In celebration of the Labor Day, the Kentucky House Democratic Caucus announced a multi-faceted slate of bills that members will file in 2024 to help working families.
The proposed legislation ranges from raising the minimum wage, which hasn’t changed since 2009, to restoring pro-union and other pro-worker measures that were in place for decades prior to being stripped away by Republican legislative super-majorities over the past six years.
A top priority is adding Kentucky to the growing list of states that have raised the minimum wage to at least $15 an hour. A related proposal would also give local communities the flexibility to raise the minimum wage in their jurisdiction.
Another would ensure all workers would be able to earn sick leave, while another would extend health-insurance coverage to a worker’s first day, if the job includes that coverage.
Other employee-driven bills would bar businesses from asking about felony status on initial job applications, enable workers who are victims of a crime to take time off to attend court proceedings and establish a statewide fairness law so workers would not be at risk of being fired because they are a member of the LGBTQ community.
“For more than 140 years, Labor Day has been a time to shine a spotlight on those men and women who literally built this nation into what it is today,” Kentucky House Democratic Caucus Leader Derrick Graham said. “We have come a long way since the late 1800s when comparing workplace gains, but...
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