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MN HF2300

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/25/2014

Primary Sponsor

Carly Melin

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Origin

House of Representatives

88th Legislature 2013-2014

AI Summary

  • Defines "family caregiver" as a person who cares for another person related by blood, marriage, legal custody, or with whom they live in a familial relationship.

  • Prohibits labor organizations from discriminating in membership rights, expulsion, hiring, apprenticeship, or employment conditions based on status as a family caregiver.

  • Prohibits employers from refusing to hire, maintaining discriminatory employment systems, discharging employees, or discriminating in compensation and employment conditions based on family caregiver status.

  • Prohibits employment agencies from refusing to register, classify, or refer applicants for employment based on family caregiver status.

  • Prohibits employers, employment agencies, and labor organizations from requiring or requesting information about family caregiver status before employment or union membership, or from publishing discriminatory job notices.

Legislative Description

Employment discrimination based on status as a family caregiver prohibited.

Last Action

Authors added Clark, Newton, and Kahn

3/19/2014

Committee Referrals

Jobs and Economic Development Finance and Policy3/12/2014
Civil Law3/6/2014
Labor, Workplace and Regulated Industries2/25/2014

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