An act relating to classifying incarcerated individuals as temporary State employees

Summary

The bill would treat any person in a Vermont prison who does work for the Department of Corrections as a temporary state employee while they are performing that labor. This status would extend wage‑hour protections, workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and the right to collective bargaining to those incarcerated workers. The change aims to give them the same employment safeguards that other state workers receive.

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