FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT

Bills and resolutions

Business and industry: ensure that employees are not misclassified as non-employees (see H.R. 6189), H5506 [21JN]

Corporations: prohibit large employers from buying back stock unless employees are paid above a certain amount and allowed to earn paid sick leave, and no executive earns more than 150 times median employee pay (see S. 3640), S7050 [15NO] (see H.R. 7145), H9567 [16NO]

Dept. of Labor: clarify definition of employee relative to direct sellers under Fair Labor Standards Act (see H.R. 7029), H9414 [2OC]

——— prohibit employers from requiring workers to enter into non-compete covenants and require employers to notify potential employees of any requirement to enter into such covenants (see S. 2782), S2485 [26AP]

——— provide increased labor law protections for agricultural workers (see S. 3131), S4369 [25JN] (see H.R. 6230), H5748 [26JN]

——— provide protections for employees receving tips by ensuring that all tips are the property of the employee and not the employer (see H.R. 5180), H1441 [6MR]

Employment: prohibit forced arbitration in employment disputes (see S. 3615), S6964 [14NO] (see H.R. 7109), H9460 [30OC]

——— require that individuals who perform work for employers as independent contractors be treated as employees relative to civil rights laws (see H.R. 4972), H974 [7FE]

Immigration: create a fund for construction of continuous wall along southern U.S. border, redirect amounts from foreign aid penalties and certain fees to such fund, and increase Border Patrol salaries and overtime (see H.R. 6657), H7747 [7AU]

Minimum wage: provide consequences to States that reduce their State minimum wage and redirect Federal funding to those States to the neediest localities (see H.R. 7374), H10510 [20DE]

Remarks in House

Civil rights: improve remedies for discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex (H.R. 1869), E428 [10AP]

Employment: require that individuals who perform work for employers as independent contractors be treated as employees relative to civil rights laws (H.R. 4972), E153 [7FE]

Minimum wage: increase (H.R. 15), E916 [26JN]

Remarks in Senate

Civil rights: improve remedies for discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex (S. 819), S2029 [10AP]

Dept. of Labor: provide protections for employees receving tips by ensuring that all tips are the property of the employee and not the employer, S1274 [28FE]

Reports filed

TSA LEAP Pay Reform Act: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate) (S. 1896), S6438 [2OC]