HB4559: Food Worker Pay Standards Act
- 1Introduced (current step)
- 2Passed One Chamber
- 3Passed Both Chambers
- 4Became Law
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Summary
To require fair pay for workers employed by companies who provide meat, meat food products, poultry, poultry food products, and processed food to the Federal Government.
Plain-language summary
This bill would require companies that sell meat, poultry, or processed food to the federal government to pay their workers fairly, though the bill does not define specific wage amounts. The bill affects workers at private companies with federal food contracts. Fair pay standards would apply to employees who handle these products for companies doing business with the U.S. government. The bill was recently introduced in Congress and is currently in the early stage of the legislative process.
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HB4559: Food Worker Pay Standards Act