Bill > HB1600

Introduced Session

Leave for volunteer firefighters and emergency medical services providers. Requires private employers to allow volunteer firefighters and volunteer emergency medical services providers to take leaves of absence from their employment at times when the employee leaves work, or is late for work, due to the employee's providing emergency services as a volunteer firefighter or volunteer emergency medical services provider for or on behalf of, and within the scope of his duties with, his volunteer fire department, or is returning from providing such emergency services. This provision does not apply if the absence of employees from the place of employment reduces the number of employees remaining on the job or at work at such place of employment by 50 percent or more. The bill allows employers to treat such leaves of absence as unpaid leave. Employers are prohibited from requiring such employee to exhaust any other leave to which he is entitled prior to such leaves of absence. The bill provides that if such an employee fails to provide the employer, upon request, with verification from the chief or deputy chief of the employee's volunteer fire department that the employee was providing such services, or returning from providing them, during the time that the employee took a leave of absence, the employee shall not thereafter be entitled to take such leave.

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James Edmunds (R)*, 

Left in Labor and Commerce (on 02/11/2020)

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