SECTION I: NAME
1. This act shall be referred to as the "Woke Worker Protection Act".
SECTION II: WORKER PROTECTIONS
1. Any employer subject to regulation under the Fair Labor Standards Act shall be responsible for ensuring that areas provided to employees to express breast milk shall be kept sanitary. No prison or jail employer shall prohibit employees from possessing a breast pump within their workspace. 29 USC 207(r)(1)(B) shall be amended accordingly.
2. Any employer subject to regulation under the Fair Labor Standards Act that pay an hourly wage and call-in employees to work partial shifts on an unscheduled day shall guarantee either a minimum shift of four (4) paid hours or an elevated wage rate equivalent to four (4) hours wages for the time worked. 29 USC 207 and 29 CFR 778 shall be amended accordingly.
3. No federal employer, private employer contracting with the federal government, public employer receiving federal funds, or private employer in interstate commerce shall be permitted to deduct contributions to a third-party from employee paychecks without the affirmative consent of the employee or any equitable remedy including but not limited to garnishment awarded by a federal, Regional, or State court with appropriate jurisdiction.
4. The regulation mandating employers give out private employee contact information is hereby eliminated. 29 CFR 102.62(d) shall be amended accordingly.
5. Eligible whistleblowers to the SEC shall be permitted to keep up to 30% of resulting fines exceeding $1 Million dollars. 15 USC 78u-6 shall be amended accordingly.
SECTION III: EMPLOYER PROTECTIONS
1. The regulation requiring employers to physically display posters referencing federal minimum wage and hour laws, workplace safety laws, polygraph protection laws, Drug free workplace laws, Discrimination laws, and whistleblower protection laws, shall not apply to employers who:
a. Distribute all information that is contained on the posters to each employee upon their initial hiring
b. Maintains a website displaying all information that is contained on the posters
c. Provides written notice to all employees whenever information contained on the posters is changed by law
2. Employer policies allowing guns to be stored in locked cars on employee parking lots shall not be interpreted to violate the general duty clause of the Occupational Safety and Health Act. The Letter from Director Roger Clark, OSHA policy regarding violent employee behavior, OSHA Std. Interp. 1226 (D.O.L.), (1992) is hereby rescinded.
SECTION IV: VIOLENT DISRUPTION OF INTERSTATE COMMERCE
1. Except as otherwise provided herein, whoever in any way or degree obstructs, delays, or affects commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce, by A.) robbery; B.) extortion; C.) conspiracies to commit robbery or extortion; or D.) threats of physical violence to any person or property in furtherance of a plan or purpose to do anything in violation of this section, shall be fined not more than $10,000, imprisoned for a term of not more than two (2) years, or both. 18 USC 1951 (Hobbs Act) shall be amended accordingly.
2. This act shall not apply to any conduct that A.) is incidental to otherwise peaceful picketing during the course of a labor dispute; B.) consists solely of minor bodily injury, or minor damage to property, or threat or fear of such minor injury or damage; and C.) is not part of a pattern of violent conduct or of coordinated violent activity.
3. The term ‘extortion’ shall be defined as the obtaining of property from any person, with the consent of that person, if that consent is induced A.) by actual or threatened use of force or violence, or fear thereof; or B.) by wrongful use of fear not involving force or violence.
4. The term ‘robbery’ shall be defined as the unlawful taking or obtaining of personal property from the person or in the presence of another, against his or her will, by means of A.) actual or threatened force or violence, or fear of injury, immediate or future; B.) actual or threatened force or violence to his or her person or property, or property in his or her custody or possession; or C.) actual or threatened force or violence to the person or property of a relative or member of his or her family, or of anyone in his or her company at the time of the taking or obtaining.
5. The term ‘labor dispute’ has the same meaning as in 29 U.S.C. 152(9)(National Labor Relations Act).
SECTION V: IMPLEMENTATION
1. This act shall take effect six (6) months from the date of enactment.
