The 2011 session of the Virginia General Assembly has ended. Below is a summary of employment law legislation that passed both houses during the session.
HB 1705. Workers’ compensation; modifications to employee’s home and automobile
- Authorizes the Workers’ Compensation Commission, in awards entered for incapacity for work, to require the employer to furnish and maintain modifications to or equipment for the injured employee’s automobile
HB 1812. Workers’ compensation; occupational disease presumption for certain police officers.
- Adds police officers of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority and Norfolk Airport Authority to the list of public safety employees who are entitled to the presumption that certain infectious diseases are occupational diseases compensable under the Workers’ Compensation Act.
HB 1859. Public Procurement Act; state agencies to include in contract that contractor use E-Verify program.
- State agencies will be required to include in every contract over $50,000, a provision requiring the contractor to use the E-Verify program for employees who will be performing work under the contract within VA.
SB 823. Workers’ compensation; presumption that certain injuries are work related.
- A presumption is created that an injury is work related where an employee is physically or mentally unable to testify and there is unrebutted prima facie evidence that the injury was work related.