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2012 WV Legislation of Interest

    February 10, 2012

     

    HB 2050- West Virginia Right to Work Law    

    HB 2092- Changing the definition of "construction" to only include projects whose total costs are more than $200,000 in the prevailing wage    

    HB 2094- Exempting certain construction projects performed on behalf of county or municipal governments from the prevailing wage laws    

    HB 2114- Providing an employee the right to decline to work more than forty hours in a workweek  

    HB 2165- Prohibiting project labor agreements on state-funded construction contracts    

    HB 2269- Giving the Insurance Commissioner the power to regulate and penalize self-insured employers    

    HB 2371- Relating to the West Virginia Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)    

    HB 2390- Providing that all employees have the right to review and copy the contents of their personnel file

    HB 2423- Establishing the West Virginia Voluntary Employee Retirement Accounts Program    

    HB 2664- Verifying legal employment status of workers    

    HB 2688- Authorizing the Governor to appoint an additional member to the Surface Mine Board that represents the interest of labor    

    HB 2734- Establishing prevailing hourly rates to be used in connection with the construction of public improvements    

    HB 2736- Exempting construction performed on behalf of educational authorities from prevailing wage requirements    

    HB 3015- The Healthy and Safe Workplace Act    

    HB 3210- Creating the Consumer and Employee Arbitration Fairness Act    

    HB 3262- Requiring persons engaged in natural gas horizontal well drilling activities to annually submit a report to the Department of Labor    

    HB 4040- Prohibiting employers and labor unions from requiring employees to become or remain members of labor unions as a condition of empl    

    HB 4366- Relating to safety and welfare of employees    

    HB 4422- Relating to crane operator certification    

    HB 4430- Relating to employee work breaks