Volunteer Firefighter and EMS Personnel Job Protection Act
Official title: A bill to prohibit termination of employment of volunteer firefighters and emergency medical personnel responding to emergencies, and for other purposes.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13452-13453)
Volunteer Firefighter and EMS Personnel Job Protection Act - Prohibits any employee from being terminated, demoted, or discriminated against in the terms or conditions of employment because the employee is absent or late as a result of serving as a volunteer firefighter or providing volunteer emergency medical services as part of a response to an emergency or major disaster. Excludes absences for which the employee: (1) is absent for more than 14 days per calendar year; (2) responds to an emergency or major disaster without being official deployed in accordance with a coordinator national deployment system; or (3) fails to provide written verification within a reasonable period of time.
Allows employers to: (1) reduce the employee's regular pay for such time as the employee is absent; and (2) require the employee to provide written verification from the supervising Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), state, or local official that such employee responded in an official capacity at a specified time and date.
Requires such an employee to make a reasonable effort to notify his or her employer that he or she may be absent or late.
Gives such an employee a private cause of action for discrimination which violates this Act.
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2240: Volunteer Firefighter and EMS Personnel Job Protection Act. 110th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/110-S-2240/
"S. 2240: Volunteer Firefighter and EMS Personnel Job Protection Act." 110th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/110-S-2240/.
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