Fair Compensation for Low-Wage Contractor Employees Act of 2019
- Last Action
- 1/17/2019
Actions
- 2019-01-17Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, 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.
- 2019-01-17Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, 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.
- 2019-01-17Introduced in House
- 2019-01-17Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2019-01-17 (00)
Fair Compensation for Low-Wage Contractor Employees Act of 2019
This bill appropriates funding to provide compensation to certain employees of contractors who lost pay or leave due to the lapse in appropriations that began on December 22, 2018.
Each agency subject to such lapse shall adjust the price of any contract for which the contractor was ordered to suspend, delay, or stop work as a result of the lapse. The agency shall compensate the contractor for reasonable costs incurred to (1) provide compensation, at an employee's standard rate of compensation, to any employee who was furloughed or laid off, or who was not working, who experienced a reduction of hours, or who experienced a reduction in compensation, as a result of the lapse, for the period of the lapse; or (2) restore paid leave taken by any employee during the lapse, if the contractor required employees to use paid leave as a result of the lapse.
The maximum amount of weekly compensation of an employee for which an adjustment may be made may not exceed the lesser of the employee's actual weekly compensation or $965.
Cosponsors (20)
- ELEANOR NORTON (D-DC)
- Donald Beyer (D-VA)
- JANICE SCHAKOWSKY (D-IL)
- Ilhan Omar (D-MN)
- Robert Scott (D-VA)
- John Sarbanes (D-MD)
- Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ)
- Ben Luján (D-NM)
- Gwen Moore (D-WI)
- Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR)
- Joseph Kennedy (D-MA)
- Mark Pocan (D-WI)
- Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)
- BARBARA LEE (D-CA)
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)
- JERROLD NADLER (D-NY)
- Pramila Jayapal (D-WA)
- Lori Trahan (D-MA)
- Albio Sires (D-NJ)
- Gerald Connolly (D-VA)
Subjects
- Appropriations
- Contracts and agency
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Public contracts and procurement
- Wages and earnings
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