Labor And Industry


Cabinet for Economic Development, Kentucky Entertainment Commission, establishment

Certified living wage, establishment

City, contractor preference, project workforce agreement, wages, local ordinance

City ordinance, prevailing wage, permissive establishment

Civil Air Patrol members, employment protections

Commonwealth Retirement Savings Plan, private employer Roth IRA, establishment

Covenant not to compete, restrictions

Crime victims, leave from employment

Crime victims, leave from employment for investigative and court proceedings

Department of Workers' Claims, reorganization

Disorders excluded from the ADA, disqualification for educational certificates

Earned paid sick leave provided by employers, requirement

Education and Labor Cabinet, unemployment insurance, electronic option

Employee benefits, unpaid family care leave

Employees, independent contractors, classification and misclassification

Employer vaccine mandate, medical or religious exception, notice of exemptions

Employers, ghost job posting, prohibition

Employers, mandatory posting of veterans' benefits document

Employment discrimination, protections against, weight

Employment discrimination, requirement of criminal history on job applications, prohibition

Family medical leave, state employees

Governor's recommended State/Executive Branch Budget

Health care, worker safety, workplace violence, reporting

KCTCS Prison Education Program, Department of Corrections, establishment

Kentucky State Building and Construction Trade Council, Trades Day at the Capitol, recognition

Labor Lobby Day, recognition

Labor organizations, limitations on membership, removal

Local governments, board of education, collective bargaining, prohibition

Local governments, minimum wage, option to establish

Manufacturing, preferences for materials made in the United States

Misclassification of employees, construction industry, E-verify requirement

Occupational health and safety of employees, violation penalties, increase

Occupational safety and health, violation, penalties, Osha, establishment

Outdoor nature-based early learning and child-care program, licensure requirements

Portable benefit plans, self-employed workers, employer contributions

Prevailing wage, public works, establishment

Professional membership dues, individual income tax deduction

Public employees, labor organizations, collective bargaining, rights and privileges

Sexual orientation and gender identity, prohibition of discrimination

State employees, paid maternity leave

State minimum wage, increase

State/Executive Branch Budget

Unemployment compensation, workers displaced by domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking

Unemployment insurance, fraud referrals

Unemployment insurance, waiting period, elimination

Unemployment insurance, work search activities

Unemployment insurance, work search activities, exemptions

Union and professional membership dues, individual income tax deduction

Unlawful employment by unauthorized alien, prohibition

Wages or wage range, employers to include in any job posting, transparency

Wages, requirement to pay living wage

Welders, requirements for structural steel welding

Work schedules, advance notice to employees, requirements

Workers' compensation, illegal substances, proximate cause of injury

Workers' compensation, presumption of nonwork-relatedness, exception

Workers' compensation, specified employees, psychological injuries

Workplace policy, right to disconnect during nonworking hours, penalty for violation

Workplace safety, emergency action plan

Wrongful discharge, collection of lost wages


Last updated: 3/11/2026 6:52 PM (EDT)