2025 bills / H.B. 544
H.B. 544 Worker Protection Modifications (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee (stopped here)
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
The bill would bar employers from forcing workers to attend meetings or listen to the employer's views on religious or political matters, with some exceptions, and let affected workers seek a remedy. It would also require employers to take heat and cold safety precautions, keep related injury records, disclose and keep records on work quotas, and bar retaliation against workers who ask for records or complain to the Labor Commission.
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Official description
- defines terms
- prohibits an employer from compelling an employee to attend a meeting or listen to communication of an employer's opinion about a religious or political matter
- provides exceptions to the prohibition
- provides a remedy for an employee who is compelled to attend a meeting or listen to communication of an employer's opinion about a religious or political matter
- requires an employer to:
- implement heat risk precautions and cold risk precautions
- implement recordkeeping requirements pertaining to heat stoke, hypothermia, frostbite, or temperature-related fatalities
- notify employees with a written description of quotas, adverse actions that may result for failing to obtain a quota, and incentives for meeting a quota
- provide data pertaining to quotas to a requesting employee
- implement recordkeeping requirements pertaining to quotas
- maintain a workplace safety program for managing risks related to the temperature of the worksite
- provides standards for tracking quotas
- prohibits retaliation against an employee who requests records or files a complaint with the Labor Commission (commission)
- provides for commission enforcement
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