Bill Text: MI HB5814 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Labor: other; pamphlet that describes the collective bargaining rights of employees; require the department to create and disseminate, and require employers to provide to employees. Amends 1939 PA 176 (MCL 423.1 - 423.30) by adding sec. 8a.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 43-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-24 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 02/23/2022 [HB5814 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2021-HB5814-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 5814
A bill to amend 1939 PA 176, entitled
"An act to create a commission relative to labor disputes, and to prescribe its powers and duties; to provide for the mediation and arbitration of labor disputes, and the holding of elections thereon; to regulate the conduct of parties to labor disputes and to require the parties to follow certain procedures; to regulate and limit the right to strike and picket; to protect the rights and privileges of employees, including the right to organize and engage in lawful concerted activities; to protect the rights and privileges of employers; to make certain acts unlawful; to make appropriations; and to prescribe means of enforcement and penalties for violations of this act,"
(MCL 423.1 to 423.30) by adding section 8a.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 8a. (1) Not later than 60 days after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section, the department of labor and economic opportunity shall do both of the following:
(a) Create a pamphlet, in digital and print forms, that describes an employee's rights under this act.
(b) Make the pamphlet created under subdivision (a) available to all employers.
(2) An employer shall do all of the following:
(a) Beginning on the date the pamphlet is made available to the employer under subsection (1)(b), provide the pamphlet to each new employee that the employer hires at the time the employee is hired.
(b) Not later than 60 days after the date the pamphlet is made available to the employer under subsection (1)(b), do both of the following:
(i) Provide the pamphlet to each of the employer's employees who is not a new employee as described in subdivision (a).
(ii) Post the pamphlet at each worksite of the employer in a conspicuous location that is accessible to all of the employer's employees at the worksite.
(c) Obtain a signed statement from each employee described in subdivision (a) or (b) that indicates the employee received the pamphlet.
