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<section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="3-1303" title_number="3" title_name="Employment Standards and Conditions" subtitle_number="13" subtitle_name="Healthy Working Families Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This subtitle does not apply to an employee who:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>regularly works less than 12 hours a week for an employer;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>is employed in the construction industry; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>is covered by a bona fide collective bargaining agreement in which the requirements of this subtitle are expressly waived in clear and unambiguous terms; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>is called to work by the employer on an as–needed basis in a health or human services industry;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>can reject or accept the shift offered by the employer;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>is not guaranteed to be called on to work by the employer; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>is not employed by a temporary staffing agency.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>For the purpose of subsection (a)(2)(i) of this section, an employee who is employed in the construction industry does not include an employee employed as:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a janitor;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a building cleaner;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>a building security officer;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>a concierge;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>a doorperson;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>a handyperson; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>a building superintendent.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, if a unit of State or local government’s sick leave accrual and use requirements meet or exceed the sick and safe leave provided for under this subtitle, employees of the unit of State or local government who are part of the unit’s personnel system are subject to the unit’s laws, regulations, policies, and procedures providing for:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>accrual and use of sick leave;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>grievances; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>disciplinary actions.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Employees of a unit of State government that are entitled to sick and safe leave under this subtitle and who are not covered by the unit’s sick leave and accrual and use requirements are subject to § 3–1308 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
