SB 1353 - Employment and Labor Omnibus

• Prohibits employers from requiring wage nondisclosure agreements, restricting wage discussions, or retaliating against employees for disclosing their wages or discussing coworkers' wages.

• Strengthens equal pay protections by requiring employers to prove wage differentials are based on seniority systems, merit systems, production quality, or bona fide factors unrelated to sex, with employees able to demonstrate alternative business practices exist.

• Establishes an equal pay certificate program requiring businesses with 40+ employees to obtain certification from the Industrial Commission of Arizona to contract with state agencies for projects exceeding $500,000.

• Creates flexible scheduling protections allowing employees to request changes in work hours, times, and locations, with employers required to engage in good faith discussion and grant requests for health conditions, caregiving, or education unless a bona fide business reason exists.

• Requires retail, food service, and cleaning employers to provide 14 days' advance notice of schedule changes, pay employees for minimum hours when called in, and compensate for short-notice schedule changes and split shifts.