House Bill (HB) 500, which is to be heard in the House Small Business and Information Technology Committee Wednesday, would take away Kentucky workers’ rights to lunch and rest breaks at work and would eliminate pay protections, including for time spent traveling to and from a job site during work hours. It is an assault on longstanding basic rights and dignities on the job that will harm practically all Kentucky workers. Specifically, HB 500:

Repeals the requirement that employers provide a lunch break. Currently, businesses must provide a lunch break every three to five hours, but that right would be eliminated under HB 500. Instead, HB 500 says only that a worker required to keep working without a lunch break can’t be denied pay if they juggle eating something while on the job. However, if the employer does provide a lunch break and they discover a worker eating at another time while on the clock, they will not be required to pay them for that time — even a worker who needs a snack for medical reasons.

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Repeals the requirement that employers provide a rest break. Currently, employers must provide at least a 10-minute rest break for each four hours of work, in addition to a scheduled lunch period. HB 500 takes away that right.

Repeals the requirement that employees who work seven days in a row receive time-and-a-half overtime pay. Current law incentivizes employers to give workers a rest day to allow the opportunity for them to recover and spend time with their families, but that incentive would go away.

Eliminates employer liability for failure to provide proper pay for work time spent traveling between jobs and for time spent on certain activities associated with starting and wrapping up a job. Employers could not be punished for failing to provide minimum wages or overtime pay for travel to and from a work site and for activities that are in preparation for, or part of the wind-down from, a work activity — such as donning and doffing personal protective equipment in a hazardous work environment.

https://kypolicy.org/house-bill-500-...uts-their-pay/

What a bunch of dumb asses.

Looks like they are setting up to replace American workers with all the illegals coming in....cause no one will do the jobs!!1!

Wizard.
I was just thinking this.

U wot

KY going in dry on workers

At least you’re waking up to realize Republicans don’t give a sht about immigration either.

Edit: the sponsor of the Bill owns a landscaping company. You can’t make this sht up.

Stay poor tucky

Not surprised. Red states like Arkansas and Iowa are removing child labor laws because there aren't enough workers and the politicians have you idiots all believing immigrants are bad and are taking your jobs. So what to do? roll back the laws and let kids work. Remember.. a little kid getting injured on the job is better than a brown person working next to you!

R/P “conservatives” have two cookies, an immigrant has one - but they think the problem isn’t the person with a thousand telling them to hate the immigrant.

Sounds like work conditions in every restaurant and bar, and lots of other workplaces already.

Funny how all the conservatives posting here are taking the position this is a bad idea. While all the p3do enablers are acting like they are all for it. Just more proof liberal NPCs can't go against their programming.

Knew that long ago, thats why I voted Trump. The GOP is filth, especially both of their senators.

definitely came in to say this sounds like landscaping/roofers/etc...these policies would only work for a company like that.

Just popping in to say I'm extremely proud of you, OP. Your apostrophe placement demonstrated proper accuracy when using a plural possessive form in your title. I pegged you (no homo) as a chain smoking, monster drinking, rap listening, fat broad banging, Oakley wearing, Dorito eating, uneducated, rube. I apologize on that assumption.

Speaking of Brown people.. since every illegal is now "Brown".. Does this leftist retard know that the last report in NYC had about 2%...ONLY TWO PERCENT of the illegals there applying to work... LOOOOOOOOOOOL, stupid fuk.

It's kinda funny to watch the mental gymnastics concluding that the Republican Party presidential candidate for the last three elections isn't a Republican.

This fuking high school GED jet head retard. Read idiot (if you can)

https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/...new-york-city/

https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/pol...s-for-migrants

I caught what you did there.

"Undocumented immigrants[10] support economic growth, pay taxes, and keep our city and economy running as essential workers...."

Well gee, when you put it like that it just sounds awesome Pat!

I'm sure they're all on dat dere 1099 time and are more than happy to do their part for Ukraine every year too..

Either that or it's all bullshiit.

NYC mayor puts $12 billion cost on migrant crisis, blames ‘broken’ national immigration system
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/0...-cost-00110472

Mayor Adams unveils sweeping NYC budget cuts, blaming migrant crisis
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/adams-ny...migrant-crisis

This message is hidden because NYFAT has a useless, factless, nonsensical opinion.

I've never seen anybody take the (D) harder than him.

Look who still couldn't take a day off. And none of that has anything to do with what I posted. Congrats.

Inb4 you repeat yourself. Again.

Yes it does.

It proves you're full of shiit.

It doesn't. At all.

Mayor of NYC says illegals are bleeding the city dry AF Pat. Had to make big ass budget cuts to city services just to offset some of the costs of them Pat.

Happening all over the country too Pat.. Hospitals in Denver on the verge of financial collapse because of them Pat.

Denver hospital system may collapse due to migrant crisis: 'We are turning down patients'

https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/d...kers-resources

Want me to continue Pat?

Source?

It's not like the billforcesemployers to cut lunch hour, or pay.
They don't have to, so they might choose not to.

GOP voting Kentucky rednecks-tards will probably blame it on China and Illegals

Never the greedy capitalists' fault

Always something else

Thats capitalism, and most miscers love it this way!