Labor & Employment (Employment Discrimination)

This resolution urges Congress to pass the Thiokol Memorial Gold Medal Act, which would award a Congressional Gold Medal to 30 workers who died in a 1971 explosion at the Thiokol plant in Woodbine, Georgia (plus one additional worker who died in 1973). It commemorates their service manufacturing military munitions during the Vietnam War and their role in advancing workplace safety and equal pay. The resolution itself is procedural and symbolic - it does not create new policy or funding, but formally requests Congress enact the medal bill.

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 51 of the Official Code of Georgia, relating to libel and slander, so as to prohibit individuals from bringing defamation actions against another individual who makes a communication regarding an incident of sexual assault, sexual harassment, or sex discrimination when that individual believed such incident to have occurred; to provide for attorney's fees and costs for a prevailing defendant; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

A BILL To be entitled an Act to amend Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to labor and industrial relations, so as to provide for a cause of action for workplace harassment and retaliation; to provide for definitions; to provide for certain facts to be determined at trial by a jury; to provide for an affirmative defense; to provide for a statute of limitations; to provide for relief and damages; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to sex discrimination in employment, so as to authorize the Commissioner of Labor to ensure that certain employees receive comparable pay for comparable work in jobs which require comparable skill, effort, and responsibility; to provide for powers and duties of the Commissioner; to provide for consent orders, administrative orders, hearings, penalties, and judicial review; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.