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§ 40.1-22. Safety and Health Codes Commission continued as Safety and Health Codes Board - (1) The Safety and Health Codes Commission is continued and...
§ 40.1-22.1. Governor authorized to enter certain agreements - The Governor of Virginia is hereby authorized to enter into:...
§ 40.1-23. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1988, c. 340, effective January 1, 1989.
§ 40.1-26. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1979, c. 631.
§ 40.1-27. Preventing employment by others of former employee - No person doing business in this Commonwealth, or any agent...
§ 40.1-27.1. Discharge of employee for absence due to work-related injury prohibited - It shall be an unfair employment practice for an employer...
§ 40.1-27.2. Preference for veterans and spouses - A. As used in this section, unless the context requires...
§ 40.1-27.3. Retaliatory action against employee prohibited - A. An employer shall not discharge, discipline, threaten, discriminate against,...
§ 40.1-27.4. Discipline for employee's medicinal use of cannabis oil prohibited - A. As used in this section, "cannabis oil" means the...
§ 40.1-28. Unlawful to require payment for medical examination as condition of employment - It shall be unlawful for any employer to require any...
§ 40.1-28.01. Nondisclosure or confidentiality agreement; provisions regarding sexual assault; condition of employment - A. No employer shall require an employee or a prospective...
§ 40.1-28.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2005, c. 823, effective July 1, 2005.
§ 40.1-28.5. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2004, c. 608.
§ 40.1-28.6. Equal pay irrespective of sex - No employer having employees shall discriminate, within any establishment in...
§ 40.1-28.7. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1985, c. 421.
§ 40.1-28.7:1. Genetic testing or genetic characteristics as a condition of employment - A. No employer shall: 1. Request, require, solicit or administer...
§ 40.1-28.7:2. Employers to allow crime victims leave to attend criminal proceedings - A. As used in this section: "Criminal proceedings" means a...
§ 40.1-28.7:3. Earned income tax credit; employer notice to employee - Every employer shall post in the same location where other...
§ 40.1-28.7:4. Release of employee's personal identifying information - A. As used in this section, "personal identifying information" means...
§ 40.1-28.7:5. Social media accounts of current and prospective employees - A. As used in this section: "Employer" includes, in addition...
§ 40.1-28.7:6. Employers to allow leave for volunteer members of Civil Air Patrol; civil remedy - A. Any employee who is a volunteer member of the...
§ 40.1-28.7:7. Misclassification of workers - A. An individual who has not been properly classified as...
§ 40.1-28.7:8. Covenants not to compete prohibited as to low-wage employees; civil penalty - A. As used in this section: "Covenant not to compete"...
§ 40.1-28.7:9. Limiting employees' sharing wage information with other persons prohibited; civil penalty - A. No employer shall discharge from employment or take other...
§ 40.1-28.8. Short title - This article shall be known as the Virginia Minimum Wage...
§ 40.1-28.9. Definitions; determining wage of tipped employee - A. As used in this article: "Adjusted state hourly minimum...
§ 40.1-28.10. Minimum wages - A. 1. Prior to May 1, 2021, every employer shall...
§ 40.1-28.11. Penalties - Whoever knowingly and intentionally violates any provisions of this article...
§ 40.1-28.12. Employee's remedies - Any employer who violates the minimum wage requirements of this...
§ 40.1-29. Time and medium of payment; withholding wages; written statement of earnings; agreement for forfeiture of wages; proceedings to enforce compliance; penalties - A. All employers operating a business or engaging an individual...
§ 40.1-29.1. Investigations of employers for nonpayment of wages - If in the course of an investigation of a complaint...
§ 40.1-29.2. Employer liability - Any employer that violates the overtime pay requirements of the...
§ 40.1-29.3. Overtime for certain employees - A. As used in this section: "Carrier" means an air...
§ 40.1-30. Registration of certain nonresident employers with Department - (a) Any employer domiciled without this Commonwealth and performing any...
§ 40.1-31. Assignment of wages and salaries; requirements - No assignment, transfer, pledge or hypothecation of wages or salary...
§ 40.1-32. Partial assignments invalid - No partial assignment of wages shall be enforceable at law...
§ 40.1-33. Certain assignments not affected - The two preceding sections (§§ 40.1-31, 40.1-32) shall not be...
§ 40.1-33.1. Retaliatory actions prohibited; civil penalty - A. An employer shall not discharge, discipline, threaten, discriminate against,...
§ 40.1-33.2. Discriminatory actions prohibited - A. An employer shall not discharge or in any other...
§ 40.1-33.3. Definitions - As used in this article, unless the context requires a...
§ 40.1-33.4. Accrual of paid sick leave - A. All employees shall accrue a minimum of one hour...
§ 40.1-33.5. Use of paid sick leave - A. Paid sick leave shall be provided to an employee...
§ 40.1-33.6. Retaliatory action prohibited - No employer shall discharge, discipline, threaten, discriminate against, or penalize...
§ 40.1-34. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1974, c. 272.
§ 40.1-39. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1979, c. 354.
§ 40.1-40. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1985, c. 449.
§ 40.1-41. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1979, c. 354.
§ 40.1-44. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1973, c. 425.
§ 40.1-44.1. Rules and regulations relating to tramways and other hauling and lifting devices - (a) The Safety and Health Codes Board in the adoption...
§ 40.1-45. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1979, c. 354.
§ 40.1-49. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1973, c. 425.
§ 40.1-49.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1976, c. 607.
§ 40.1-49.2. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1979, c. 354.
§ 40.1-49.3. Definitions - For the purposes of §§ 40.1-49.4, 40.1-49.5, 40.1-49.6, 40.1-49.7, and...
§ 40.1-49.4. Enforcement of this title and standards, rules or regulations for safety and health; orders of Commissioner; proceedings in circuit court; injunctions; penalties - A. 1. If the Commissioner has reasonable cause to believe...
§ 40.1-49.5. Appeals to Court of Appeals - Appeals shall lie from the order of the circuit court...
§ 40.1-49.6. Same; attorneys for Commonwealth - A. In any proceeding pursuant to the enforcement of the...
§ 40.1-49.7. Same; publication of orders - The Commissioner of Labor shall be responsible for the printing,...
§ 40.1-49.8. Inspections of workplace - In order to carry out the purposes of the occupational...
§ 40.1-49.9. Issuance of warrant - Administrative search warrants for inspections of workplaces, based upon a...
§ 40.1-49.10. Duration of warrant - Any administrative search warrant issued shall be effective for the...
§ 40.1-49.11. Conduct of inspection, testing, or collection of samples for analysis - No warrant shall be executed in the absence of the...
§ 40.1-49.12. Review by courts - A. No court of the Commonwealth shall have jurisdiction to...
§ 40.1-49.13. Voluntary Protection Program - A. As used in this section: "Model system" means an...
§ 40.1-50. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1985, c. 449.
§ 40.1-51. State Health Commissioner to provide advice and aid; rules and regulations - A. The State Health Commissioner shall be responsible for advising...
§ 40.1-51.1. Duties of employers - A. It shall be the duty of every employer to...
§ 40.1-51.1:1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1979, c. 354.
§ 40.1-51.2. Rights and duties of employees - (a) It shall be the duty of each employee to...
§ 40.1-51.2:1. Discrimination against employee for exercising rights prohibited - No person shall discharge or in any way discriminate against...
§ 40.1-51.2:2. Remedy for discrimination - A. Any employee who believes that he or she has...
§ 40.1-51.3. Duties of health and safety inspectors - (a) It shall be the duty of all safety and...
§ 40.1-51.3:1. Penalty for giving advance notice of safety or health inspection under this title - Any person who gives advance notice of any safety or...
§ 40.1-51.3:2. Evidence of civil penalty against employer under state, federal, etc., safety codes inadmissible in personal injury or property damage trial - In the trial of any action to recover for personal...
§ 40.1-51.4. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1979, c. 354.
§ 40.1-51.4:1. Confidentiality of trade secrets - All information reported to or otherwise obtained by the Commissioner...
§ 40.1-51.4:2. Penalty for making false statements, etc. - Any person who knowingly makes any false statement, representation or...
§ 40.1-51.4:3. Prohibition of use of certain questions on polygraph tests for employment - No employer shall, as a condition of employment, require a...
§ 40.1-51.4:4. Prohibition of use of polygraphs in certain employment situations - A. As used in this section, the term "lie detector...
§ 40.1-51.4:5. Immunity of employees for reporting threatening conduct - A. Any employee who, in good faith with reasonable cause...