3.0.0 1896 2023-01-11T13:30:01Z 2023-01-11T13:30:01Z Senate S 2015-07-29 114 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2015-07-29T22:15:35Z Payroll Fraud Prevention Act of 2015 114 3427 HR 2015-11-16 Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. Related bill CRS 2015-07-29 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2015-07-29 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001070 Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] Bob Casey D PA N F000457 Sen. Franken, Al [D-MN] Al Franken D MN 2015-07-29 True M001111 Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA] Patty Murray D WA 2015-07-29 True W000817 Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA] Elizabeth Warren D MA A. 2015-07-29 True B000944 Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] Sherrod Brown D OH 2015-07-29 True M001176 Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] Jeff Merkley D OR 2015-07-29 True B001277 Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] Richard Blumenthal D CT 2015-10-06 False Labor and Employment Administrative law and regulatory procedures Department of Labor Employment discrimination and employee rights Government information and archives Government studies and investigations Labor standards Performance measurement Personnel records Tax administration and collection, taxpayers Unemployment Wages and earnings Labor and Employment 00 2015-07-29 Introduced in Senate 2015-10-26T20:53:45Z Payroll Fraud Prevention Act of 2015

This bill amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to require every person (including every employer and enterprise) that employs an employee or non-employee who performs labor or services, including through an entity such as a trust, estate, partnership, association, company, or corporation, to: (1) classify such individuals accurately as employees or non-employees; and (2) notify each new employee and new non-employee of his or her classification as an employee or non-employee, together with information concerning their legal rights.

Makes it unlawful for any person to: (1) discharge or otherwise discriminate against an individual (including an employee) who has opposed any practice, or filed a complaint or instituted any proceeding related to this Act, including with respect to an individual's status as an employee or non-employee; and (2) wrongly classify an employee as a non-employee.

Doubles the amount of liquidated damages for maximum hours, minimum wage, and notice of classification violations by an employer. Subjects a person who: (1) violates such requirements (including recordkeeping requirements) to a civil penalty of up to $1,100; or (2) repeatedly or willfully violates such requirements to a civil penalty of up to $5,000 for each violation.

Directs the Department of Labor (DOL) to establish a single webpage on the Department of Labor website that summarizes the rights of employees and non-employees under the FLSA and this Act.

Amends the Social Security Act to require, as a condition for a federal grant for the administration of state unemployment compensation, for the state's unemployment compensation law to include a provision for: (1) auditing programs that identify employers that have not registered under the state law or that are paying unreported compensation where the effect is to exclude employees from unemployment compensation coverage, and (2) establishing administrative penalties for misclassifying employees or paying unreported unemployment compensation to employees.

Requires any office, administration, or division of DOL to report any misclassification of an employee by a person subject to the FLSA that it discovers to the Department's Wage and Hour Division (WHD). Authorizes the WHD to report such information to the Internal Revenue Service.

]]> Payroll Fraud Prevention Act of 2015 Display Title Payroll Fraud Prevention Act of 2015 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to ensure that employees are not misclassified as non-employees, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Payroll Fraud Prevention Act of 2015 Introduced in Senate 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114s1896is/xml/BILLS-114s1896is.xml 2015-07-29 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.