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Committee weighs using S.230 as omnibus labor vehicle and orders lodging-deduction study questions
Summary
Members discussed making S.230 the omnibus labor vehicle (to include provisions on teachers, municipal-employee minimum-wage exemptions, and a mediator position), and debated a lodging-deduction study that might consider a separate farmworker lodging rate. Concerns centered on data availability and the possibility that a high lodging valuation could reduce net wages without tax offsets.
Chair (S1) told members that S.230 currently contains three sections — employee/teacher references, parental leave conforming language, and a provision barring forced retirement for college professors — and that the committee may use S.230 as an omnibus labor vehicle to incorporate other bills such as H.556 (municipal employees' minimum-wage exemption) and H.548 (mediator position).
Lodging-deduction study: The committee spent…
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