2009 Legislative Session

Human Resource/Employee Bills

2/20/2009

 

H.B. 2103 --  provides for a comprehensive drug and alcohol free program for miners

 

H.B. 2113 -- provides overtime pay for all employees who are required to work holidays regardless if the holiday hours are in excess of a 40-hour workweek

 

H.B. 2236 -- makes the use of permanent replacements for striking workers an unfair labor practice by employers who have employee stock ownership plans

 

H.B. 2247 – establishes that an employee has the right to decline to work more than 40 hours in any one workweek

 

H.B. 2248 -- requires employers to pay nurses at their regular rate of pay for all the time they are on-call on the employer's premises

 

H.B. 2259 – establishes the drug free mine act

 

H.B. 2272 -- establishes the Flexible Leave Act and allows for the use of earned leave with pay for an illness in an employee's immediate family

 

H.B. 2289 – changes the amount a person can earn while receiving unemployment compensation benefits, without it changing the benefits received, from $60 a week to 40 percent of the person's weekly benefit rate.

 

H.B. 2300 -- excludes certain employment-related expenses from the definition of gross income for purposes of determining child support.

 

H.B. 2355 – removes certain exceptions in the definitions of "employer" and "employee" covered by the West Virginia minimum wage law.

 

H.B. 2377 – provides for the adequate staffing of nursing homes and training of nursing home staff

 

H.B. 2411 - requires that workplace fatalities be reported to the Division of Labor

 

H.B. 2416 – relates to worker's compensation benefits to volunteer firefighters for cardiovascular or pulmonary diseases or a cardiovascular injury.

 

H.B. 2425 - requiring employers to provide health insurance to employees working on public improvement projects.

 

H.B. 2430 – relates to workers' compensation coverage for certain employees who perform duties attendant to racing activities

 

H.B. 2441 – strengthens the protections for whistleblowers of unsafe working conditions in mines

 

H.B. 2454 – establishes added unlawful discriminatory practices; prohibiting discrimination based upon age and sexual orientation

 

H.B. 2478 – requires that workers on public improvement projects valued at $1 million or more be covered by health care insurance

 

H.B. 2678 -- provides for the payment of unemployment compensation when a person misses work due to domestic violence