The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
Subchapter
001
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GENERALLY
(Cite as: 3 V.S.A. § 909)
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§ 909. Access to new employees in bargaining unit
(a) An employer shall provide the employee organization that is the exclusive representative
of the employees in a bargaining unit with an opportunity to meet with each newly
hired employee in the bargaining unit to present information about the employee organization.
(b)(1) The meeting shall occur during the new employee’s orientation or, if the employer
does not conduct an orientation for newly hired employees, within 30 calendar days
from the date on which the employee was hired.
(2) If the meeting is not held during the new employee’s orientation, it shall be held
during the new employee’s regular work hours and at his or her regular worksite or
a location mutually agreed to by the employer and the employee organization.
(3) The employee organization shall be permitted to meet with the employee for not less
than 60 minutes.
(4) The employee shall be paid for attending the meeting at his or her regular rate of
pay.
(c)(1) Within 10 calendar days after hiring a new employee in a bargaining unit, the employer
shall provide the employee organization with his or her name, job title, worksite
location, work telephone number and email address, home address, personal email address,
home and personal cellular telephone numbers, and date of hire to the extent that
the employer is in possession of such information.
(2) The employee’s home address, personal email address, and home and personal cellular
telephone numbers shall be kept confidential by the employer and the employee organization
and shall be exempt from copying and inspection under the Public Records Act.
(d) The employer shall provide the employee organization with not less than 10 calendar
days’ notice of an orientation for newly hired employees in a bargaining unit. (Added 2019, No. 180 (Adj. Sess.), § 10, eff. Jan. 1, 2021.)