Title: Employer Retaliation for Covid-19 Quarantine

Summary: Prohibits employer from taking retaliatory action against employee who takes leave of absence to quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19 & provides proof of positive test to employer; authorizes employee to use sick leave for such quarantine if sick leave is available to employee.

Full Text:
An act relating to employer retaliation for COVID 2 quarantine; creating s. 448.077, F.S.; prohibiting an employer from taking retaliatory action against an employee who takes a leave of absence to quarantine after testing positive for COVID and provides proof of the positive test to the employer; authorizing an employee to use sick leave for such quarantine if sick leave is available to the employee; defin ing the term "retaliatory action"; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Section 448.077, Florida Statutes, is created to read: 448.077 Retaliation for quarantine related to COVID 16 positive test prohibited.-An employer may not take retaliatory action against an employee for taking a leave of absence from the workplace for up to days to quarantine after testing positive for COVID if the employee provides proof of the positive test to the employer. If sick leave is available to an employee, the employee may use such leave for quarantining. For the purposes of this section, the term "retaliatory action" means an action such as dismissal, demotion, harassment, blacklisting with oth er employers, reducing pay or work hours, HB 1113 2022 or taking away company housing. Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.