HB5586 Summary

• Requires employers to make the Department of Human Rights notice summarizing employment discrimination rights available to employees in their primary language if English is not their primary language.

• Allows the Department of Human Rights to provide the required notice in additional languages at the request of employers for a reasonable fee.

• Adds language protections prohibiting employers from restricting employees' use of their native language in communications unrelated to job duties.

• Expands harassment protections to cover nonemployees (contractors and consultants) performing services on employer premises, with enforcement beginning on the bill's effective date.

• Strengthens pregnancy-related protections by requiring reasonable accommodations for pregnancy and childbirth-related conditions unless accommodation would impose undue hardship on business operations.