| Fair Pay, Industry Bills, Minimum Wage
STATUS: Enacted
This bill prohibits wage theft in garment manufacturing by instituting hourly wage requirements and holds contractors, in addition to manufacturers, liable for violations.
Read More2023 | Retaliation, Workplace Harassment/Violence
STATUS: Enacted
Creates a rebuttable presumption that a negative action against an employee is retaliatory if it occurs within 90 days of reporting a labor or equal pay violation.
Read More2020 | Covid-19, Hazard Pay
STATUS: Enacted
Sedgwick County commissioners have approved hazard pay of $200 per month for county employees
Read More2008 | Fair Pay, Leave, Paid Family Leave
STATUS: Enacted
43:21-25 states that any individual elegible for benefits during a period of family temporary disability leave shall recieve 6 times their weekly benefit amount or one third of their total wages, whichever is lesser, under a private or state plan of disability benefits to care for a seriously ill or injured family member, or bond with a newborn, newly adopted or newly placed foster child for a maximum of twelve consecutive weeks in a calendar year. This bill was expanded in 2019 by A3975, which increased the paid leave to 12 weeks from July 1, 2020.
Read More2018 | Fair Pay, Leave, Minimum Wage, Paid Family Leave, Paid Sick Leave
STATUS: Enacted
An Act relative to minimum wage, paid family leave and the sales tax holiday.
Read More2019 | Workplace Harassment/Violence
STATUS: Enacted
Requires governmental entities to institute policies against sexual harassment, and where sexual harassment is determined to have occurred by a public official, allows the state to seek reimbursement or indemnification from the harasser.
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