Bill > HR1864

Introduced Session

To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit certain practices by employers relating to restrictions on discussion of employees' and prospective employees' salary and benefit history, and for other purposes. This bill makes it unlawful for an employer to rely on the wage history of a prospective employee in considering the employee for employment; rely on the wage history of a prospective employee in determining the employee's wages (with an exception); seek from a prospective employee or any current or former employer the wage history of the employee (with an exception); or discharge or retaliate against any employee or prospective employee because that employee is opposed to any act or practice made unlawful by this bill, or has taken an action for which discrimination is forbidden.

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Eleanor Holmes Norton (D)*,  André Carson (D),  Steve Cohen (D),  Charlie Crist (D),  Rosa DeLauro (D),  Sylvia Garcia (D),  Sheila Jackson-Lee (D),  Ro Khanna (D),  Alan Lowenthal (D),  Carolyn Maloney (D),  Jerry Nadler (D),  Mark Pocan (D),  Lucille Roybal-Allard (D),  Tim Ryan (D),  Michael San Nicolas (D),  Jackie Speier (D),  Bonnie Watson Coleman (D), 

Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. (on 03/25/2019)

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