Prohibits employers, including nonprofits, from conducting criminal history checks, credit checks, and drug testing of employees and prospective employees, unless there is a direct relationship between the information sought and the employee or prospective employee's job.

Prohibits employers, including nonprofits, from requiring employees to take parental and family leave for a compensable work-related injury or illness.

Expands access to unpaid family and medical leave; provides job-protected leave from employment for reasons related to domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, bereavement, and a qualifying exigency related to active duty service by a family member in the U.S. Armed Forces; covers employers with 10 or more employees working at least 30 hours per week, for purposes of bereavement leave, safe leave, and leave for a qualifying exigency; eliminates barriers to LGBTQ+ families in accessing caregiving leave; sets 12-week time limit for unpaid leave in any given year, and notice and documentation requirements for employees requesting leave; establishes privacy protections for employees invoking safe leave rights; broadens access to short-term family leave.

Expands access to unpaid family and medical leave; provides job-protected leave from employment for reasons related to domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, bereavement, and a qualifying exigency related to active duty service by a family member in the U.S. Armed Forces; eliminates barriers to LGBTQ+ families in accessing caregiving leave; sets notice and documentation requirements for employees requesting leave; sets 12 week time limit per year and privacy requirements for safe leave; broadens access to short-term family leave; establishes reporting requirement.

Requires Vermont colleges and universities to offer instate tuition for AmeriCorps members, exempts Segal AmeriCorps Education Awards from state taxes; enacts policy to provide hiring preference for AmeriCorps members for state employment vacancies, provides state education award matches; dedicates funds for AmeriCorps program development.

Increases the minimum wage to a livable wage of $18.60 per hour by 2026.

Establishes a 32-hour workweek by requiring employers to pay overtime for hours worked in excess of 32; exempts employees of hospitals, public health centers, nursing homes, maternity homes, therapeutic community residences, and residential care homes, but provides for overtime for work in excess of 64 hours per biweekly period; limits employment hours of children under 16 to not more than 32 hours per week; provides for accrual of sick leave by all employees at the rate of one hour per 41 hours worked; allows employees who are exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act to accrue earned sick leave for a 32-hour week.

Requires employers, including nonprofits, to pay out unused vacation leave upon an employee's separation from employment.

For business and nonprofit employers, increases minimum wage to $20 per hour; repeals exemption of agricultural workers from minimum wage laws; phases in overtime pay for agricultural workers; sets minimum salary to qualify as an executive, administrative, or professional employee for purposes of exemption from minimum wage and overtime laws; removes authority of Labor Commissioner to recommend a subminimum wage for individuals with disabilities; removes prospective repeal of the Attorney General's authority to investigate and enforce complaints of employee misclassification.

Reduces the number of exemptions from Vermont's minimum wage and overtime law; eliminates the tipped minimum wage; increases the minimum wage to $25 per hour by 2026, with annual inflation adjustment; requires that inmates in Vermont's correctional institutions be paid at least Vermont minimum wage; defines "employer" as any person that employs two or more employees.