Minimum wage and overtime pay; warehouse distribution center employees and employers, civil action.
Summary
Minimum wage and overtime pay; warehouse distribution center employees and employers; civil action; civil penalty. Providesthat (i) an employer that violates requirements in existing law relatingto the minimum wage, payment of wages and salaries, or overtime payor (ii) a warehouse employer, as defined in the bill, that violatesthe bill's provisions shall be liable to an impacted employee forcertain remedies, damages, and other relief as specified in the bill.The bill requires a warehouse employer to provide each warehouseemployee, as defined in the bill, a written description of each performancestandard to which such employee is subject and of any potential adverseemployment action that may result from such employee's failure tomeet such performance standard. The bill prohibits a warehouse employerfrom 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 warehouseemployers is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $5,000 for each violation.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2024
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 18, 2024
Last action Feb 5, 2024
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3
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Committee
1
Jan 18, 2024
Committee
Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
upper
Jan 18, 2024
Introduced
Presented and ordered printed 24105407D
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Jennifer Carroll Foy
DDemocratic
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