3.0.0 2937 2022-10-28T01:46:11Z 2022-10-28T01:46:11Z Senate S 2019-11-21 116 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2019-11-21T19:13:49Z 2019-11-21 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2019-11-21 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S001194 Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI] Brian Schatz D HI N B001288 Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ] Cory Booker D NJ 2019-11-21 True H001075 Sen. Harris, Kamala D. [D-CA] Kamala Harris D CA D. 2019-11-21 True Labor and Employment Civil actions and liability Employment discrimination and employee rights Labor standards Worker safety and health Labor and Employment 00 2019-11-21 Introduced in Senate 2021-04-26T19:27:35Z Treating Workers with Dignity Act of 2019

This bill requires employers to compensate their employees for their meal, medical, and restroom breaks. Specifically, employers must compensate at prescribed rates employees who work a six-hour period for a 30-minute break to consume a meal. Additionally, employers must provide short-duration breaks to employees who have a documented medical condition and allow restroom breaks to their employees for every four-hour work period.

The requirements of this bill shall not supercede any provision in a collective bargaining agreement. The bill further provides legal or equitable relief for violations of its requirements.

]]> Treating Workers with Dignity Act of 2019 Display Title Treating Workers with Dignity Act of 2019 Short Title(s) as Introduced Treating Workers with Dignity Act of 2019 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to require employers to allow employees to take meal, medical, and restroom breaks, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s2937is/xml/BILLS-116s2937is.xml 2019-11-21 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.