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Kentucky Allows Medicinal Use of Cannabis

Kentucky has enacted legislation (Senate Bill 47) that will allow adults to use medicinal cannabis for certain medical conditions beginning in 2025. The law also addresses employers’ rights regarding medicinal cannabis.

Kentucky expands leave entitlement for adoptive parents

Kentucky has enacted legislation (House Bill 210) that amends and expands a state law that requires employers to provide leave to employees who adopt a child.

Kentucky to require COVID-19 plan

Kentucky has enacted legislation (House Bill 1) that would require employers to create and post a plan for COVID-19 if they wish to provide in-person services. House Bill 1 was set to take effect immediately after the legislature overrode a veto by the governor, but a court temporarily blocked the implementation of the law while a legal challenge from the governor is heard.

Kentucky employers must be represented by counsel in unemployment compensation hearings

Non-lawyers may no longer represent employers in unemployment compensation hearings in Kentucky, the Kentucky Court of Appeals has ruled. Nichols v. Kentucky Unemployment Commission, et al., No. 2017-CA-001156-MR, 2019 Ky. App. LEXIS 73 (Ky Ct. App. Apr. 26, 2019).

Kentucky Adopts Pregnant Workers Act

Kentucky employers must provide reasonable accommodations to employees who are limited due to pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions, unless it would impose an undue hardship on the employer to do so.

New Occupational License Tax for the County of Perry, Kentucky

Effective January 1, 2017, the county of Perry, Kentucky enacted a new 1.00% Occupation License Tax (OLT). The TotalSource code is #1769 and this tax is on all wages and compensation paid or payable in the county for work done or services rendered by both residents and non-residents in Perry County.

State Poster- The Kentucky Safety and Health Protection

Kentucky Safety and Health Protection was revised to include new employer reporting requirements for all work-related hospitalizations, amputations and losses of an eye.

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