This bill modifies the Utah Labor Code.
This bill:
- defines terms;
- prohibits an employer from compelling an employee to attend a meeting or listen to communication of an employer's opinion about a religious or political matter;
- provides exceptions to the prohibition;
- provides a remedy for an employee who is compelled to attend a meeting or listen to communication of an employer's opinion about a religious or political matter;
- requires an employer to: implement heat risk precautions and cold risk precautions; implement recordkeeping requirements pertaining to heat stoke, hypothermia, frostbite, or temperature-related fatalities;notify employees with a written description of quotas, adverse actions that may result for failing to obtain a quota, and incentives for meeting a quota;provide data pertaining to quotas to a requesting employee;implement recordkeeping requirements pertaining to quotas; andmaintain a workplace safety program for managing risks related to the temperature of the worksite;
- provides standards for tracking quotas;
- prohibits retaliation against an employee who requests records or files a complaint with the Labor Commission (commission); and
- provides for commission enforcement.