Virginia All-On-One Labor Law Poster Updated

Reasonable Accommodations for Pregnancy

Virginia Human Rights Act

Covenants Not to Compete Prohibited

Job Safety and Health Protection

• Reasonable Accommodations for Pregnancy (Senate Bill 712) – Employers with five or more employees must provide reasonable accommodations for pregnancy, childbirth and related conditions, and may not take adverse action against an employee for requesting or using a reasonable accommodation.
• Virginia Values Act (Senate Bill 868) – Amends the Human Rights Act to include sexual orientation, gender identity, and veteran status to classes protected from discrimination in public and private employment, public accommodations, housing and credit transactions; expands the scope of employers subject to the Act’s nondiscrimination and unlawful discharge provisions.
• Covenants Not to Compete Prohibited (House Bill 480) – All employers are prohibited from entering into, enforcing or threatening to enforce a “covenant not to compete” agreement with a low-wage employee that restricts the employee’s ability, following termination, to compete with his or her former employer.
• Job Safety and Health Protection (§ 40.1-49.4) – Annual increase in penalty rates:
  • Serious violations – $13,277
  • Other-than-serious violations – $13,277
  • Failure to correct violations – $13,277/day
  • Willful or repeated violations – $132,764