Virginia Senate Bill 685 (Prefiled Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 18 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-05 - Continued to 2025 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
Pending: Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Minimum wage and overtime pay; warehouse distribution center employees and employers; civil action; civil penalty. Provides that (i) an employer that violates requirements in existing law relating to the minimum wage, payment of wages and salaries, or overtime pay or (ii) a warehouse employer, as defined in the bill, that violates the bill's provisions shall be liable to an impacted employee for certain remedies, damages, and other relief as specified in the bill. The bill requires a warehouse employer to provide each warehouse employee, as defined in the bill, a written description of each performance standard to which such employee is subject and of any potential adverse employment action that may result from such employee's failure to meet such performance standard. The bill prohibits a warehouse employer from taking adverse action against a warehouse employee for such employee's use of a bathroom facility. The bill provides that a warehouse employer that violates the bill's provisions relating to warehouse employers is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $5,000 for each violation.

Minimum wage and overtime pay; warehouse distribution center employees and employers, civil action.

Sen. Jennifer Carroll Foy [D]

2024-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2025 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-05	Senate	Continued to 2025 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
2024-01-18	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2024-01-18	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 24105407D

SB685 (Carry Over) 2024-02-05 - Continued to 2025 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	2751	(n/a)	See Bill Text
40	1	28.12	(n/a)	See Bill Text
40	1	29	(n/a)	See Bill Text
40	1	29.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
40	1	29.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
53	1	40.02	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?251+sum+SB685
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?251+ful+SB685+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?251+vot+S02C0060+SB0685