| HB 0005 |
Oppose | Prohibit Employer From Using Salary History of New Job Applicant |
Park Cannon |
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1/16/2019 |
House Second Readers |
Industry and Labor |
- | - |
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| This legislation would prohibit an employer from using the salary history of a job applicant to determine their compensation. It would only apply to applicants that are not currently working for the employer in another position. |
| HB 0110 |
Neutral | Paying Employees - Employer has Discretion over Payment by Check |
Tom Kirby |
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4/2/2019 |
House Withdrawn, Recommitted |
Industry and Labor |
- | - |
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| Current law requires employers to pay employees by cash, check, credit transfer (with the consent of the employee) or by credit into payroll card account. This law allows the payment by check (upon the discretion of the employer. |
| HB 0116 |
Neutral | Increase the State's Minimum Wage |
Dewey McClain |
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2/6/2019 |
House Second Readers |
Industry and Labor |
- | - |
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| This legislation increases Georgia's minimum wage from $5.15 per hour to $15 per hour. It also stipulates that those employees that meet the eligibility requirements for the tip credit can credit tip toward the satisfaction of up to 50 percent of the minimum wage. |
| HB 0573 |
Evaluating | Minimum wage; wages and employment benefits by local government entities; revise certain provisions |
Spencer Frye |
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3/8/2019 |
House Second Readers |
Industry and Labor |
- | - |
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| HB 1010 |
Neutral | Cannot Discriminate Based on a Person's Hairstyle |
Kim Schofield |
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2/26/2020 |
House Withdrawn, Recommitted |
Judiciary |
- | - |
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| This legislation prohibits discriminating against persons due to their hairstyle, meaning braids, locks, twists or other textured hairdressing historically associated with an individual's race. |
| HB 1090 |
Neutral | Governments Must Provide Time and Location for Expressing Breast Milk - Worker's Compensation Benefit Changes |
Deborah Silcox |
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8/5/2020 |
Effective Date |
Health and Human Services |
Insurance and Labor |
- |
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| This bill requires all Georgia's state and local governments to provide paid break time of a reasonable duration to an employee who desires to express breast milk during work hours. Each government must provide a room or other location, other than a restroom, in close proximity to the employee's work area where the employee can express breast milk in privacy. The legislation also authorizes the Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Labor to revise "deductible earnings" (which will change how worker's compensation benefits are calculated); develop rules for revising benefits and their distribution during an emergency; and changes how benefits are calculated. |
| HB 1099 |
Oppose | Coroners - Provide a Hefty Raise and Treat as Constitutional Officers |
Danny Mathis |
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3/9/2020 |
House Second Readers |
Governmental Affairs |
- | - |
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| This legislation mandates pay raises for coroners. It first removes the current statutory restriction that there be only one deputy coroner and authorizes the coroner to set the deputy coroner's salary at one-half the coroner's salary, or at one-quarter of the coroner's salary plus a fee of $250 for each case worked. It then sets up a state-mandated base pay scale and throws in a substantial raise - similar to what's in statute for constitutional officers. This is in addition to the COLAs coroners have received commensurate to state employee pay increases. To boot, the office or coroner shall be a full-time position, and the county governing authority shall provide the coroner the same employment benefits it provides other constitutional officers. |
| SB 0046 |
Neutral | Increase Georgia's Minimum Wage |
Donzella James |
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2/5/2019 |
Senate Read and Referred |
- | Insurance and Labor |
- |
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| This legislation increases Georgia's minimum wage from $5.15 per hour to $15 per hour. Furthermore, starting January 1, 2021 and continuing forward, the minimum wage is adjusted upwards to reflect the increase in the cost of living, if any, determined by the Georgia Department of Labor. |
