SB 5258-S.E - DIGEST |
(AS OF SENATE 2ND READING 2/13/19) |
Requires every hotel, motel, retail, behavioral health, custodial employer, or property services contractor who employs a custodian, security guard, hotel or motel housekeeper, or room service employee who spends a majority of his or her working hours alone or whose primary work responsibility involves working without another coworker present, at a location that is not his or her home, to: (1) Adopt a sexual harassment policy; |
(2) Provide mandatory training to the managers, supervisors, and employees; |
(3) Provide a list of resources for the employees to use; and |
(4) Provide a panic button to each worker that spends most of his or her working hours alone or whose primary work responsibility involves working without another coworker present, at a location that is not his or her home. |
Requires the department of labor and industries to publish advice and guidance for employers with fifty or fewer employees relating to the requirements mentioned above. |
Requires the director of the department of labor and industries to establish procedures for licensing property service contractors. |
Requires hotels and motels, with sixty or more rooms, to meet the requirements in this act by January 1, 2020, and other businesses by January 1, 2021. |