2020 Senate Bill 931

Coronavirus epidemic response bills – authorize anti-“retaliation” lawsuits against employers

Introduced in the Senate

May 20, 2020

Introduced by Sen. Jeremy Moss (D-11)

To authorize employee lawsuits against an employer who takes an “adverse employment action” or “retaliates” against an employee who is absent from work during the declared coronavirus epidemic emergency because the individual is "self-isolating or self-quarantining” in response to an elevated risk or diagnosis; or to take of someone else in this situation; or to take of children or other family members subject to institutional lockdowns (schools, day care, nursing homes, etc.); or because the individual can’t get to work in a private car with other members of the household.

Referred to the Committee on Economic and Small Business Development