Article 1 General Provisions

This article is comprised of the following sections:
  • §40.1-22 Safety and Health Codes Commission continued as Safety and Health Codes Board
  • §40.1-22.1 Governor authorized to enter certain agreements
  • §40.1-23 Repealed
  • §40.1-26 Repealed
  • §40.1-27 Preventing employment by others of former employee
  • §40.1-27.1 Discharge of employee for absence due to work-related injury prohibited
  • §40.1-27.2 Preference for veterans and spouses
  • §40.1-27.3 Retaliatory action against employee prohibited
  • §40.1-27.4 Discipline for employee’s medicinal use of cannabis oil prohibited
  • §40.1-28 Unlawful to require payment for medical examination as condition of employment
  • §40.1-28.01 Nondisclosure or confidentiality agreement; provisions regarding sexual assault or sexual harassment; condition of employment
  • §40.1-28.1 Repealed
  • §40.1-28.5 Repealed
  • §40.1-28.6 Equal pay irrespective of sex
  • §40.1-28.7 Repealed
  • §40.1-28.7:1 Genetic testing or genetic characteristics as a condition of employment
  • §40.1-28.7:10 Prohibited use of employee’s social security number; civil penalty
  • §40.1-28.7:11 Veterans benefits and services poster
  • §40.1-28.7:2 Employers to allow crime victims leave to attend criminal proceedings
  • §40.1-28.7:3 Earned income tax credit; employer notice to employee
  • §40.1-28.7:4 Release of employee’s personal identifying information
  • §40.1-28.7:5 Social media accounts of current and prospective employees
  • §40.1-28.7:6 Employers to allow leave for volunteer members of Civil Air Patrol; civil remedy
  • §40.1-28.7:7 Misclassification of workers
  • §40.1-28.7:8 Covenants not to compete prohibited; exceptions; civil penalty
  • §40.1-28.7:9 Limiting employees’ sharing wage information with other persons prohibited; civil penalty