human resources and labor law

Purpose 

Ensure Oklahoma employers are competing on a level playing field with other states when it comes to the laws and regulations they have to comply with, particularly in the area of employment law.  

2019 Legislative Initiatives

• Support stronger regulations that require unemployed individuals to actively be looking for work in order to collect unemployment compensation benefits

• Support statutory penalties for unemployment compensation fraud that parallel those for workers’ compensation fraud 

• Oppose all statutory mandates, either state or federal, as they relate to employer/employee relationships

• Oppose all efforts to force businesses to provide paid leave above what is currently required by federal law

• Support business protections and property owners' rights regarding medical

• Support business and property owners’ rights to regulate the possession of weapons on their property 

• Oppose efforts to lower the small business exemption from 50 to 25 or fewer employees

• Oppose efforts to divert unemployment compensation trust money to pay for family medical leave

• Support the “mirroring” of federal law on wage and hour laws

• Oppose any federal or state legislative or regulatory measures that will interfere with an employer’s and employee’s freedom to contract, including efforts to pass the Arbitration Fairness Act

• Support the Society for Human Resource Management’s recommended reforms of the Fair Labor Standards Act

• Support efforts to allow an employer to pay overtime only when an 80-hour bi-weekly work schedule is exceeded

• Oppose any attempt to limit the definitions of “exempt employee” or otherwise expand employee eligibility for overtime

• Support allowing employers the option of granting compensatory time in lieu of payment for overtime  
   

Medical Marijuana and the 2019 Legislative Session Issue Brief
Medical Marijuana Fact Sheet (2018)
Issue Brief: Right To Work (2017)
2016 Accountability for a Competitive Economy (ACE) Book