Employee Rights Act

June 11th, 2021

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*Sen. FIameyyTickin has introduced the following article.*

*Be it enacted by the Senate of Scott in Congress assembled.*

**§1: LONG TITLE; SEVERABILITY; EFFECTIVE DATE**

a. This legislation may be cited as “Employees Rights Act”

b. If any part of this bill is struck down by the Senate, the remainder shall still stay in effect.

c. This legislation shall go into effect immediately upon passage of the State Congress, and

signage of the current Governor of the State of Scott.

**§2: Definitions**

A “Employee Rights Act” is defined as an Act to consolidate enactments relating to

employment rights.

The term “Law Enforcement Agency” shall refer to any of the

following:

(i) Rockhill County Sheriff's Office

(ii) Dandridge Police Department

(iii) Knoxville Police Department

(iv) Scott State Police

The term “Department” shall refer to any of the following:

(i) Scott Department of Justice

A “Government Position” shall refer to any of the following:

(i) Governor

(ii) Lieutenant Governor

(iii) Cabinet

(iv) Attorney General

(v) Chief Justice

(vi) State Senate

(vii) Any employment under State, County, or Municipal

Government

A “Member of the Judiciary” shall be considered to be any of the

following:

(i) A District Court Judge

(ii) A Supreme Court Judge

**§3: Documentation**

The following are employment restrictions, which no one,

employee or employer, should breach:

(i) A person can only be a member of one law enforcement

agency.

(ii) A person cannot hold more than two jobs.

(1) Any one job can only count as one, this only

applies if the connected job is given automatically

by law, for example if the Attorney General has a

position in the cabinet due to being Attorney General. Therefore it would only be

considered as one job.

(iii) A person cannot be more than one Department Head.

**§4: Employee Rights**

No citizen shall be denied employment except for the following

reasons:

(i) Lacking the relevant qualifications.

(ii) Crimes, Misdemeanor or Felony, currently on their

record.

(iii) Having a bad reputation in another department or any history of breaching department

policy within the previous four (4) months.

No employee shall be terminated except for the following

reasons:

(i) Illegality of employment.

(ii) Breaching department policy within

the previous month.

(iii) Breaching department policy within

the previous three months, but the event had only come

to light within the previous three weeks.

(iv) Inactivity or Incompetence.

(v) Crimes, Misdemeanor or Felony, committed since the

employment began.

(vi) Crimes, Misdemeanor or Felony, they have been

convicted by the courts, since the employment began.

(vii) If the department, organisation, company (public or

private) or law enforcement agency is being restructured,

and it can be proved any specific demotion or termination

is issued fairly, and without being specifically targeted

against one or more employees.

An Employee shall be entitled to take a leave of absence up to the length of one week,

without consequence. Employees may request no more than one leave of absence every

four weeks.

Any employer who by employing an employee, violates any part of the Employment

Rights shall be guilty of “Failure to Comply”.

**§5: Timeframe**

a. This bill shall go into effect immediately upon passage and signage by the Governor of

Scott.

**Chief Sponsor**

**Sen. FlameyyTickin**