| VA | SB1 | Veto | Minimum wage. Increases the minimum wage from the current rate of $12.00 per hour to $13.50 per hour effective January 1, 2025, and to $15.00 per hour effective January 1, 2026. The bill satisfies a reenactment clause included in Chapters 1204 and 12...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB259 | Veto | Civil actions filed on behalf of multiple persons; class actions. Provides that one or more members of a class may, as representative parties on behalf of all members, bring a civil action or may be proceeded against in a civil action, provided that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB494 | Veto | Overtime for certain employees; live-in domestic workers. Adds individuals who are employed in domestic service in a household and reside in such household to provisions related to overtime pay.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB370 | Veto | Prohibiting employer seeking wage or salary history of prospective employees; wage or salary range transparency; cause of action. Prohibits a prospective employer from (i) seeking the wage or salary history of a prospective employee; (ii) relying on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB391 | Pass | Employee protections; medicinal use of cannabis oil. Amends the provision that prohibits an employer from discriminating against an employee for such employee's lawful use of medical cannabis oil, with certain exceptions, by specifying that such use ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0674) |
| VA | SB374 | Intro
Sine Die | Collective bargaining by public employees; labor organization representation. Repeals the existing prohibition on collective bargaining by public employees. The bill creates the Public Employee Relations Board, which shall determine appropriate barga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB360 | Engross
Sine Die | Covenants not to compete; health care professionals; civil penalty. Adds health care professionals as a category of employee with whom no employer shall enter into, enforce, or threaten to enforce a covenant not to compete. The bill defines "health c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Defeated by Senate (11-Y 28-N 1-A) |
| VA | SB485 | Intro
Sine Die | Employee protections; employer-sponsored meetings on political matters; civil action. Prohibits an employer from retaliating against an employee (i) because such employee declines to attend or participate in an employer-sponsored meeting or receive a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB685 | Intro
Sine Die | 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, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB685 | Intro
Prefile | 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, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB485 | Intro
Prefile | Employee protections; employer-sponsored meetings on political matters; civil action. Prohibits an employer from retaliating against an employee (i) because such employee declines to attend or participate in an employer-sponsored meeting or receive a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB91 | Intro
Sine Die | Paid sick leave; home health workers providing agency-directed services. Requires employers to provide paid sick leave to home health workers who provide agency-directed services. Under current law, employers are only required to provide paid sick le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB91 | Intro
Prefile | Paid sick leave; home health workers providing agency-directed services. Requires employers to provide paid sick leave to home health workers who provide agency-directed services. Under current law, employers are only required to provide paid sick le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB623 | Intro
Sine Die | Collective bargaining by firefighters and emergency medical services providers. Authorizes firefighters and emergency medical services providers employed by a political subdivision of the Commonwealth to engage in collective bargaining through labor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB507 | Intro
Sine Die | Paid sick leave; health care providers and grocery store workers. Requires employers to provide paid sick leave to health care providers and grocery store workers. Under current law, employers are only required to provide paid sick leave to certain h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB507 | Intro
Prefile | Paid sick leave; health care providers and grocery store workers. Requires employers to provide paid sick leave to health care providers and grocery store workers. Under current law, employers are only required to provide paid sick leave to certain h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB623 | Intro
Prefile | Collective bargaining by firefighters and emergency medical services providers. Authorizes firefighters and emergency medical services providers employed by a political subdivision of the Commonwealth to engage in collective bargaining through labor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB185 | Intro
Sine Die | E-Verify program. Requires every employer to enroll in the E-Verify program by January 1, 2025, and to use the program for each newly hired employee who is to perform work within the Commonwealth. Under current law, only state agencies and certain em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB529 | Intro
Sine Die | Employee protections; medicinal use of cannabis oil. Amends the provision that prohibits an employer from discriminating against an employee for such employee's lawful use of cannabis oil pursuant to a valid written certification issued by a practiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
Incorporated by Rehabilitation and Social Services |
