SB18-08: Woke Worker Protection Act (Passed)

[Lumine]

Woke Worker Protection Act

HOUSE BILL

To protect the rights of workers

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.

People's House of Representatives
Passed 6-3-0 in the People's House Assembled,

Sponsor: TBD.
Designation: SB18-08.

[Lumine]

Reactionary noticed three separate bills had been left behind and not sent to the Senate after passing the House. Like a good citizen he made a point of pressing me on it, and due to RL stuff (and certain forum frustrations) I somehow kept postponing taking action. So my sincere apologies for that.

We need a sponsor.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I will sponsor this one.

[Mr. Reactionary]

2-1 protects employees who express breast milk at work.
2-2 sets a minimum call-in pay rate guaranteeing 4 hours work or 4 hours wage for workers called in to work during unscheduled shifts including shifts less than 4 hrs to ensure workers are being paid fairly for being called in odten last minute. To do that for 1 or 2 hrs work is often not worth it.
2-3 prevents employers from deducting non-tax money from an employees paycheck for a 3rd party without permission or a court order to make sure workers dont get ripped off.
2-4 extends privacy protections to worker information possessed by an employer to limit them from giving out your information without your permission.
2-5 increases rewards for whistleblowers who aid in successful prosecutions of corrupt businesses.

3-1 allows employers instead of posting those dumb posters that no one ever reads on a back wall somewhere for infinity to instead give physical copies to its workers, maintain a web portal where the same information is posted, and provide updates. This is good because speech and property rights are important and requiring someone to permanently display a government propaganda poster on their physical wall is intrusive and also no one reads them.
3-2 protects employee parking lots from intrusive searches.

4 bans workplace violence intended to stop interstate commerce.

[Lumine]

Yankee is recognized as sponsor.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

This is good because speech and property rights are important and requiring someone to permanently display a government propaganda poster on their physical wall is intrusive and also no one reads them.

I read them.

[Mr. Reactionary]

This is good because speech and property rights are important and requiring someone to permanently display a government propaganda poster on their physical wall is intrusive and also no one reads them.

I read them.

Every day?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

This is good because speech and property rights are important and requiring someone to permanently display a government propaganda poster on their physical wall is intrusive and also no one reads them.

I read them.

Every day?

I typically pace the halls outside the break room because if I stay sitting down until it is time to clock back in from lunch, I get stiff and ache more.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

I move for a final vote.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Bump 4 of the night

[Lumine]

Right, we move to a final vote. Senators, please vote AYE, NAY or ABSTAIN.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Aye!

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

AYE

[Devout Centrist]

Nay

[ON Progressive]

Nay

[Vern]

Aye

[Comrade Funk]

Nay

[Lumine]

My my, we have ourselves a tie. I don't necessarily agree with every single point, but this seems like a broadly reasonable bill and those against it have failed to assert why is it that the bill should not be approved.

I break the tie with an AYE, this bill is passed on a 4-3 vote.

Act of Congress
To protect the rights of workers

Be it enacted by both houses of Congress assembled:

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.

People's House of Representatives
Passed 6-3-0 in the People's House Assembled,


People's Regional Senate
Passed 4-3-0 in the Atlasian Senate Assembled,


Joint Passage of Act of Congress

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[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Thank you Lumine.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Thank you Lumine.