Bill > S270

This bill, the Protecting America's Meatpacking Workers Act of 2023, aims to improve protections for meatpacking workers. Key provisions include: restricting waivers to increase line speeds at meatpacking facilities without worker safety certification, requiring fair attendance policies that do not penalize workers for legally protected leave, establishing new occupational safety and health standards for meatpacking facilities, increasing OSHA inspections and enforcement, and reforming the Packers and Stockyards Act to address unfair practices by meatpackers. The bill also expands grant funding for meat and poultry processing facilities, restores mandatory country-of-origin labeling for beef and pork, and requires reports on the fragility of the meat and poultry supply chain and racial disparities in the industry.

Agriculture and Natural Resources

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/270/all-info