3.0.0 1000 2023-01-11T13:36:32Z 2023-01-11T13:36:32Z Senate S 2017-05-01 115 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2017-05-01T22:24:23Z Protecting America's Workers Act 115 914 HR 2017-02-07 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Related bill CRS Protecting America's Workers Act 115 2621 S 2018-03-22 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Related bill CRS 2017-05-01 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2017-05-01 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress F000457 Sen. Franken, Al [D-MN] Al Franken D MN N M001111 Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA] Patty Murray D WA 2017-05-01 True B000944 Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] Sherrod Brown D OH 2017-05-01 True W000817 Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA] Elizabeth Warren D MA A. 2017-05-01 True M000133 Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] Edward Markey D MA J. 2017-05-01 True Labor and Employment Administrative law and regulatory procedures Administrative remedies Business records Civil actions and liability Congressional oversight Criminal procedure and sentencing Department of Labor Employment discrimination and employee rights Evidence and witnesses Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management Government information and archives Government studies and investigations Inflation and prices Intergovernmental relations Judicial review and appeals Labor-management relations Legal fees and court costs Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission State and local government operations Wages and earnings Worker safety and health Labor and Employment 00 2017-05-01 Introduced in Senate 2017-11-03T17:08:12Z Protecting America's Workers Act

This bill amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA) to increase the scope of the Act by applying its coverage to federal, state, and local government employees. However, the bill makes OSHA inapplicable to working conditions covered by the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977.

The bill revises requirements governing worker protection, including by:

  • increasing protections for whistle-blowers as well as employees participating in or aiding inspections;
  • directing employers to furnish a hazard-free place of employment to all individuals, not just employees;
  • requiring the posting of employee rights concerning protection from retaliation;
  • requiring site logs of employees' work-related injuries and illnesses, including those of employees of other employers and contractors;
  • directing employers to report work-related deaths or hospitalizations;
  • prohibiting employers from discouraging accurate record keeping and reporting of work-related injuries or illnesses;
  • requiring the Department of Labor to investigate an incident in the workplace that results in the death of an employee or one that results in the hospitalization of two or more employees;
  • establishing rights for victims, or representatives of victims, with respect to inspections or investigations of work-related bodily injuries or deaths;
  • setting the permitted period for employers to correct serious, willful, or repeated violations while citations for the violations are being contested;
  • increasing civil and criminal penalties for certain violations;
  • expanding enforcement requirements relating to state occupational safety and health plans, including by allowing Labor concurrent enforcement authority in states where the state plans fail to meet minimum requirements; and
  • expanding requirements for workplace health hazard evaluations by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
]]> Protecting America's Workers Act Display Title Protecting America's Workers Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to expand coverage under the Act, to increase protections for whistleblowers, to increase penalties for high gravity violations, to adjust penalties for inflation, to provide rights for victims or their family members, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Protecting America's Workers Act Introduced in Senate 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s1000is/xml/BILLS-115s1000is.xml 2017-05-01 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.