Bill > LB921

This bill enacts the Nebraska Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, requiring employers with 100 or more employees (excluding part-time workers) to provide 90 days' written notice to affected employees or their representatives and the Department of Labor before a "business closing" (permanent or temporary shutdown affecting 100+ employees) or "mass layoff" (reduction in force not due to a business closing, affecting 100+ employees at a single site within 30 days), with specific definitions for these terms and exceptions for strikes, lockouts, unforeseeable business circumstances, or natural disasters, and also establishes the Health Care Staffing Agency Registration Act, requiring agencies that provide temporary healthcare workers to register annually with the Department of Labor, pay a fee, and comply with requirements regarding worker qualifications, insurance, and contractual limitations, while also amending existing laws to modify unemployment benefit disqualifications for job interview failures, enhance protections for non-English-speaking workers by requiring interpreters and referral agents, grant the Governor broader authority through the Department of Labor, allow counties to file multiple claims for correctional institution incidents, and refine the process for investigating and appealing "in the line of duty" compensation claims for public safety officers, including new presumptions for certain injuries and illnesses.