A Just Society: The Uplift Our Workers Act
Latest action · Nov 19, 2020 Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedNov 13, 2019
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
A Just Society: The Uplift Our Workers Act
This bill requires an employer to be scored on worker-friendliness before entering into a federal contract and establishes a contracting preference for such score.
Specifically, each executive agency shall ensure that (1) contracting officers consider the score at least approximately equal in importance to cost or price, and (2) an offeror for a prime contract does not subcontract with any entity that violates specified labor laws and executive orders.
The Department of Labor, in coordination with the Office of Management and Budget, shall, among other things
- develop a method to score the worker-friendliness of each prospective contractor or subcontractor that submits a bid for a federal contract that takes into account specified factors, such as whether the employer provides paid overtime for any work that exceeds 40 hours per work week;
- provide each executive agency with recommendations on how to evaluate such a score in making contracting decisions;
- identify best practices for the implementation of the scoring process;
- create a process for an employer to appeal a score;
- review each score every five years to ensure that such score is up-to-date; and
- enable employers that are not federal contractors to request such a score for purposes of promoting worker-friendly policies.
Cosponsors 6
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Nov 13, 2019.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Original | Nov 13, 2019 |
| D-CA | Grace F. Napolitano | Original | Nov 13, 2019 |
| D-NY | Grace Meng | Original | Nov 13, 2019 |
| D-IL | Jesús G. "Chuy" García | Original | Nov 13, 2019 |
| D-MI | Rashida Tlaib | Original | Nov 13, 2019 |
| D-TX | Sylvia R. Garcia | Original | Nov 13, 2019 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 19, 2020Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- Nov 13, 2019Introduced in House
- Nov 13, 2019Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Government Operations and Politics.
- Congressional oversight
- Employee benefits and pensions
- Employment discrimination and employee rights
- Government information and archives
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government studies and investigations
- Labor standards
- Labor-management relations
- Public contracts and procurement
- Wages and earnings
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Nov 13, 2019Introduced in House
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