‘Resolve, Directing the Workers' Compensation Board To Study the Issue of Addressing Psychological and Physical Harm to Employees Due to Abusive Work Environments’
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Session - 126th Maine Legislature C "A", Filing Number H-129, Sponsored by
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LR 1906 Item 2 |
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Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘Resolve, Directing the Workers' Compensation Board To Study the Issue of Addressing Psychological and Physical Harm to Employees Due to Abusive Work Environments’
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the title and before the summary and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1. Abusive work environments. Resolved: That the Workers' Compensation Board shall conduct a study on the issue of addressing psychological and physical harm to employees due to abusive work environments and report to the Joint Standing Committee on Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development by January 30, 2014 with recommendations and suggested implementing legislation based on the study; and be it further
Sec. 2. Authority to report out legislation. Resolved: That the Joint Standing Committee on Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development may report out a bill to the Second Regular Session of the 126th Legislature related to the recommendations of the Workers' Compensation Board submitted pursuant to section 1.’
summary
This amendment strikes the bill and replaces it with a resolve directing the Workers' Compensation Board to study the issue of addressing psychological and physical harm to employees due to abusive work environments and to report to the Joint Standing Committee on Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development with recommendations and suggested implementing legislation by January 30, 2014. The Joint Standing Committee on Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development is authorized to report out a bill related to these recommendations in the Second Regular Session of the 126th Legislature.