Food Worker Pay Standards Act
Summary
Food Worker Pay Standards Act This bill prohibits the Department of Agriculture from purchasing any meat, meat food product, poultry, poultry food product, or processed food produced by workers in the United States who are compensated at a rate lower than the prevailing rate for wages and fringe benefits for such workers in their locality. The Department of Labor must determine the prevailing rates and in determining such rates shall take into account any applicable existing collective bargaining agreements in the locality. A prevailing rate established pursuant to this bill must not supersede a worker's wages and benefits agreed to in a collective bargaining agreement.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jul 2023
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Jul 11, 2023
Last action Aug 24, 2023
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
3
Key actions
0
Committee
2
Aug 24, 2023
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
lower
Jul 11, 2023
Committee
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
lower
Jul 11, 2023
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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