2020 Senate Bill 1022

Coronavirus epidemic response bills – employee sick days

Introduced in the Senate

July 23, 2020

Introduced by Sen. Wayne Schmidt (R-37)

To authorize employee lawsuits against an employer who takes an “adverse employment action” or “retaliates” against an employee who is absent from work during the declared coronavirus epidemic emergency because the individual is "self-isolating or self-quarantining” in response to an elevated risk or diagnosis, and require employees who test positive for the disease or have symptoms to self-quarantine and not go to work, as specified in the bill.

Referred to the Committee on Economic and Small Business Development