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Legislative Changes to Virginia Employment and Child Labor Laws


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Elevated Protections and Alternatives for Virginia Staff

It’s a win-win state of affairs for Virginians.”

— Secretary of Labor, Bryan Slater

RICHMOND, VA, USA, July 3, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — Efficient July 1, 2023, laws handed by the Basic Meeting throughout the 2023 session will go into impact, which alter current labor legal guidelines and create new protections for staff within the Commonwealth. These bi-partisan measures assist advance Governor Glenn Youngkin’s targets of accelerating Virginia’s financial system and retaining Virginians secure.

“In our effort to preserve Virginia as the highest place within the nation to dwell and work, these wise new legal guidelines create protections for arduous working Virginians, whereas strategically eradicating limitations to entry for sure profession paths,” stated Secretary of Labor Bryan Slater. “It’s a win-win state of affairs for Virginians.”

Youngsters Ages Sixteen Years or Older in Registered Apprenticeship to work in Sure Occupations:

Youngsters aged sixteen or older who’re registered apprentices could also be permitted to work in barbershops or cosmetology salons licensed by the Virginia Division of Skilled and Occupational Regulation’s Board for Barbers and Cosmetology, in accordance with the Board’s rules. Senate Invoice 1363 amends § 40.1-100 Code of Virginia to add this exemption.

Beneath § 40.1-100 Code of Virginia, sure employment for youth workers is prohibited or restricted. These limitations embrace the prohibition of any youngster underneath eighteen years of age from performing work “in any capability in getting ready any composition by which harmful or toxic chemical compounds are used.”

Details about Registered Apprenticeship applications might be obtained by contacting DOLI’s Division of Registered Apprenticeship at https://www.doli.virginia.gov/registered-apprenticeship/. Details about regulation and licensure underneath the Board for Barbers and Cosmetology might be obtained by contacting the Board Workplace at (804) 367-8590.

Employer Use of Worker Social Safety Numbers:

New laws limits employers from utilizing worker Social Safety numbers as figuring out info on sure employer-issued information. Senate Invoice 1040 amends the Code of Virginia to add § 40.1-28.7:10 which prohibits an employer from utilizing an worker’s Social Safety quantity, as an worker identification quantity or as a part of an identification card, entry card, badge, or another related employer-issued card.

The laws additionally delegates enforcement of the statute to the Commissioner of DOLI who will examine complaints by workers alleging improper use of their Social Safety quantity. Employers present in violation of the statute shall be topic to civil penalties for every violation discovered and doable circuit courtroom petitions for injunctive reduction.

Unpaid Organ Donation Depart:

The Commonwealth, its businesses, and political subdivisions should give eligible workers unpaid organ donation depart underneath Virginia regulation. Senate Invoice 1086 provides 40.1-33.7–40.1-33.12 to the Virginia Code. These legal guidelines require employers to give eligible workers up to 60 enterprise days of unpaid organ donation depart and 30 enterprise days of bone marrow donation depart.

Workers should have labored at the very least 12 months and 1,250 hours within the yr prior to the depart interval. Workers should present written doctor verification of donation and medical necessity. An worker’s use of unpaid organ donation depart doesn’t break steady service for advantages accrual or well being profit plan continuation. Workers can’t be retaliated for exercising their organ donation rights.

The DOLI Commissioner now enforces unpaid organ donation depart. DOLI will examine worker complaints of statutory rights violations and mediate between employer and worker. Civil penalties might apply to violating employers. Virginia Transplant Council dba Donate Life Virginia can reply questions on residing organ donation at (866) 823-6667.

Minimal Wage Exemption Eliminated for Sure Staff with Disabilities:

Protection prolonged to staff underneath the Virginia Minimal Wage Act will probably be amended by Home Invoice 1924. This laws amends the present exemption underneath § 40.1-28.9 Code of Virginia for any one that is paid pursuant to 29 U.S.C. §214(c) of the Truthful Labor Requirements Act of 1938, as amended. People employed underneath Part 14(c) Certificates issued by america Division of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division will not be exempt from the Virginia Minimal Wage Act if such certificates was issued on or after July 1, 2023. People employed underneath certificates issued prior to July 1, 2023 will proceed to be exempt from the Virginia Minimal Wage Act pending the second enactment of Home Invoice 1924 on July 1, 2030.

Stephen Clausing
Virginia Division of Labor and Trade
+1 804-786-6359
Stephen.Clausing@doli.virginia.gov
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