State labor legislation enacted in 1999
Richard R. NelsonState labor legislation enacted in 1999 covered a wide variety of employment standards and included several significant laws.1 Minimum wage rates were increased in a number of States, major revisions were made to prevailing wage laws, garment industry regulation laws were strengthened, and additional States restricted door-to-door sales by children. Trends continued with laws adopted banning employment discrimination on the basis of genetic testing and sexual orientation and laws providing immunity from liability for providing information regarding a person’s job performance. Laws also were enacted in the emerging areas of regulating electronic surveillance in the workplace, providing leave to employees for participating in school-related activities, and permitting time off for victims of crime.
This article summarizes significant labor legislation passed in 1999. It does not, however, cover legislation on occupational safety and health, employment and training, labor relations, employee background clearance, and economic development. Articles on unemployment insurance and workers’ compensation appear elsewhere in this issue.
This excerpt is from an article published in the January 2000 issue of the Monthly Labor Review. The full text of the article is available in Adobe Acrobat's Portable Document Format (PDF). See How to view a PDF file for more information.
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1 The
Kentucky legislature did not meet in 1999. The District of Columbia,
Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Puerto Rico did not enact significant legislation in
the fields covered by this article. Information about Guam and the Virgin
Islands was not received in time to be included in the article, which is based
on information received by November 10, 1999.
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