25% | Sets the minimum wage at fifteen dollars ($15.00) per hour commencing January 1, 2024, and at twenty dollars ($20.00) per hour commencing January 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-18
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