HB 337

            
2020 SESSION

20102627D

HOUSE BILL NO. 337


Offered January 8, 2020


Prefiled January 1, 2020

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 2 of 
 Chapter 3 of Title 40.1 a section numbered 40.1-33.1, relating to prohibiting employers 
 from discriminating against employees for instituting proceedings for 
 nonpayment of wages.
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Patrons-- Price, Bagby, Delaney, Hope, Jenkins, Kory, Krizek, Levine,
Lindsey, Rasoul, Simon, Simonds and Willett


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Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
 
 
1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding in Article 
 2 of Chapter 3 of Title 40.1 a section numbered 40.1-33.1 as follows:
 
 
� 40.1-33.1. Discriminatory 
 actions prohibited.
 
 
A. An employer shall not discharge 
 or in any other manner discriminate against an employee because such employee 
 has filed any complaint or instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding 
 under � 40.1-29, or has testified or is 
 about to testify in any such proceeding.
 
 
B. Any employee who is 
 discharged or in any other manner discriminated against in a manner prohibited 
 by this section may file a complaint with the Commissioner, and the Commissioner, with the 
 written and signed consent of an employee, 
 may institute proceedings on behalf of an employee for appropriate remedies 
 for such action, including reinstatement of the employee and recovering lost 
 wages and an additional amount 
 equal to the lost wages as liquidated damages.