Bill > H7290

This bill, known as the "Restrictions on Self-Service Checkout Stations Act," aims to regulate the use of self-service checkout stations in grocery stores, which are defined as businesses earning most of their income from selling groceries, including food, beverages, drugs, and household maintenance items. The act mandates that grocery stores cannot operate more than eight self-service checkout stations at any one time per location and must maintain at least one human-operated "manual checkout station" for every two self-service stations. Furthermore, it limits the workload of employees monitoring these self-service stations, stipulating that no more than two self-service stations can be monitored by a single employee at any given time, and that such employees must be relieved of all other duties while performing this monitoring. The Department of Labor and Training is empowered to create rules and penalties for enforcement, with fines for violations based on an hourly retail clerk's wage for each day of non-compliance, and employees are protected from retaliation for filing complaints. The act also allows consumers to file complaints and protects them from retaliation, with non-compliance after notice leading to further penalties.

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