SB 2770
Mississippi Workplace Safety Act; enact.
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Bill overview
An act to enact the mississippi workplace safety act; To define relevant terms; To prevent inspectors authorized under the occupational safety and health administration OR other applicable law to select a nonemployee representative except under certain circumstances; To provide requirements for hiring acceptable nonemployee representatives; To provide relief for aggrieved employers; To allow employers to assert violations of this act IN judicial OR administrative proceedings; To institute a fine for a knowing violation of this act; To prohibit use of sovereign immunity as an affirmative defense IN any action pursuant to this act; To note that this act is severable; To provide for judicial decisions naming this act invalid, unduly burdensome, OR unconstitutionally vague; To allow the legislature and the governor to intervene as a matter of right IN any case where the constitutionality of this act is challenged; And for related purposes.
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