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CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS' GENERAL
POWERS & DUTIES; EMPLOYMENT LAW
Legislation Carried Over to 2001
HOUSE BILL 220
Firefighters; overtime compensation for firefighters and emergency
medical technicians.
Patron: Vincent F. Callahan, Jr.
Summary: Requires firefighters, emergency
medical technicians, paramedics, ambulance personnel, rescue
workers, and hazardous materials workers to be paid overtime
at a rate of not less than one and one-half times the employee's
regular rate of pay for all hours of work in excess of 53 hours
in a seven-day work period or 212 hours in a 28-day work period,
or for work periods adopted between seven and 28 days, the number
of hours which bears the same relationship to 212 as the number
of days in the work period bears to 28. For purposes of computing
fire protection employees' entitlement to overtime compensation,
all hours in which an employee works or is in a paid status shall
be counted as hours of work. The bill provides for remedies for
violation.
HOUSE BILL 646
Virginia Human Rights Act; retaliation prohibited.
Patron: Roger J. McClure
Summary: Provides that retaliation against
a person who reports the misuse of funds by employees of a public
body or agency chartered or authorized by the Commonwealth shall
be prohibited where such retaliation includes unfounded charges
of unlawful discrimination. The bill defines "unfounded
charges" to include those made by the employee who was alleged
to have misused the funds or by someone who cooperates with the
employee in making the unfounded charges. The bill also provides
that nothing shall be construed to deny the person subject to
the unfounded charges of unlawful discrimination a private right
of action under Virginia Human Rights Act.
HOUSE BILL 1380
Discrimination prohibited.
Patron: Viola O. Baskerville
Summary: Prohibits discrimination in employment
on the basis of sexual orientation.
HOUSE BILL 1504
Virginia Civil Rights Act of 2000.
Patron: Viola O. Baskerville
Summary: Creating the Virginia Civil Rights
Commission.
HOUSE BILL 1527
Labor and employment; payment of wages by electronic funds transfer.
Patron: Brian J. Moran
Summary: Permits any employer of 20 or more
persons to require its employees to receive payment by electronic
funds transfer ("direct deposit"), where at least two-thirds
of the employees have elected to receive payment by that means.
Payment must be made in full by the date it is due, and the employer
has to develop an alternative to direct deposit for employees
who do not have an account at a financial institution.
SENATE BILL 200
Public safety; overtime compensation for fire protection and
law-enforcement employees.
Patron: Janet D. Howell
Summary: Requires firefighters and other fire
protection employees, including emergency medical technicians,
paramedics, ambulance personnel, rescue workers, and hazardous
materials workers to be paid overtime at a rate of not less than
one and one-half times the employee's regular rate of pay for
all hours of work in excess of 53 hours in a seven-day work period
or 212 hours in a 28-day work period, or for work periods adopted
between seven and 28 days, the number of hours which bears the
same relationship to 212 as the number of days in the work period
bears to 28. The bill also requires employers shall pay law-enforcement
employees overtime compensation at a rate of not less than one
and one-half times the employee's basis rate of pay for all hours
of work in excess of 43 hours in a seven-day work period or 172
hours in a 28-day work period, or for work periods adopted between
seven and 28 days, the number of hours which bears the same relationship
to 172 as the number of days in the work period bears to 28.
The bill provides for remedies for violation.
SENATE BILL 669
Creation of shared-cities.
Patron: Emmett W. Hanger, Jr.
Summary: Provides for the creation of shared-cities,
which shall have the powers, duties and responsibilities of a
town and shall retain such additional powers of the former city
as approved by the special court. The shared-city's legal relationship
with the surrounding county shall be governed by the same laws
that govern county-town relationships, except as modified by
the order creating the shared-city. The process to create a shared-city
may be initiated by a majority vote of the city council. Thereafter
the process mirrors that of the city reversion process, including
the appointment of a three-judge special court.
Note: It appears that the effect of becoming
a "shared city" would be to abolish the constitutional
offices in the former city, although the bill is not explicit
on this point.
Further Information
Alan Albert: 757/624-3055 (Norfolk), 804/697-1368 (Richmond)
E-mail: aalbert@maysval.com
Anne Leigh Kerr: 804/697-1465
E-mail: alkerr@maysval.com
(c) 2000 Virginia Association of Local Elected Constitutional
Officers.
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