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House advances bill changing wage, unemployment and workers' compensation rules; rulemaking provisions removed for revision
Summary
The Vermont House on a voice vote advanced S.117, a broad bill that removes expedited occupational safety rulemaking language, updates wage-and-hour and unemployment-notification rules, and adds workers' compensation provisions including medical case management and penalties for late payments.
S.117, a wide-ranging bill covering wage-and-hour, unemployment insurance and workers' compensation changes, moved forward in the Vermont House after committee reporters summarized amendments and members voted to propose the committee'recommended changes to the Senate and to order third reading.
The bill's sponsor in the House, Representative Patricia Bosch (member from Clarendon), told members the sections addressing expedited occupational safety rulemaking were removed so the Secretary of State's office and the Department of Labor could continue work on those provisions through the summer. "Concerns were raised about the expedited rule making process, so the first 4 sections of the bill that addressed that have been pulled," Bosch said.
Bosch and committee reporters described the remaining changes and why they matter. The bill codifies an existing wage-and-hour practice by directing the commissioner of labor, when an employer is found to have willfully withheld wages, to require payment of an…
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