bill_id,congress,bill_type,bill_number,title,policy_area,introduced_date,latest_action_date,latest_action_text,origin_chamber,sponsor_name,sponsor_state,sponsor_party,sponsor_bioguide_id,cosponsor_count,summary_text,update_date,url 103-s-2565,103,s,2565,Court Reporter Fair Labor Standards Act of 1994,Labor and Employment,1994-11-30,1994-11-30,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Pressler, Larry [R-SD]",SD,R,P000513,1,"Court Reporter Fair Labor Standards Act of 1994 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to allow an exemption from certain Federal wage and hour requirements for State and local official court reporters while they are performing transcription duties for a private party outside of normal working hours, provided there is an understanding between the court reporters and their State or local court employer.",2025-08-26T13:51:30Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/2565 103-hres-582,103,hres,582,Declaring the sense of the House with respect to the National Performance Review's recommendation to dismantle the railroad retirement system.,Labor and Employment,1994-10-07,1994-10-17,Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.,House,"Rep. Clinger, William F., Jr. [R-PA-5]",PA,R,C000523,0,Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) a continued Federal commitment to the railroad retirement system is essential to assure the integrity of railroad retirees' benefits; and (2) the National Performance Review's proposal to dismantle and transfer the administrative functions of the railroad retirement system to other Federal agencies and eliminate the Railroad Retirement Board should be rejected.,2024-02-07T16:32:33Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-resolution/582 103-s-2544,103,s,2544,"A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to adjust the maximum hour exemption for agricultural employees, and for other purposes.",Labor and Employment,1994-10-07,1994-10-07,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID]",ID,R,C000858,0,"Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to modify the maximum hour (overtime) exemption for employees of irrigation districts which handle water exclusively for agricultural purposes, by specifying that at least 90 percent of such water is to be ultimately delivered for agricultural purposes.",2025-04-21T12:24:17Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/2544 103-s-2547,103,s,2547,ERISA Audit Improvement Act of 1994,Labor and Employment,1994-10-07,1994-10-07,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Simon, Paul [D-IL]",IL,D,S000423,0,"ERISA Audit Improvement Act of 1994 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to revise provisions relating to auditing of employee benefit plans. Eliminates provisions which allow certain limited scope audits by banks, similar institutions, or insurance carriers to fulfill the requirement for an audit by an independent public accountant as part of an employee benefit plan's annual report. Requires external quality control review of qualified public accountants for such ERISA audits. Requires notifications of certain events by plan administrators and accountants. Authorizes assessment of a civil penalty against any plan administrator or accountant who fails to provide the Secretary of Labor with any such required notification.",2025-08-26T13:51:08Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/2547 103-hr-5204,103,hr,5204,Employee Partnership Reward Act of 1994,Labor and Employment,1994-10-06,1994-11-14,Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations.,House,"Rep. Wyden, Ron [D-OR-3]",OR,D,W000779,0,TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Refundable Income Tax Credit for Nondeferred Distributions from Performance-Based Reward Plans Title II: Establishment of Program to Promote Performance-Based Reward Plans and Employee Decisionmaking Participation Programs Employee Partnership Reward Act of 1994 - Title I: Refundable Income Tax Credit for Nondeferred Distributions from Performance-Based Reward Plans - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow eligible employees a refundable income tax credit for nondeferred distributions from performance-based reward plans. Allows employers an additional deduction for performance-based rewards. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to study and report to the Congress on the effect of such credit in stimulating productivity and full employment. Directs the Secretary of Labor and the Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service each to: (1) collect statistics on the extent of performance-based reward plans in the United States; and (2) prepare studies describing the nature and terms of these plans. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to publish annual estimates of annual tax expenditures for deferred profit-sharing plans and employee stock ownership plans. Title II: Establishment of Program to Promote Performance-Based Reward Plans and Employee Decisionmaking Participation Programs - Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to establish and carry out an Employee Partnership Pilot Program. Directs the Administrator to make five-year program grants to up to five eligible entities to promote implementation of performance-based reward plans and employee decisionmaking participation programs. Requires a matching non-Federal share.,2026-03-23T12:41:21Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/5204 103-hr-5226,103,hr,5226,ERISA Audit Improvement Act of 1994,Labor and Employment,1994-10-06,1994-11-14,Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations.,House,"Rep. Mink, Patsy T. [D-HI-2]",HI,D,M000797,0,"ERISA Audit Improvement Act of 1994 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to revise provisions relating to auditing of employee benefit plans. Eliminates provisions which allow certain limited scope audits by banks, similar institutions, or insurance carriers to fulfill the requirement for an audit by an independent public accountant as part of an employee benefit plan's annual report. Requires external quality control review of qualified public accountants for such ERISA audits. Requires notifications of certain events by plan administrators and accountants. Authorizes assessment of a civil penalty against any plan administrator or accountant who fails to provide the Secretary of Labor with any such required notification.",2026-03-23T12:41:21Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/5226 103-s-2516,103,s,2516,Job Training Consolidation and Reform Act,Labor and Employment,1994-10-06,1994-10-06,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]",MA,D,K000105,0,"TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Federal Responsibilities Title II: State Responsibilities Title III: Local Responsibilities Title IV: Consolidation Title V: Integrated Labor Market Information System Job Training Consolidation and Reform Act - Consolidates and revises Federal job training programs to create a workforce development system. (Sec. 3) Authorizes appropriations. Title I: Federal Responsibilities - Establishes the National Workforce Development Board (the Board). (Sec. 101) Amends the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) to repeal the establishment of the National Commission for Employment Policy. Replaces references to such Commission with references to the Board. Requires the Board to issue a biennial National Workforce Strategic Plan (Federal Blueprint). Directs the Board also to: (1) provide congressional testimony; (2) make recommendations on measures (including tax code changes) to encourage employers and workers to invest in training and skills upgrading and employers to hire and train hard-to-serve individuals; (3) review implementation and incentive grant proposals; (4) coordinate with the National Skill Standards Board; and (5) make final recommendations in the form of a joint resolution to the President and the Congress. (Sec. 102) Requires the Board to prepare an annual report to be known as the Nation's Workforce Development Report Card (National Report Card) which shall assess the U.S. workforce development system performance and evaluate all workforce development programs that receive Federal funding. (Sec. 103) Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make grants to applicant States to: (1) develop strategic plans for development of comprehensive statewide integrated workforce development systems; and (2) if they are leading edge States, implement such systems. Directs the Secretary to use specified information clearinghouses and other entities to: (1) collect and disseminate information to help States and localities to streamline and reform their job training systems; and (2) facilitate exchange of information and ideas among States and localities carrying out job training reform initiatives. Requires the Board to determine whether any proposed Federal job training legislation complies with data reporting, common definitions, and common funding cycles provisions under this Act. Makes it out of order for the Senate or House of Representatives to consider any bill or resolution concerning workforce development that would not comply with the national workforce development system, as determined by the Board. Requires a three-fifths affirmative vote to waive or suspend such requirement in the Senate or House. (Sec. 104) Directs the President to establish an expedited process to consider and act on requests by States for waivers of laws and regulations for specified programs for: (1) two years to facilitate provision of assistance for workforce development, for States not receiving implementation grants; or (2) the duration of the implementation grant, for States receiving such grants. (Sec. 105) Establishes a quality assurance system. Directs the Secretaries of Labor, of Education, and of Health and Human Services to jointly develop common terms and definitions and a placement accountability system and adjust existing program performance standards. Directs the Board to recommend a system of performance standards in its joint resolution to the Congress that includes standard outcome measures relating to employment, job retention, earnings, and nonemployment outcome measures (such as learning and competency gains). Requires each workforce development program that receives Federal funds to collect, and report to the Governor and State Council, specified information relating to each participant's: (1) quarterly employment status and earnings for one year after no longer receiving program assistance; (2) economic and demographic characteristics; (3) services received and spending for them; (4) program outcomes; and (5) other data that may be added as the Board develops other standard definitions. Requires that program monitoring under these provisions supplant existing monitoring and reporting requirements for program participants. Directs each Federal department and agency with responsibility for a workforce development program to report to the Board on its progress in adopting common terms and definitions for program participants, service activities, and outcomes by program operators and grant recipients. Requires each workforce development program receiving Federal funds to use the common terms and definitions. Directs the Board to make recommendations to: (1) the Secretaries and heads of other agencies operating workforce development programs, on common definitions for other terms; and (2) the Congress, on legislative action if any of the proposed common definitions require amendment to existing laws. Establishes a placement accountability system for all federally funded workforce development programs. Requires each such program to: (1) monitor its own performance by measuring quarterly employment status and earnings of each participant for one year after he or she no longer receives program assistance; and (2) provide required information on participants, to be matched by information from the State agency for labor market information which shall be reimbursed by the requesting program with Federal funds. Directs the State agency to submit the results of the matching to the State Council. Requires the Governor to ensure submission of matched data to the State Council, the Board, the Secretary (of Labor), and other Federal entities. Requires that such program quality assurance information be made available to the State Council, local workforce development boards in the State, and consumers of labor market information. Requires all federally funded workforce development programs to be funded on a consistent funding cycle basis. Directs the Board to make recommendations to the Congress on the appropriate funding cycle. Title II: State Responsibilities - Requires each State desiring to participate in development of an integrated and accountable workforce development system to: (1) establish a State Workforce Development Council (State Council); or (2) have an existing entity similar to a State Council that includes representatives of employers and workers. Directs each State Council to: (1) serve as principal advisory board to the Governor for all programs in the State's integrated workforce development system; and (2) assume the functions and responsibilities of councils and commissions required under Federal law that are part of such system. (Sec. 204) Directs the State Council to assist the Governor in: (1) preparing a biennial State Workforce Development Policy Blueprint and an annual State Workforce Development Report Card; and (2) certifying each local workforce development board, as well as recommending criteria to judge such local boards' effectiveness. (Sec. 205) Requires the State Council to develop a quality assurance system to complement and expand upon the one established under title I, in order to provide customers of job training services with consumer reprts on the supply, demand, price, and quality of job training services in each unified service delivery area in the State. Directs each State to select tools and measures appropriate to its needs, including: (1) collecting and organizing service provider performance data; and (2) conducting surveys to ascertain customer satisfaction. Directs the State Council, with the local workforce development boards, to establish mechanisms for collecting and disseminating the quality assurance information to individuals seeking employment, employers, Federal, State, and local policymakers, and training and education providers. Requires each public and private education, training, and career development service provider receiving Federal funds under a program in a State integrated system to collect and provide the quality assurance information. (Sec. 206) Sets forth State Council authorities, including funding and operating special projects for research or improvement of system performance. (Sec. 207) Directs State Councils to make recommendations to Governors for establishment of unified service delivery areas (SDAs). Requires States receiving implementation grants to establish unified SDAs to provide community-wide workforce development assistance in one-stop career centers. Requires consideration of existing labor market areas, local governments, and SDAs under JTPA, as well as distance traveled by individuals to receive services. Allows merger of existing SDAs. Prohibits approval of a total number of such unified SDAs greater than that of the existing SDAs in the State. (Sec. 208) Requires each State to use a portion of its development grant to design a unified financial and management information system. Directs each State receiving an implementation grant to require all programs in the integrated system to use such unified financial and management information system. Sets forth requirements for such systems. (Sec. 209) Requires each State, from its development or implementation grant, to develop a strategy to enhance capacity of institutions, organizations, and staff involved in State and local workforce development activities by providing certain types of services. (Sec. 210) Provides that the Governor of each State implementing an integrated workforce development system: (1) may adjust existing performance standards for programs in such system, using criteria including specified factors; and (2) shall, within parameters established by the Board, prescribe adjustments to such performance criteria for unified SDAs based on specified factors. Requires such developed performance criteria to be used in lieu of similar criteria for programs receiving Federal funding included in the State's integrated system, to the extent determined by the State Council subject to Board approval. Title III: Local Responsibilities - Requires the local elected officials of each unified SDA, in each State receiving an implementation grant (except any with a single unified SDA with contiguous borders), to establish a workforce development board (local board) to administer the workforce development provided by all programs in the integrated workforce development system in such area. (Sec. 302) Requires each local board to report to the State Council a biennial workforce development board policy blueprint. (Sec. 303) Requires each local board to submit to the State Council an annual unified SDA report card. (Sec. 304) Requires each local board receiving funds under an implementation grant to develop and implement a network of one-stop career centers in its unified SDA to provide jobseekers, workers, and businesses universal access to a comprehensive array of quality employment, education, and training services. Requires selection of a method for such establishment consistent with specified criteria. Makes eligible for selection as a one-stop career center each entity within the unified SDA that performs specified brokerage services for individuals and employers. Prohibits any entity that performs one-stop career center functions from making an education and training referral to itself, but allows waivers of this prohibition under certain conditions. Allows each one-stop career center to charge fees for certain brokerage services to employers, subject to local board approval. Requires each such center to: (1) adopt core data elements and common definitions; and (2) enter into an operating agreement with the local board. (Sec. 305) Directs each local board to submit annual progress reports to the State Council. (Sec. 306) Requires each local board to identify capacity building actions to be taken for the workforce development system in its unified SDA. Directs the State Council to make funds available to each local board for capacity building building activities from implementation grant funds and other funds within the State's integrated workforce development budget. Lists types of capacity building activities. (Sec. 307) Establishes a program of incentive grants for incumbent worker training, consisting of competitive matching grants to local boards to respond to the training needs of front-line workers in their communities. Sets forth provisions for applications, selection of grantees by the Secretary according to certain criteria, authorized uses of funds, and Federal and local matching shares of funding. Title IV: Consolidation - Provides for consolidation of the system of federally funded employment training services available to jobseekers, workers, and businesses. (Sec. 401) Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) any budget savings realized through elimination or consolidation or sunsetting of such programs should be reinvested in the national job training (or workforce development) system; and (2) elimination or merging of programs should be done without reducing the Federal commitment or level of effort to improve education, employment, and earnings of all workers, particularly hard-to-serve individuals, including those with limited-English proficiency and others with special needs. (Sec. 402) Directs the Board to study and report to the President and the Congress on how best to integrate specified programs for in-school-and out-of-school youth under various Federal laws with those under the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994. (Sec. 403) Directs the board to advise on consolidation of workforce development progrms through: (1) recommendations to the President and the Congress for the elimination of Federal workforce development programs, or programs whose functions should be subsumed under other Federal programs; (2) a report and recommendations for proposed reforms to specified congressional committees based on its analysis of the experience of leading edge States and the progress toward establishing an integrated workforce development system; and (3) a draft of a joint resolution to the Congress with provisions to develop a streamlined, integrated, federally supported workforce development system, from listed programs and any other appropriate Federal program (including recommendations for standard program measures and a description of how the new system will maintain services to hard-to-serve populations). (Sec. 404) Requires any State receiving an implementation grant to include specified programs under various Federal laws (mandatory integrated programs) in its reformed delivery system. Allows any such State to include specified additional programs (optional integrated programs) under various Federal laws in its reformed delivery system. (Sec. 405) Repeals the provisons of various Federal laws for the listed mandatory integrated programs. Title V: Integrated Labor Market Information System - Directs the Secretary to oversee and ensure development, maintenance, and continued improvement of: (1) a nationwide integrated system of labor market information that will serve specified functions, include certain information, use common standards, and make certain data and information available to the Board and to consumers in automated delivery systems; and (2) certain mechanisms and programs for dissemination, technical assistance, and research. (Sec. 502) Directs the Board to plan, review, and evaluate the national integrated labor market information system. (Sec. 503) Requires the Secretary to: (1) manage the investment in an integrated labor market information on system in a specified manner; and (2) submit an annual plan for improving such system to the Board for review and recommendations, and to the President and the Congress. (Sec. 504) Directs each Governor and State Council to designate one State agency to be responsible for: (1) managing and overseeing a statewide integrated labor market information system; and (2) developing an annual State unified labor market information budget. Conditions Federal financial assistance under this title on the Governor or State Council carrying out other specified functions with respect to labor market information. Provides that the State agency is not limited by this Act from conducting additional data collection, analysis, and dissemination activities with funds derived from sources other than this Act.",2025-08-26T13:49:43Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/2516 103-s-2531,103,s,2531,Pension Bill of Rights Act of 1994,Labor and Employment,1994-10-06,1994-10-06,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Metzenbaum, Howard M. [D-OH]",OH,D,M000678,0,"TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Provisions Relating to Employees' Pension Rights Subtitle A: Right of Inclusion in Pension Plan Subtitle B: Right to Fair Treatment in Earning Benefits Subtitle C: Right to Adequate Funding Subtitle D: Pension Portability Subtitle E: Spousal Rights Title II: Protection of Employees' Pension Rights Subtitle A: Benefit Information Subtitle B: Investment Information and Advice Subtitle C: Assistance of Department of Labor in Enforcing Rights Subtitle D: Court Enforcement Subtitle E: Protection Against Fraud and Abuse Title III: Effective Dates Pension Bill of Rights Act of 1994 - Sets forth, and provides for the implementation of, a Pension Bill of Rights. Title I: Provisions Relating to Employees' Pension Rights - Subtitle A: Right of Inclusion in Pension Plan - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to set forth minimum coverage requirements. Requires each pension plan maintained by an employer to benefit all employees of the employer. Excludes certain employees who are: (1) in a unit covered by a collective bargaining agreement, if retirement benefits were the subject of bargaining; (2) airline pilots covered by a trust pursuant to certain collective bargaining; or (3) nonresident aliens who receive no income from the employer which constitutes income from sources within the United States. Excludes other employees who do not meet certain age and service requirements. Allows employers to apply such requirements separately with respect to each separate line of business, if the plan is not discriminatory in favor of highly compensated employees. (Sec. 102) Revises minimum participation requirements. Lowers the number of hours required for a year of service from 1,000 to 750. Provides for credit for part-time, seasonal, and temporary employees. Provides for treatment of leased employees. Prohibits an employer from requesting an employee to waive any right of coverage under, or participation in, any pension plan which is granted under ERISA. (Sec. 103) Directs the Secretary of Labor to prescribe one or more model simplified pension plans. (Sec. 104) Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a task force to study problems of coverage and adequacy of benefits and needs of employees under pension plans; and (2) report study results and recommendations to the Congress. Subtitle B: Right to Fair Treatment in Earning Benefits - Revises vesting rights. Eliminates a special vesting rule for multiemployer plans. Provides for immediate vesting of employer contributions to a defined contribution plan. (Sec. 112) Revises benefit accrual. Provides for integration with Social Security and similar benefits. Limits conditioning of employer contributions on employee contributions, by prohibiting mandatory contributions for employees below the Social Security wage base. Requires all years of service to be taken account of in computing subsidized early retirement benefits. Provides for a uniform rate of accrual. Directs the Secretary to issue guidelines for rates of accrual. Subtitle C: Right to Adequate Funding - Revises funding requirements. Provides for a 15-year amortization of benefit increases (currently 30, or 20 for multiemployer plans). Revises provisions relating to actuarial assumptions. Directs the Secretary to establish a range of recommended actuarial assumptions for plans for each calendar quarter. (Sec. 122) Provides safeguards for annuities purchased upon plan termination. Requires fiduciaries to ensure that benefits of participants and beneficiaries are fully protected under Federal or State law upon the purchase of any irrevocable insurance annuity contract. Provides for prior certification of insurers. Places premium payment requirements on annuity insurers. Authorizes the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) to establish a separate premium system to fund the guaranteed payment of retirement benefits to participants and beneficiaries covered by annuity contracts. (Sec. 123) Prohibits retroactive termination of plans. (Sec. 124) Revises provisions relating to investment of plan assets. Subtitle D: Pension Portability - Establishes portability requirements for defined contribution plans. (Sec. 132) Directs the Secretary to establish guidelines for plans maintained pursuant to collective bargaining agreements, in order to assist two or more plans to enter into reciprocity agreements under which the plans would: (1) maintain portable pension accounts for employees who terminate employment covered by one plan and begin employment covered by another; or (2) make arrangements for employees to transfer accrued benefits and vesting rights from one plan to another. (Sec. 133) Provides for inflation adjustment of deferred nonforfeitable benefits and of accrued benefit. Subtitle E: Spousal Rights - Provides for division of pension benefits upon divorce. (Sec. 142) Extends the application of joint and survivor annuity rules. (Sec. 143) Modifies joint and survivor and preretirement survivor annuity requirements with respect to: (1) consent forms; (2) making preretirement annuities available to former spouses; and (3) amount of annuity. Title II: Protection of Employees' Pension Rights - Subtitle A: Benefit Information - Establishes requirements for plan or employer representations, including: (1) prohibition of misrepresentation; (2) right of participant or beneficiary to reasonably rely on such representations; and (3) correction of mistakes within a reasonable period of time. (Sec. 202) Revises provisions relating to notice of rights. Shortens the time period for filing an annual report. Requires plan administrators to give participants and beneficiaries advance notice of material changes. Directs the Secretary to develop a model benefit statement to be used by multiemployer plan administrators which includes specified information with respect to retirement benefit earnings. Directs the Secretary to establish a program to assist participants and beneficiaries in receiving in a timely manner any information they are entitled to receive under ERISA. Authorizes civil penalties for failure to file required reports or make required disclosures. Subtitle B: Investment Information and Advice - Revises audit provisions with respect to full scope audits and material irregularities. (Sec. 212) Requires disclosure of specific information on plan assets and transactions, including: (1) administrative expenses and rates of return on assets; (2) participant right to confidentially vote any pension assets within his or her discretionary control, and to information on plan investment and proxy voting policies; and (3) transactions involving parties in interest. (Sec. 213) Allows participants and beneficiaries to request that a plan establish a pension advisory committee to provide participant advice and involvement in plan investment decisions. Requires such committees to be open to all interested participants and beneficiaries. Sets forth committee rights to information and meetings. (Sec. 214) Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on the feasibility of requiring representation of employees, independent trustees, or both, on the boards of trustees of pension plans. Subtitle C: Assistance of Department of Labor in Enforcing Rights - Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a program to assist participants and beneficiaries in understanding their rights to benefits under employee benefit plans; and (2) assist participants in obtaining such benefits, including through civil actions under ERISA. (Sec. 221) Directs the Secretary, together with the Secretary of the Treasury and heads of other appropriate Federal agencies, to establish a program, under the coordination and supervision of a designated ombuds officer, to: (1) coordinate assistance to participants and beneficiaries in obtaining documents and pursuing benefit claims; (2) issue opinions and advice on applicable Federal law and regulations; and (3) refer benefit claims to appropriate Internal Revenue Service district offices to determine legal compliance and to Department of Labor regional offices to protect individual benefit rights. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a voluntary assistance fund, consisting of voluntary contributions from employers, employee benefit plans, and other individuals, to supplement departmental assistance to participants, beneficiaries, and plans. Requires annual reports to the Congress on such fund. (Sec. 222) Adds claims review requirements for employee benefit plans, including time limits for consideration of claims, de novo review of denials, and emergency requests for preauthorization with expedited review. Directs the Secretary to establish a nonbinding alternative dispute resolution procedure for appeals of claims denials. Subtitle D: Court Enforcement - Revises ERISA provisions relating to attorneys' fees and court costs, awards of damages, review of benefit claim denials, standing, exhaustion of administrative remedies with respect to benefit claims denials, construction of ambiguous terms in plans, and actions under State law. Subtitle E: Protection Against Fraud and Abuse - Establishes criminal penalties for specified ERISA violations which involve embezzlement, theft, or mail fraud. (Sec. 242) Revises fiduciary requirements to add a minimum bond requirement, an insurance requirement, and a prohibition of certain waivers. (Sec. 243) Authorizes the Secretary to pay an award to persons providing information leading to certain collections of certain civil penalties under ERISA. Directs the Secretary to establish a toll-free telephone number for persons to provide such information. (Sec. 244) Directs the Secretary to audit annually a representative sample of plans with fewer than 100 participants. Title III: Effective Dates - Sets forth the effective date of this Act, with special rules for collectively bargained plans and for plan amendments.",2025-08-26T13:49:09Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/2531 103-hr-5187,103,hr,5187,Tobacco Workers Equity Act,Labor and Employment,1994-10-05,1994-10-26,"Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor Standards, Occupational Health and Safety.",House,"Rep. Kildee, Dale E. [D-MI-9]",MI,D,K000172,0,Tobacco Workers Equity Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to repeal the partial overtime exemption for employees who perform services necessary and incidental to the sale and processing of green and cigar leaf tobacco.,2026-03-23T12:47:58Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/5187 103-s-2504,103,s,2504,Contingent Workforce Equity Act,Labor and Employment,1994-10-05,1994-10-05,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Metzenbaum, Howard M. [D-OH]",OH,D,M000678,1,"TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Worker Protections Title II: Employee Benefits Title III: Misclassification of Employees as Independent Contractors Title IV: Federal Temporary Employees Contingent Workforce Equity Act - Title I: Worker Protections - Provides protections for part-time, temporary, or other contingent workers. (Sec. 101) Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for specified annual increases in the minimum wage. (Sec. 102) Requires that contingent (part-time or temporary) workers receive the same wages as full-time workers for the same work (with exceptions for differential payments pursuant to seniority, merit, or production quantity-or-quality systems or based on factors other than employment status). (Sec. 103) Amends specified Federal law relating to civil rights to protect all persons (including independent contractors) in their right to make and enforce contracts, sue, be parties, give evidence, and be subject to certain requirements free from discrimination based on religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability (race and color discrimination are already prohibited). (Sec. 104) Amends the National Labor Relations Act to include in the collective bargaining units part-time or temporary workers with reasonable expectations of continued employment. Revises joint employer status rules to consider individuals employed by a contractor of an employer as that employer's employees if they are assigned on a regular basis to perform work on the employer's premises and their tasks are functionally integrated with the employer's operations. (Sec. 105) Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to require employers to protect all workers (not only their own employees) from hazards within the employers' control. (Sec. 106) Amends the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act to extend to part-time employees the right to advance notice of layoffs and plant closings and other rights under such Act. (Sec. 107) Directs the Secretary of Labor, through the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to carry out an annual survey identifying the characteristics of temporary workers and their relationships with the establishments at which they are temporarily employed and, where appropriate, with their permanent employers. (Sec. 108) Amends the Service Contract Act of 1965 to require Federal service contract successors to offer a right of first refusal of employment to employees employed under the predecessor contract. Exempts cases where the successor contractor: (1) reasonably believes, based on past performance, the employee is unable to perform the work suitably; or (2) would have to layoff or discharge its own employee. Provides, where a lesser number of jobs are available under the successor contract, that the right of first refusal be offered on a seniority basis. Provides for remedial orders. Exempts contracts under the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act (relating to blind-made products) and under which services are provided on an intermittent basis. Title II: Employee Benefits - Extends certain employee benefits to contingent workers. (Sec. 201) Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act to lower the threshold for employee coverage to 125 hours of service with an employer during the previous three-month period. (Sec. 202) Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1970 (ERISA) to provide for: (1) treatment of employees working at less than full-time (500 or more hours but less than 1,000 hours service per year) under participation, vesting, and accrual rules governing pension plans; (2) treatment of part-time workers (less than 30 hours service per week) under group health plans; and (3) inclusion of certain individuals whose services are leased or contracted for under the definition of employee. (Sec. 203) Amends ERISA to require portable pension accounts for defined contribution plans. Directs the Secretary of Labor to set standards for reciprocity agreements between industry and labor funds for portable pension accounts and employee transfer of accrued benefits and vesting rights from one plan to another. Provides for inflation adjustment for deferred vested benefits. (Sec. 204) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require States to provide unemployment compensation to part-time workers unavailable for full-time work. Title III: Misclassification of Employees as Independent Contractors - Deals with certain misclassifications of employees as independent contractors. (Sec. 301) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to waive employment tax liability for such a misclassification based on a reasonable good faith misapplication of common law rules, where the employer did not treat individuals in substantially similar positions differently and agrees to treat all such individuals as employees in the future. Modifies provisions on safe harbor for classifications of individuals as nonemployees and provisions for authority for regulations and rulings on employment status. (Sec. 302) Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to make ineligible for Federal contracts employers who willfully misclassify employees as independent contractors. Requires certification that a bid or proposal for a Federal contract is adequate to pay all related employment taxes. Requires Federal contractors to notify independent contractors of their rights and responsibilities. Gives Federal contract bidders a right of action against bidders who misclassify employees as independent contractors. (Sec. 303) Amends Federal law relating to the armed forces to apply to Federal defense contractors provisions, similar to those for other Federal contractors, relating to: (1) ineligibility for contracts for willful misclassification of employees as independent contractors; (2) certification of bid adequacy to pay employment taxes; (3) notification of rights of independent contractors; and (4) right of action against bidders who misclassify employees as independent contractors. Title IV: Federal Temporary Employees - Sets forth provisions relating to Federal temporary employees. (Sec. 401) Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Federal Government should limit the temporary designation to only those positions lasting no more than one year. (Sec. 402) Amends Federal civil service law to direct the Office of Personnel Management to prescribe regulations to provide for offering health benefits plans to temporary Federal employees. (Sec. 403) Allows Federal employees in temporary assignments to participate in the Federal Employees' Retirement System after five years of service. (Sec. 404) Allows temporary Federal employees to receive life insurance benefits after completing six months of continuous employment.",2025-08-26T13:51:59Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/2504 103-s-2505,103,s,2505,Washington State Health Services Reform Enabling Act of 1994,Labor and Employment,1994-10-05,1994-10-05,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]",WA,D,M001111,0,"Washington State Health Services Reform Enabling Act of 1994 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to exempt from preemption under provisions for protection of employee benefit rights certain provisions of the law of the State of Washington relating to health plans. Makes such exemption inapplicable if any such provision, as applied, reduces or restricts benefits or options obtained or to be obtained pursuant to collective bargaining between bona fide employee representatives and one or more employers, or voluntary, participant-paid arrangement sponsored by bona fide employee representatives or their members.",2025-08-26T13:50:03Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/2505 103-hr-5166,103,hr,5166,Reemployment Act of 1994,Labor and Employment,1994-10-04,1994-10-26,Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.,House,"Rep. Ford, William D. [D-MI-13]",MI,D,F000270,1,"TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Comprehensive Program for Worker Reemployment Subtitle A: State and Substate Delivery System Subtitle B: Federal Service Delivery System Subtitle C: Performance Standards and Quality Assurance Systems Subtitle D: Program Requirements Subtitle E: Fiscal Administrative Provisions Subtitle F: Consolidation Provisions Title II: One-Stop Career System for Employment and Training Subtitle A: Basic System Components Subtitle B: Grants to States Subtitle C: Federal Grants to One-Stop Service Areas Subtitle D: Administrative Requirements Subtitle E: Waiver of Statutory and Regulatory Requirements Subtitle F: National Programs Title III: National Labor Market Information Program for Title IV: Technical Provisions Reemployment Act of 1994 - Establishes: (1) a comprehensive program for worker reemployment; (2) a one-stop career system for employment and training; and (3) a national labor market information program for States and localities. (Sec. 3) Authorizes appropriations for titles I, II and III, of this Act. Title I: Comprehensive Program for Worker Reemployment - Allots funds among States for the program under this title. Allows reservation of funds for State activities and reserves certain funds for national activities. Provides for allocation to substate areas, and recapture and reallotment of unexpended funds, (Sec. 103) Makes certain permanently laid-off workers and long-term unemployed individuals (as well as workers facing imminent plant shutdowns and self-employed individuals unemployed because of community economic conditions or natural disasters) eligible for services under this title. Makes dislocated homemakers and involuntarily retired workers eligible if the substate grantee deems this appropriate and certain conditions are met. Subtitle A: State and Substate Delivery System - Makes States responsible for administrative and management systems under this title. (Sec. 112) Requires the Governor to designate or establish a dislocated worker unit at the State level, with specified rapid response, information, program support and coordination functions. Directs such unit to coordinate with substate grantees and to promote worker-management transition assistance committees. Provides for rapid response coverage of certain layoffs, prohibition of State transfer of State transfer of rapid response response functions, and Federal oversight of such functions. (Sec. 113) Requires the Governor to identify, or establish and maintain a comprehensive labor market information system in the State that meets certain requirements relating to the national system of effective labor market information. (Sec. 114) Requires the Governor to coordinate programs under this title with the worker profiling system under the Social Security Act and the retraining income support program under another Act introduced in the 103d Congress. (Sec. 115) Authorizes the Governor to award supplementary grants to eligible entities to improve delivery and provide authorized services to eligible individuals in areas of the State experiencing substantial increases in numbers of such individuals due to plant closures, base closures, and mass layoffs, as well as to other underserved unemployed individuals with barriers to employment. Allows such grant funds to be used to establish on-site transition centers. (Sec. 116) Requires establishment of substate area administrative procedure. (Sec. 117) Authorizes the use of substate area funds for the following services for eligible individuals: (1) basic reemployment services; (2) intensive reemployment services; (3) education and training services; (4) retraining income support; and (5) supportive services. (Sec. 118) Requires a substate grantee to issue a certificate of continuing eligibility for services to eligible individuals who are accepting employment at a significantly lower wage than their previous one or in an occupation significantly different from their previous one. Subtitle B: Federal Service Delivery System - Directs the the Secretary of Labor to designate or establish an identifiable worker reemployment unit to coordinate the Secretary's functions under this title. (Sec. 122) Authorizes the Secretary to make national discretionary grants to eligible entities for programs to: (1) address large-scale economic dislocations resulting from plant closures, base closures, or mass layoffs; (2) self-employment opportunity, public works employment, dislocated farmers, and job creation; (3) establish on-site transition centers; (4) address small-scale layoffs likely to harm State or local economies; and (5) additional financial assistance for programs and activities operated by States and substate grantees under this title. (Sec. 123) Directs the Secretary to make funds available for disaster relief employment assistance to States for substate allocation. (Sec. 124) Directs the Secretary to provide for: (1) evaluation of programs under this title; (2) research on addressing economic dislocation, facilitating the transition of permanently laid-off workers to reemployment, and upgrading skills of employed workers; and (3) demonstration projects to develop and improve methods of addressing economic dislocation and promoting worker adjustment. (Sec. 125) Directs the Secretary to provide staff training and technical assistance to various entities to enhance their capacity to develop and deliver adjustment assistance services to workers, and to avert plant closings or substantial layoffs. Requires integration of such activities with those of the Capacity Building and Information and Dissemination Network. (Sec. 126) Directs the Secretary to provide for delivery of programs, activities, and services under this title in any State that chooses not to participate. Subtitle C: Performance Standards and Quality Assurance Systems - Directs the Secretary to prescribe performance standards relating separately to the substate grantees and the career centers. Directs Governors to: (1) prescribe adjustments to such standards; (2) provided technical assistance to grantees that fail to meet such standards; (3) terminate grantees that so fail for to two consecutive years; and (4) award incentive grants to grantees and centers exceeding such standards. (Sec. 132) Requires each substate grantee to establish methods for obtaining customer feedback from eligible individuals and employers who have received services under this title. (Sec. 133) Makes providers of education and training services eligible to receive funds under this title if they are eligible to participate under student aid provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965 or are determined eligible under alternative procedures established by Governors, and if they provide performance-based information. Exempts on-the-job training providers from such requirements. Part D: Program Requirements - Sets forth general requirements for programs under this title, including provisions for benefits, labor standards, and grievance procedures. Subtitle E: Fiscal Administrative Provisions - Sets forth various administrative provisions, including ones for program year, prompt allocation of funds, monitoring, fiscal controls and sanctions, reports, recordkeeping, and investigations, administrative adjudication, nondiscrimination, judicial review, and obligational authority. Part F: Consoidation Provisions - Repeals the following provisions of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA); (1) all of title III, Employment and Training Assistance for Dislocated Workers; (2) a requirement for maintenance of data on permanent layoffs and plant closings; and (3) all part of J of title IV, Disaster Relief Employment Assistance. (Sec. 172) Makes conforming amendments to JTPA and other Federal laws. (Sec. 173) Authorizes the Secretary to provide for orderly transition from the repealed programs under JTPA to the program under this title. Title II: One-Stop Career System for Employment and Training - Subtitle A: Basic System Components - Requires one-stop career system, to include: (1) integration of employment and training programs; (2) customer choice of information, services, and providers; (3) univeral access to services by customers, including individuals and employers; and (4) accountability of providers. (Sec. 212) Sets forth requirements for the integration of employment and training programs component. (Sec. 213) Sets forth requirements for the customer choice component. (Sec. 214) Sets forth requirements for the universal access component. (Sec. 215) Sets forth requirements for the accoutability component. Subtitle B: Grants to States - Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants to States for implementation of comprehensive statewide networks of one-stop career systems in all areas of such States. Provides for such grants to Native American tribal entities. Requires notification to the interagency task force before provision of any such grant. (Sec. 223) Sets forth application requirements, including review and comment by certain individuals and State plans. (Sec. 224) Provides for review of applications, including priority considerations and approval criteria. (Sec. 226) Requires State reports. Subtitle C: Federal Grants to One-Stop Service Areas - Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants directly to one-stop service areas to implement one-stop career systems. Provides for establishment of one-stop service areas and local consortia. Requires grant notification to the interagency task force. (Sec. 233) Sets forth application requirements, including a time limit for State review and comment. (Sec. 234) Provides for review of applications, including priority considerations and approval criteria. (Sec. 235) Requires integration of one-stop service area systems with statewide networks. (Sec. 236) Requires area reports. Subtitle D: Administrative Requirements - Requires State Governors to consider specified factors in establishing one-stop service areas and (with local officials) local consortia, and designating administrative entities for such areas. (Sec. 242) Lists participating programs for such one-stop career systems, including those under specified Federal and State laws as well as other Federal employment and training laws determined appropriate by the interagency task force. (Sec. 243) Requires each one-stop service provider to make available to individual participants in the one-stop career system certain services, includidng specified: (1) basic services; (2) additional basic services; and (3) State unemployment compensation initial claims' filing. Authorizes such providers to also provide certain intensive services and specialized employer services. (Sec. 244) Requires the administrative entity, in agreement with the local consortium, to establish a process for selecting one-stop service providers which are public agencies or private nonprofit organizations, including specified types of entities. (Sec. 245) Sets forth requirements for operating agreements. (Sec. 246) Makes each State implementing such a system responsible for administration, management, monitoring, and technical assistance. (Sec. 247) Requires each State to establish a State human resource investment council that meets specified JTPA requirements and carries out certain additional functions including advising on development and implementation of the statewide network of one-stop career systems. (Sec. 248) Provides for pooling of administrative resources. (Sec. 249) Sets forth applicable labor standards for activities under one-stop career systems. Subtitle E: Waiver of Statutory and Regulatory Requirements - Allows a State, local consortium, or Native American tribal entity to request from the Secretary concerned a waiver of one or more statutory or regulatory provisions. Sets forth waiver criteria. (Sec. 252) Subjects to such waiver authority specified participating programs of the systems. Subtitle F: National Programs - Authorizes the Secretary to monitor compliance of all aid recipients under this title. (Sec. 262) Sets forth requirements for performance standards and evaluation. (Sec. 263) Makes the Secretary responsible for reserving certain funds for providing, staff training and technical assistance (integrated with the Capacity Building and Information Dissemination Network under JTPA). (Sec. 264) Directs the Secretary (of Labor) and the Secretaries of Education and of Health and Human Services to establish an interagency task force to identify provisions of law and regulations that impede the ability of States and one-stop service areas to carry out this title and designate these as subject to expedited waiver authority. Requires a task force report to the Congress. Title III: National Labor Market Information Program for States and Localities - Directs the Secretary to develop, in coordination with Governors and appropriate Federal, State, regional, and local officials and entities, a strategy to establish a program to develop a nationwide system of State, regional, and local labor market information. Establishes the Office of Labor Market Information in the Department of Labor to have overall policy, coordination, and funding responsibilitiers for such system. (Sec. 303) Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with such other entities and public-private partnerships, to develop such system to make available specified types of information. Requires certain technical standards, consumer reports, and evaluation. (Sec. 304) Directs the Secretary to provide for coordination and integration of such system and appropriate dissemination of information. Title IV: Technical Provisions - Sets forth the effective date of this Act. (Sec. 402) Sets forth a sunset provision terminating the authority provided by titles II and III on October 1, 2003.",2026-03-23T12:47:58Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/5166 103-s-2499,103,s,2499,Worker-Management Relations for the 21st Century Act of 1994,Labor and Employment,1994-10-04,1994-10-04,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Pell, Claiborne [D-RI]",RI,D,P000193,0,"Worker-Management Relations for the 21st Century Act of 1994 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to permit the establishment of labor-management workplace committees to discuss matters of interest and concern, including but not limited to issues of quality, productivity, improved labor-management relations, job security, organizational efficiency, and enhanced economic development. Requires such committees to be composed of an equal number of management officials and employees (the latter elected by popular vote of the employees). Allows such committees to be established only upon the agreement of the employer and a majority of employees.",2025-08-26T13:49:56Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/2499 103-hr-5146,103,hr,5146,OSHA Reform Act of 1994,Labor and Employment,1994-09-30,1994-10-26,"Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor Standards, Occupational Health and Safety.",House,"Rep. Hefley, Joel [R-CO-5]",CO,R,H000444,0,"OSHA Reform Act of 1994 - Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA) to repeal provisions for: (1) inspections, investigations, and recordkeeping; (2) citations; (3) enforcement procedures; (4) judicial review; and (5) civil and criminal penalties. Requires a continuing comprehensive economic analysis of the costs and benefits of each OSHA standard. Directs the Secretary of Labor to consider the number of workers exposed to the toxic material or harmful physical agent, the nature and severity of the potential impairment, and the likelihood of such impairment, in determining the priority for establishing standards dealing with such materials or agents. Provides that employee safety and health participation committees are not prohibited under the National Labor Relations Act or the Railway Labor Act. Establishes a small business assistance and training program, including: (1) technical assistance and consultative services for employers and employees, targeted at small businesses and the most hazardous industries; and (2) certain consultative services to employers provided under cooperative agreements between the States and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Requires that at least one-fourth of the annual appropriation to carry out OSHA be expended for such assistance and training program. Directs the Secretary of Labor to periodically make an award to companies and other organizations which have implemented particularly effective approaches to occupational safety and health, including those providing for effective employee involvement.",2026-03-23T12:47:58Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/5146 103-hr-5151,103,hr,5151,To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an exemption from the overtime provisions for professional employees of contractors or subcontractors of the Resolution Trust Corporation who are paid on a hourly basis.,Labor and Employment,1994-09-30,1994-10-26,"Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor Standards, Occupational Health and Safety.",House,"Rep. Pastor, Ed [D-AZ-2]",AZ,D,P000099,0,Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt from overtime provisions professional employees of contractors or subcontractors of the Resolution Trust Corporation who are paid on an hourly basis.,2026-03-23T12:47:58Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/5151 103-sjres-226,103,sjres,226,A joint resolution providing for the temporary extension of the application of the final paragraph of section 10 of the Railway Labor Act with respect to the dispute between the Soo Line Railroad Company and certain of its employees.,Labor and Employment,1994-09-30,1994-09-30,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND]",ND,D,C000705,5,"Extends, through February 28, 1995, to the dispute referred to in Executive Order No. 12925 of August 29, 1994, between the Soo Line Railroad Company and its employees, the application of a provision of the Railway Labor Act which prohibits parties to a dispute from modifying, except by agreement, the conditions out of which the dispute arose.",2025-04-21T12:24:17Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-joint-resolution/226 103-sjres-228,103,sjres,228,"A joint resolution designating October 29, 1994, as ""National Firefighters Day"".",Labor and Employment,1994-09-30,1994-09-30,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.,Senate,"Sen. Sarbanes, Paul S. [D-MD]",MD,D,S000064,1,"Designates October 29, 1994, as National Firefighters Day.",2025-07-21T19:32:26Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-joint-resolution/228 103-hr-5135,103,hr,5135,Employee Benefit Plan Security and Protection Act of 1994,Labor and Employment,1994-09-29,1994-10-26,Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations.,House,"Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]",NJ,R,S000097,9,"Employee Benefit Plan Security and Protection Act of 1994 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code to revise provisions regarding employee benefit plan fiduciary duties in relation to external benefits, social investing, and economically targeted investments.",2026-03-23T12:41:21Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/5135 103-hjres-417,103,hjres,417,Providing for temporary extension of the application of the final paragraph of section 10 of the Railway Labor Act with respect to the dispute between the Soo Line Railroad Company and certain of its employees.,Labor and Employment,1994-09-28,1994-10-19,Became Public Law No: 103-380.,House,"Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-16]",MI,D,D000355,3,"Extends, through February 28, 1995, to the dispute referred to in Executive Order No. 12925 of August 29, 1994, between the Soo Line Railroad Company and its employees, the application of a provision of the Railway Labor Act which prohibits parties to a dispute from modifying, except by agreement, the conditions out of which the dispute arose.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-joint-resolution/417 103-hr-5126,103,hr,5126,Workplace Democracy Act of 1992,Labor and Employment,1994-09-28,1994-10-26,Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations.,House,"Rep. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT-At Large]",VT,I,S000033,1,"TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: General Provisions Regarding Rights of Employees and Enforcement Authority of the National Labor Relations Board Title II: General Provisions Regarding Right of Employees and Enforcement Authority for the National Labor Relations Board Title III: General Provisions Regarding Pension Plans Workplace Democracy Act of 1992 (sic) - Applies the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) to U.S. companies and their subsidiaries operating in any country signatory to a Free Trade Agreement. Gives workers of such companies and subsidiaries the right to file unfair labor practice complaints against the U.S. parent company under this Act and under the laws of the signatory country. Title I: General Provisions Regarding Rights of Employees and Enforcement Authority of the National Labor Relations Board - Amends the NLRA to give a union the option of sending a contract dispute to compulsory and binding arbitration, if by 45 days after certification a collective bargaining agreement has not been reached. (Sec. 102) Repeals specified prohibitions against strikes, boycotts, and hot cargo agreements. (Sec. 103) Repeals specified provisions relating to determinations of bargaining units by the National Labor Relations Board (the Board), including conditions relating to professional and non-professional employees, craft units, and guards. (Sec. 104) Directs the Board to promulgate rules which plainly define the characteristics of employee units appropriate for collective bargaining groups, including employee groups who have a community of interests. Requires the Board, upon receipt of a majority of signed union recognition cards of employees in an appropriate bargaining unit (as determined by the workers within such Board guidelines), to certify the labor organizations designated as the exclusive representatives of all employees in such unit. (Sec. 105) Revises provisions relating to enforcement and the authority of the Board in the prevention of unfair labor practices, including provisions relating to taking of testimony and to Board findings and orders. Adds to remedies for unfair labor practices making employees whole for the loss of economic benefits resulting from specified violations, as well as providing other remedial relief. Requires the Board to: (1) use its injunctive power upon determining that an employer has willfully violated unfair labor practice prohibitions; and (2) assess minimum civil penalties against employers for each willful violation of the NLRA. Requires an employer upon issuance of a complaint alleging an unfair labor practice, to reinstate a discharged employee pending adjudication and final review of such complaint. Allows any person who suffers financial injury by reason of a violation of a specified unfair labor practice prohibition to bring a civil action for treble damages. Makes a final judgment or decree of the Board to the effect that a defendant has committed such a violation prima facie evidence in any such action. (Sec. 106) Repeals provisions which allow a State or Territory to prohibit union security agreements (which require union membership as a condition of employment). Title II: General Provisions Regarding Rights of Employees and Enforcement Authority for the National Labor Relations Board - Sets forth provisions relating to the rights and obligations of public employees, and establishes procedures governing employer-employee relations in the special context of public employment. (Sec. 202) Creates the National Public Employment Relations Commission (the Commission). (Sec. 203) Sets forth the rights of public employees, including the rights to form, join, or assist employee organizations and to bargain collectively with employers. Sets forth the rights of public employee organizations. (Sec. 204) Sets forth provisions relating to: (1) public employee representatives and collective bargaining units; (2) impasses in collective bargaining over terms and conditions of employment and other related matters; (3) disputes over the interpretation or application of agreements; (4) public employees' and their unions' right to strike, and conditions under which a restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction may be granted in a case involving such a strike; (5) impasse procedures for firefighters and public safety officers; (6) a prohibition against strikes, work stoppages, slowdowns, or withholding of service by firefighters or public safety officers or their unions; (7) unlawful acts by employers or employee organizations and exclusive representatives of public employees; (8) Commission prevention of such unlawful acts; and (9) State authority to adopt rules that give public employees additional rights. Title III: General Provisions Regarding Pension Plans - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require joint trusteeship of single-employer pension plans, with equal representation of the interests of the employer or employers maintaining the plan and of the interests of the participants and their beneficiaries. Directs the Secretary of Labor to prescribe regulations relating to such requirement.",2026-03-23T12:41:21Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/5126 103-hr-5095,103,hr,5095,Major League Play Ball Act,Labor and Employment,1994-09-23,1994-09-29,Subcommittee Hearings Held.,House,"Rep. Williams, Pat [D-MT-1]",MT,D,W000520,0,"Major League Play Ball Act - Subjects the dispute between the major league baseball owners and players to binding arbitration. Establishes an arbitration board to resolve all issues between the parties and render a binding decision to replace their agreement which expired on December 31, 1993.",2026-03-23T12:41:21Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/5095 103-hjres-411,103,hjres,411,"Designating October 29, 1994, as ""National Firefighters Day"".",Labor and Employment,1994-09-20,1994-10-08,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.,House,"Rep. Hoyer, Steny H. [D-MD-5]",MD,D,H000874,234,"Designates October 29, 1994, as National Firefighters Day.",2025-07-21T19:32:26Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-joint-resolution/411 103-hr-5018,103,hr,5018,To limit the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission to overturn certain employee protection agreements.,Labor and Employment,1994-08-21,1994-09-06,Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials.,House,"Rep. Williams, Pat [D-MT-1]",MT,D,W000520,0,Amends Federal transportation law to prohibit the Interstate Commerce Commission from using its authority in rail carrier proceedings to overturn an employee protection arrangement agreed to by all the parties to the arrangement.,2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/5018 103-hr-4957,103,hr,4957,To amend the Railway Labor Act concerning the applicability of requirements of that Act to United States air carriers and flight crews engaged in flight operations outside the United States.,Labor and Employment,1994-08-12,1994-10-05,Subcommittee Hearings Held.,House,"Rep. Rahall, Nick J., II [D-WV-3]",WV,D,R000011,16,Amends the Railway Labor Act to apply its provisions regarding railway labor practices to flight crew members (excluding ground operations performed by non-flight crew members) employed by air carriers who perform their duties in whole or in part outside of the United States.,2024-02-07T16:02:17Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/4957 103-sjres-215,103,sjres,215,"A joint resolution designating September 5, 1994, Labor Day, as ""Try American Day"".",Labor and Employment,1994-08-05,1994-08-23,Referred to the House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.,Senate,"Sen. Dole, Robert J. [R-KS]",KS,R,D000401,9,"Designates September 5, 1994, Labor Day, as Try American Day.",2025-07-21T19:32:26Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-joint-resolution/215 103-s-2356,103,s,2356,Commission on the Advancement of Women in the Science and Engineering Work Forces Act,Labor and Employment,1994-08-03,1994-08-03,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]",UT,R,H000338,0,Commission on the Advancement of Women in the Science and Engineering Work Forces Act - Establishes the Commission on the Advancement of Women in the Science and Engineering Work Forces. Prohibits: (1) construing this Act to require any non-Federal entity to provide information to the Commission on such entity's personnel practices; and (2) using information obtained by the Commission from any entity in connection with any employment-related litigation. Terminates the Commission one year after submission of a report required by this Act. Authorizes appropriations.,2025-08-26T13:49:09Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/2356 103-hr-4868,103,hr,4868,Railroad Unemployment Insurance Amendments Act of 1994,Labor and Employment,1994-08-01,1994-08-17,Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.,House,"Rep. Swift, Al [D-WA-2]",WA,D,S001115,1,"Railroad Unemployment Insurance Amendments Act of 1994 - Amends the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act to revise the waiting period for unemployment benefits. Permits an employee to receive up to seven days of unemployment benefits during the first registration period during a time of continued unemployment, under specified conditions. Prohibits payment of benefits during a registration period if the employee had earnings during it of more than the monthly compensation base for the applicable base year. Makes similar revisions to the waiting period for sickness benefits. Revises the formula for calculating the maximum daily benefit rate. Provides extended benefits for up to 65 days of unemployment or 65 days of sickness during a benefit year after exhaustion of regular benefits.",2025-04-21T12:24:17Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/4868 103-hr-4861,103,hr,4861,Employment Enhancement Reform Act,Labor and Employment,1994-07-29,1994-09-16,Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education and Civil Rights.,House,"Rep. Zeliff, William H., Jr. [R-NH-1]",NH,R,Z000004,35,"TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Consolidation of Federal Employment Assistance Programs Subtitle A: Block Grants to States Subtitle B: Consolidation and Repeal of Certain Federal Employment Assistance Programs Title II: Notice of Availability of Earned Income Credit Title III: Repeal of Temporary Futa Surtax Employment Enhancement Reform Act - Title I: Consolidation of Federal Employment Assistance Programs - Subtitle A: Block Grants to States - Establishes a block grant program to prepare individuals for employment by increasing their occupational and educational skills. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make such grants, for up to five-year periods subject to annual approval and availability of appropriations, to States to provide employment assistance to eligible individuals. Reserves funds for grants to Indian tribes and migrant and seasonal farm worker organizations. (Sec. 103) Allocates such grants to States on the basis of relative numbers of: (1) unemployed in areas of substantial unemployment; (2) excess unemployed; and (3) economically disadvantaged adults. (Sec. 104) Sets forth requirements for applications, use of grants, and conduct of State programs. Requires State programs to provide employment assistance to the following types of eligible individuals: (1) economically disadvantaged and 14 years or older; (2) certain types of dislocated workers; (3) individuals with disabilities; (4) Armed Forces members being separated under other than adverse conditions; (5) unemployed veterans; and (6) displaced homemakers. Requires States to: (1) profile and evaluate individuals to determine the employment assistance services to be provided; (2) notify individuals of other sources of supportive services; (3) provide appropriate employment assistance, within specified limits; (4) monitor rates of individuals successfully obtaining employment after separation from the program, according to specified criteria; and (5) establish one-stop-shop centers throughout the State for program information and profiling and evaluation. Authorizes certain discretionary activities under State programs. (Sec. 107) Directs the Secretary to make biennial determinations of State success in placing individuals in employment. Authorizes reduction or termination of payments when a State has not been successful, and reinstatement or increase of payments when a State implements appropriate modifications of its program. (Sec. 110) Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Consolidation and Repeal of Certain Federal Employment Assistance Programs - Chapter 1: Consolidation of Programs - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to eliminate community mental health services demonstration projects for homeless individuals who are chronically mentally ill. (Sec. 112) Amends the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to add requirements for State collaborative programs of supported employment services for individuals with the most severe disabilities, special recreation activities and services, and projects with industry. Repeals other provisions for special project grants for supported employment programs, special recreational programs, projects with industry, and supported employment services for individuals with severe disabilities. Chapter 2: Repeal of Programs - Repeals Higher Education Act of 1965 provisions for special programs for students whose families are engaged in migrant and seasonal farmwork. (Sec. 122) Repeals: (1) the disabled veterans outreach program and the local veterans employment representative program under Federal law relating to veterans; and (2) the homeless veterans reintegration project under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act. (Sec. 123) Repeals: (1) the Foster Grandparent and Senior Companion programs under the Domestic Volunteer Service Act; (2) employment and training program provisions under the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (but allowing college students who are parents responsible for care of a dependent child under age 6 to be eligible for the food stamp program); and (3) the older American community service employment program under the Older Americans Act of 1965. (Sec. 124) Repeals the Job Training Partnership Act, except those provisions relating to the Job Corps. Authorizes appropriations for the Job Corps. (Sec. 125) Repeals the Appalachian vocational and other educational facilities and operations program under the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965. (Sec. 126) Repeals certain provisions relating to rules for computing the targeted job credit under the Internal Revenue Code. (Sec. 127) Repeals the JOBS (job opportunities and basic skills training) program provisions for recipients of AFDC (aid to families with dependent children) under the Social Security Act. (Sec. 128) Repeals: (1) the Service Members Occupational Conversion and Training Act of 1992; (2) the Adult Education Act; (3) the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act; (4) the National Literacy Act of 1991; and (5) and the Indian Employment, Training and Related Services Demonstration Act of 1992. (Sec. 133) Repeals special programs relating to adult education for Indians, under the Indian Education Act of 1988. (Sec. 134) Repeals special Social Security Act provisions relating to Indian tribes and JOBS training programs. (Sec. 135) Repeals provisions for for the VISTA Literacy Corps under the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973. (Sec. 136) Repeals: (1) the Wagner-Peyser Act (employment agencies); (2) the adult education for the homeless grants program and the job training for the homeless demonstration grants program under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act; (3) the trade adjustment assistance for workers program under the Trade Act of 1974; (4) FY 1993 and 1994 authorizations of appropriations for certain grants, as well as certain technical assistance conditions, under the Homeownership and Opportunity through HOPE Act; and (5) the State legalization impact-assistance grants program under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Subtitle C: Effective Dates - Sets forth effective dates. Title II: Notice of Availability of Earned Income Credit - Amends the Social Security Act and the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to require that notice of availability of the earned income tax credit be provided to applicants for and former recipients of AFDC, Medicaid, or food stamps. (Sec. 202) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 to require printing of a notice of the availability of the earned income tax credit and the dependent care tax credit on W-4 forms for employee withholding exemptions. Title III: Repeal of Temporary FUTA Surtax - Repeals the temporary FUTA (Federal Unemployment Tax Act) surtax under the Internal Revenue Code.",2026-03-23T12:47:58Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/4861 103-s-2328,103,s,2328,Federal Acquisition Labor Law Improvement Act of 1994,Labor and Employment,1994-07-27,1994-07-27,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Simon, Paul [D-IL]",IL,D,S000423,0,"Federal Acquisition Labor Law Improvement Act of 1994 - Amends the Davis-Bacon Act (DBA) to provide for wage determinations based on the locality where the work is performed. Requires contractors and subcontractors covered by DBA to pay laborers and mechanics unconditionally at least weekly without subsequent deduction or rebate, except for certain union dues when the worker gives written authorization. Applies DBA requirements to laborers and mechanics employed by the contractor or subcontractor to: (1) work directly upon the site of the work, including work at fabrication plants, batch plants, tool yards, or similar facilities not on the project site but dedicated exclusively, or nearly so, to project construction (except previously established facilities whose location and continuance in operation are determined wholly without regard to the contract work); and (2) transport materials, supplies, and equipment to or from the worksite. (This includes truckdrivers, except those employed by an independent trucking company or material supplier for hauling from a permanent previously established facility to the worksite.) Increases the minimum threshold (currently $2,000) for DBA coverage of contracts for public buildings and works to: (1) $100,000 for new construction, complete rehabilitation, or reconstruction; and (2) $50,000 for repairs or alterations. Sets conditions for coverage of leased property. Provides for periodic adjustments of such thresholds. Prohibits splitting contracts. Sets preemption conditions. Revises DBA enforcement provisions, including: (1) administrative procedures, including the Secretary of Labor's authority with respect to payment of workers, debarment of contractors, and coordination of enforcement; (2) review procedures, including court review of coverage determinations; and (3) creation of a private right of action for workers. Amends the Copeland Act to: (1) eliminate weekly payroll data submission for contracts of $100,000 or less; and (2) change such weekly requirement to a monthly one for contracts of more than $100,000, with provisions for waivers for contractors or subcontractors who have demonstrated compliance with DBA and other labor standards. Revises enforcement provisions to: (1) require contractors and subcontractors to maintain payroll and related records for three years after completion of contract work and make such records available upon request of the contracting officer or the Secretary; (2) grant the Secretary subpoena and debarment authority with respect to records; and (3) establish penalties for false records. Amends the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act to provide that: (1) the Secretary, rather than the Comptroller General, shall initiate debarment action for violations; and (2) the General Services Administration (GSA) shall include the names of those debarred on a governmentwide list. Amends the Service Contract Act to eliminate a five-year limitation on a contract period. Directs the Secretary to debar contractors for violations and transmit their names to the GSA for inclusion on the governmentwide list.",2025-08-26T13:51:40Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/2328 103-s-2308,103,s,2308,Commission on Retirement Income Policy Act of 1994,Labor and Employment,1994-07-21,1994-07-21,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [D-CT]",CT,D,L000304,0,"Commission on Retirement Income Policy Act of 1994 - Establishes the Commission on Retirement Income Policy. Directs the Commission to study and report to the President and Congress on: (1) trends in retirement savings in the United States; (2) existing Federal incentives and programs to encourage and protect such savings; and (3) new Federal incentives and programs needed for such purpose. Requires the Commission to address specified issues and to include in its recommendation measures addressing specified needs of future retirees. Terminates the Commission within 90 days after submission of such report, which is required by the end of 1995.",2025-08-26T13:51:36Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/2308 103-hr-4803,103,hr,4803,Fair Pay Act of 1994,Labor and Employment,1994-07-20,1994-07-22,Executive Comment Requested from EEOC.,House,"Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]",DC,D,N000147,36,"Fair Pay Act of 1994 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit discrimination in payment of wages on the basis of sex, race, or national origin. Requires such nondiscriminatory equal pay for equivalent jobs with the same employer, unless the differential payment is made pursuant to a system of seniority, merit, or production quality or quantity based earnings. Prohibits discrimination against an employee for exercising rights under this Act. Directs the court, in actions brought for violations of this Act, to allow expert fees as part of the costs, in addition to any other remedies awarded to prevailing plaintiffs. Allows such actions to be maintained as class actions. Requires employers to keep records and file annual reports with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) necessary for enforcement of this Act. Provides that such reports' contents shall be public information. Directs the EEOC to carry out a research, education, and technical assistance program for employers, labor organizations, and the general public concerning effective means available to implement this Act.",2026-03-23T12:47:58Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/4803 103-hjres-384,103,hjres,384,"To designate the week of February 6, 1995, as ""National Inventors Week"".",Labor and Employment,1994-06-30,1994-06-30,Referred to the House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.,House,"Rep. Kim, Jay [R-CA-41]",CA,R,K000181,48,"Designates the week of February 6, 1995, as National Inventors Week.",2024-02-06T20:04:02Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-joint-resolution/384 103-hjres-379,103,hjres,379,To provide for a settlement of the railroad labor-management disputes between the Long Island Rail Road Company and certain of its employees represented by the United Transportation Union.,Labor and Employment,1994-06-17,1994-06-27,Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials.,House,"Rep. Ackerman, Gary L. [D-NY-5]",NY,D,A000022,14,"Provides for a settlement of the railroad labor-management disputes between the Long Island Rail Road Company and certain of its employees represented by the United Transportation Union. Directs the President to appoint a Special Board, taking into account recommendations of the parties. Requires the Special Board to act as mediators for a 28-day period and then issue a binding determination on any remaining issues in dispute.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-joint-resolution/379 103-hr-4597,103,hr,4597,Occupational Safety and Health Reform Act,Labor and Employment,1994-06-17,1994-07-19,"Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor Standards, Occupational Health and Safety.",House,"Rep. Fawell, Harris W. [R-IL-13]",IL,R,F000049,23,"Occupational Safety and Health Reform Act - Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA) to set forth separate requirements for OSHA coverage of employing authorities and instrumentalities of the Congress. (Sec. 3) Requires the following criteria in development of OSHA standards: (1) significant risk; (2) feasibility; (3) reasonable cost-benefit relationship; (4) cost-effective and minimal job loss; and (5) where practicable, expressed in objective criteria and desired performance. Revises standard priorities based on toxicity and numbers exposed. Revises rulemaking procedures. Requires a regulatory flexibility analysis for each standard promulgated. (Sec. 4) Requires an annual report on the number and nature of complaints to which the Secretary does not respond under OSHA because another Federal or State agency has jurisdiction, with recommendations on achieving coordination. Provides that employee safety and health participation committees are not prohibited under the National Labor Relations Act or the Railway Labor Act. Provides a nondisclosure privilege for voluntary safety and health audits and reviews. (Sec. 5) Deems a variance to have been issued as of the date of the application filing, if the Secretary fails to act on the application within 180 days of the filing, unless such delay is caused by the applicant's action or inaction. (Sec. 6) Revises inspection provisions. Requires inspections to be conducted by at least one individual trained in and knowledgeable of the industry or the types of hazards. Provides for fire hazard inspection training and referral. Prohibits routine inspections of employers of ten or fewer employees if such employers are: (1) farming operations which do not maintain a temporary labor camp; or (2) in a category of employers having an occupational injury or a lost day rate which is less than the national average. Grants the Secretary discretion in determining which employer complaints must receive formal inspection responses. (Sec. 7) Directs the Secretary to establish an office to promote, administer, and coordinate programs and activities for worksite-based incentives for voluntary compliance with OSHA. Directs the Secretary to establish a voluntary compliance program granting partial exemption from OSHA general inspections for employers who either retain certain consultation or certification programs or have an exemplary safety record and a safety and health program meeting specified criteria. Provides for reduction or suspension of penalties for program participants under certain conditions. Directs the Secretary to establish a program for certification of safety and health consultants to conduct inspections under such program. Directs the Secretary to award special recognition to worksites, companies, and other organizations which have implemented particularly effective approaches to occupational safety and health, including those providing for effective employee involvement. Authorizes consultative services to employers under Federal-State cooperative agreements. Directs the Secretary to establish programs for education, training, and technical assistance for employers and employees to assist in providing safe and healthful workplaces and OSHA compliance. Requires that at least one-fourth of the annual appropriation to carry out OSHA be expended for such worksite-based incentives for voluntary compliance. (Sec. 8) Adds employer defenses of employee misconduct or alternative safer methods. (Sec. 9) Extends the period for employer contests of citations by the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission. Requires deference to be given the Commission's reasonable conclusions with respect to questions of law. (Sec. 10) Revises procedures for discrimination protection for whistle-blowers under OSHA, including extending the time for filing complaints, and providing for reviews, appeals, and mediation. (Sec. 11) Revises enforcement, including special conditions and practices, a mandatory special emphasis program, and investigations of deaths and serious incidents. (Sec. 12) Revises penalties in general, and with respect to special assessments, citations, knowing violations, and victims' rights. (Sec. 13) Requires States to make their applicable labeling, content, and hazard information requirements identical to OSHA standards. Authorizes waivers to State safety and health programs. (Sec. 14) Repeals authority for the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), thus abolishing it. Transfers to the Secretary of Labor functions and authorities of NIOSH and of the Secretary of Health and Human Services under OSHA. (Sec. 15) Authorizes employers to establish alcohol and substance abuse testing programs where there is a reasonable probability that any employee's safety or health could be endangered because of use of alcohol or a controlled substance in the workplace. Directs the Secretary to establish standards for such programs. (Sec. 16) Directs the Secretary to contract with a qualified organization or agency to conduct studies of the effects and costs of OSHA standards. Authorizes appropriations.",2026-03-23T12:47:58Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/4597 103-hjres-377,103,hjres,377,"Designating June 27, 1994, as ""Veterans Employment Day"".",Labor and Employment,1994-06-16,1994-06-16,Referred to the House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.,House,"Rep. Montgomery, G. V. (Sonny) [D-MS-3]",MS,D,M000865,1,"Authorizes the President to designate June 27, 1994, as Veterans Employment Day.",2024-02-06T20:04:02Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-joint-resolution/377 103-hr-4547,103,hr,4547,To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt certain educational enterprise employees from the minimum wage and overtime compensation provisions of such Act.,Labor and Employment,1994-06-08,1994-06-22,"Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor Standards, Occupational Health and Safety.",House,"Rep. Geren, Pete [D-TX-12]",TX,D,G000134,0,"Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt from minimum wage and overtime compensation provisions employees of educational enterprises recognized as independent school districts who: (1) are employed to serve as parents of children enrolled and residing at facilities of such enterprises; (2) reside at such facilities; (3) receive free board and lodging from such enterprises; and (4) are compensated at an annual rate of at least $6,900.",2026-03-23T12:47:58Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/4547 103-hr-4517,103,hr,4517,To reinstate the emergency unemployment compensation program.,Labor and Employment,1994-05-26,1994-06-27,Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials.,House,"Rep. Klink, Ron [D-PA-4]",PA,D,K000270,18,"Amends the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 1991 to extend the authorization for new claims for benefits under the emergency unemployment compensation program to August 5, 1994. Modifies the final phase-out period for continuation of claims to end it on September 30, 1994. Provides for a similar extension of the program of temporary extended railroad unemployment insurance benefits (and modification of the phase-out period). Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to repeal the export enhancement program of the Department of Agriculture (in order to fund the extensions of unemployment compensation under this Act).",2024-02-07T16:32:33Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/4517 103-hr-4461,103,hr,4461,Workforce Diversity Partnership Act of 1994,Labor and Employment,1994-05-19,1994-06-22,Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education and Civil Rights.,House,"Rep. Owens, Major R. [D-NY-11]",NY,D,O000159,2,"Workforce Diversity Partnership Act of 1994 - Establishes a workforce diversity grant program. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make such grants for various research, education, and training activities relating to workforce and cultural diversity. Makes eligible for such grants partnerships of an institution of higher education with one or more of the following organizations: (1) a for-profit or nonprofit corporation, business, or partnership; (2) a labor organization; or (3) an organization with demonstrated interest or expertise in workforce diversity issues. Sets forth requirements for applications, uses of funds, selection criteria, peer review panels, Federal and non-Federal shares, and reports. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T13:48:59Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/4461 103-hr-4437,103,hr,4437,To extend the emergency unemployment compensation program.,Labor and Employment,1994-05-17,1994-05-24,Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.,House,"Rep. Hinchey, Maurice D. [D-NY-26]",NY,D,H000627,1,"Amends the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 1991 to extend the authorization for new claims for benefits under the emergency unemployment compensation program to November 30, 1994. Modifies the final phase-out period for continuation of claims to end it on May 30, 1995.",2024-02-07T16:32:33Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/4437 103-hr-4407,103,hr,4407,CAREERS Act,Labor and Employment,1994-05-12,1994-06-09,Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.,House,"Rep. Goodling, William F. [R-PA-19]",PA,R,G000291,12,"TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Federal Responsibilities Subtitle A: Federal Workforce Preparation and Development Council Subtitle B: National Commission for Employment Policy Subtitle C: Federal Waiver Authority for Provisions of Workforce Preparation and Development Programs Subtitle D: Implementation Grants and Technical Assistance Title II: State Responsibilities Subtitle A: State Human Resource Investment Council Subtitle B: Unified Single State Plan Subtitle C: Unified Service Areas Subtitle D: Local Workforce Development Boards Subtitle E: Community Job Resource Centers Title III: Consolidation of Federal Workforce Preparation and Development Programs Subtitle A: Adult Education and Literacy State Block Grant Programs Subtitle B: Vocational and Technical Education State Block Grant Program Subtitle C: State Vocational Rehabilitation Block Grant Program Subtitle D: Adult Employment and Training System Subtitle E: Youth Employment and Training Block Grant Program Subtitle F: Native Americans' Employment, Training, and Education Block Grant Program Subtitle G: Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers Employment, Training, and Education Block Grant Program Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions Title V: Effective Dates and Transition Consolidated and Reformed Education, Employment, and Retraining Systems Act (CAREERS Act) - Establishes a comprehensive workforce preparation and development (WPD) system. Title I: Federal Responsibilities - Subtitle A: Federal Workforce Preparation and Development Council - Establishes the Federal Workforce Preparation and Development Council, consisting of the Secretaries of Labor, Education, Health and Human Services, and Commerce, the Director of the Office of Management and the Budget, and any other Federal agency heads the President may designate. Requires the Federal Council to develop a strategic WPD plan for the United States and report to the President and the Congress. Subtitle B: National Commission for Employment Policy - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to establish a National Commission for Employment Policy. Directs the Commission to study existing WPD programs and develop recommendations on reforms necessary for a comprehensive WPD system for the President, the Congress, and the Federal Council. Subtitle C: Federal Waiver Authority for Provisions of Workforce Preparation and Development Programs - Authorizes the Federal Council to waive provisions of law or regulations relating to State planning and reporting, performance standards, or other provisions with respect to WPD programs under unified State plans. Sets forth provisions for waiver applications, review, approval or disapproval, and revocation. Subtitle D: Implementation Grants and Technical Assistance - Authorizes the Federal Council to provide grants and technical assistance to States that have an approved application to carry out the single State plan. Requires a State to provide at least 70 percent of such a grant to the Local Boards. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: State Responsibilities - Subtitle A: State Human Resource Investment Council - Requires any participant State to establish a State human resource investment council to assist the Governor in developing a coordinated State strategy for WPD programs, including school-to-work transition and lifelong learning programs. Subtitle B: Unified Single State Plan - Requires any participant State to: (1) establish a unified single State plan to coordinate services under WPD programs; and (2) report annually to the Federal Council on progress in achieving plan goals. Expresses the sense of the Congress that States and unified service areas should use cost-effective methods for collecting data for post-program follow-up of participants of WPD programs. Subtitle C: Unified Service Areas - Requires any participant State to ensure establishment of unified service areas throughout the State to provide community-wide WPD services. Subtitle D: Local Workforce Development Boards - Requires any participant State to ensure establishment of a Local Workforce Development Board in each unified service area. Requires a participant Local Board, in partnership with local governments, to submit an annual unified local plan to the State Council for approval. Subtitle E: Community Job Resource Centers - Requires any participant State to ensure that each Local Board designates or establishes a network of community job resource centers in its unified service area, to be composed of specified entities. Title III: Consolidation of Federal Workforce Preparation and Development Programs - Subtitle A: Adult Education and Literacy State Block Grant Programs - Amends the Adult Education Act (AEA) to authorize appropriations for FY 1995 and 1996 for: (1) the State Block Grant program authorized under the State Adult Education and Literacy Program, with a limited portion for certain additional State activities; and (2) national activities, including the National Institute for Literacy. (Sec. 302) Allows a portion of such block grants to States to also be used for the following additional programs: correctional education, State literacy resource centers, workplace literacy, English literacy, and training of literacy teachers and volunteers. (Sec. 303) Revises four-year State plan provisions to require description of steps to be taken in continuing programs for correctional education, State literacy resource centers, workforce literacy, and the homeless. Focuses on use and training of adult and elderly volunteers. (Sec. 304) Repeals specified AEA provisions, including: (1) a reservation of funds for national activities; (2) mandatory reserved funds for programs for corrections education and education of other institutionalized individuals; (3) mandatory reserved funds for special experimental demonstration projects and teacher training; (4) grants for State literacy resource centers; (5) grants for adult literacy volunteer training from certain reserved funds; and (6) workplace literacy and English literacy grants. (Sec. 306) Repeals provisions of the: (1) National Literacy Act relating to literacy for incarcerated individuals; (2) Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 relating to the Vista Literacy Corps; and (3) Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act relating to literacy initiatives for adult homeless individuals. Subtitle B: Vocational and Technical Education State Block Grant Program - Amends the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1995 and 1996 for: (1) the State Block Grant program, with certain amounts for territories and for employment and training block grant programs for Native Americans under the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA); and (2) national activities, with a certain amount for the National Council on Vocational Education. (Sec. 312) Revises provisions for State allotments and within-State allocation. Repeals provisions relating to State administration and for authorization of appropriations for State councils on vocational education. (Sec. 313) Requires State plans to describe the extent to which the State Vocational Education Block Grant provides for programs for single parents, displaced homemakers, single pregnant women, sex equity, and tech prep. Adds to authorized activities under State programs: business-labor-education partnerships, corrections education, and support for consumer and homemaking education. Includes under authorized activities for other State-administered programs: comprehensive career guidance and counseling and consumer and homemaking education. (Sec. 314) Revises provisions for mandatory use of funds for programs for single parents, displaced homemakers, and single pregnant women, and for sex equity. Repeals provisions for programs for criminal offenders. (Sec. 315) Eliminates a special rule for minimal allocation. Establishes a tech-prep education program. Directs State Boards to award grants for four-year tech-prep education programs to consortia of specified secondary and higher education entities. (Sec. 316) Repeals provisions for various Special Programs. (Sec. 317) Revises provisions for demonstration programs to authorize the Secretary of Education to make demonstration grants to improve vocational education programs. (Currently requires such grants to be made for specific types of programs.) Repeals provisions for Bilingual Vocational Training. Subtitle C: State Vocational Rehabilitation Block Grant Program - Amends the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (RA) to consolidate certain employment-related programs, including supported employment for individuals with most severe disabilities, special recreation activities and services, and projects with industry. Reserves certain RA funds for Native American employment and training block grant programs under JTPA. Subtitle D: Adult Employment and Training System - Allows a State or eligible unified service area to combine funds received under one or more programs described in this subtitle or the Wagner-Peyser Act to develop and implement an integrated adult employment and training system. Requires a single application and State plan to combine such funds. Allows an eligible unified service area to combine such funds, with State approval and consistent with the State plan approved by the Secretary of Labor, if it has adopted a one-stop delivery system. Chapter 1: Disadvantaged Adult Employment and Training Block Grant Program - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) to revise allocation and allotment provisions, including State reservations of funds, limitations, and State activities. (Sec. 342) Requires each service delivery area to ensure equitable provision of training and placement opportunities for older individuals in private sector jobs. (Sec 343) Renames JTPA title II part A as the Disadvantaged Adult Employment and Training Block Grant Program. Authorizes appropriations. Repeals: (1) incentive grants for certain JTPA title II programs that exceed performance standards; and (2) certain program design provisions for services for older individuals. Repeals specified provisions for job training for the homeless under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (except homeless veterans' reintegration projects). Chapter 2: Dislocated Worker Employment and Training Block Grant Program - Amends JTPA title III dislocated worker provisions to include skills upgrading under authorized retraining services. (Sec. 352) Requires that special consideration for eligibility for needs-related payments be given to workers dislocated due to Federal policies, including trade policy, in particular the North American Free-Trade Agreement, or reductions of defense spending or closures of military facilities. (Sec. 353) Authorizes appropriations for the JTPA title III Dislocated Worker Employment and Training Block Grant Program for FY 1995 and thereafter. Repeals JTPA provisions relating to programs for: (1) defense conversion adjustment; (2) defense diversification; and (3) clean air employment transition assistance. Repeals the program of adjustment assistance for workers under the Trade Act of 1974. Renames JTPA title III as the Dislocated Worker Employment and Training Block Grant Program. (Sec. 354) Makes funds from such aforementioned repealed programs under JTPA and the Trade Act of 1974 available for JTPA title III. Chapter 3: Veterans' Employment and Training Block Grant Program - Renames and revises JTPA title IV part C veterans' employment programs provisions as the Veterans' Employment and Training Block Grant Program. (Sec. 362) Makes available for such JTPA program any unobligated or unexpended funds under the Service Members Occupational Conversion and Training Act of 1992 and specified provisions of Federal laws relating to: (1) disabled veterans outreach; (2) local veterans employment representatives; (3) homeless veterans' reintegration projects; (4) veterans' vocational rehabilitation; and (5) job counseling, training and placement service for veterans. (Sec. 363) Directs the Secretary of Labor, through the Assistant Secretary of Veterans Employment and Training and in cooperation with the Secretary of Defense, to provide for orderly implementation of the Veterans' Employment and Training Block Grant Program under JTPA. (Sec. 364) Repeals, after a transition period, the Service Members Occupational Conversion and Training Act of 1992 and specified provisions of Federal law relating to: (1) veterans' employment and training opportunities and employment assistance; (2) disabled veterans outreach, local veterans employment representatives, and their performance; and (3) homeless veterans' reintegration projects. (Sec. 365) Authorizes appropriations. Chapter 4: Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Act - Amends the Social Security Act to transfer authority over the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) program to the Secretary of Labor. Directs the Secretary to develop performance standards for such program and issue regulations to coordinate administration of such program at Federal, State, and local levels with JTPA programs. Subtitle E: Youth Employment and Training Block Grant Program - Amends JTPA title II part C youth training program provisions to provide for a comprehensive range of integrated education, training, employment and social services to disadvantaged and at risk disadvantaged youth not currently served, or underserved, by existing Federal education and training programs particularly in areas of high poverty or crime. (Sec. 373) Sets age 14 through 21 as part of eligibility criteria. (Sec. 374) Includes under authorized services specified outreach and recruitment efforts. Requires use of strategies and practices based on comprehensive and integrated service delivery, innovative approaches to serving hardest-to-serve youths, and programs with community support that make use of various resources and entities. Allows a portion of youth training funds to be used for specified summer youth employment and training activities. (Sec. 375) Adds to JTPA youth training program linkages the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994. (Sec. 376) Renames JTPA title II part C youth training programs provisions as the Disadvantaged Youth Employment and Training Block Grant Program. Authorizes appropriations. Repeals JTPA title II part B summer youth employment and training program and title IV part H Youth Fair Chance program. Subtitle F: Native Americans' Employment, Training, and Education Block Grant Program - Amends JTPA title IV part A Native American programs to include tribally controlled postsecondary vocational institutions among program providers. (Sec. 383) Adds to comprehensive plan requirements, including strategic overviews and coordination with similar programs. (Sec 384) Directs the Native American Employment and Training Council to advise the Secretaries of Education and of the Interior, as well as the Secretary of Labor, and to recommend ways of consolidating other Native American employment and training programs into the JTPA program. (Sec 385) Makes available for the JTPA Native American Block Grant program unobligated or unexpended funds under the specified Act and portions of Acts which are repealed in the following section. (Sec. 386) Repeals the Indian Employment, Training, and Related Services Act of 1992 and specified provisions under the Indian Education Act, the Social Security Act, the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. (Sec. 387) Renames the JTPA program as the Native American Block Grant program. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle G: Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers Employment, Training, and Education Block Grant Program - Amends JTPA title IV part A migrant and seasonal farmworker programs to require their being designed to help such farmworkers complete a secondary education and begin and successfully complete the first year of postsecondary education. (Sec. 392) Makes available for the JTPA farmworker block grant program unobligated or unexpended funds under the specified provisions repealed under other Acts in the following section. (Sec. 393) Repeals: (1) special programs for students whose families are engaged in migrant and seasonal farmwork, under the Higher Education Act of 1965; and (2) the adult migrant farmworker and immigrant education program, under the Adult Education Act. (Sec. 394) Renames the JTPA program as the Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Block Grant program. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends JTPA to revise and rename State education coordination and grants provisions as State workforce preparation and development coordination and innovation grants. Requires program coordination and linkages with specified other JTPA programs and with the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Adult Education Act, JOBS program, Goals 2000: Educate America Act, School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994, and National and Community Service Act of 1990. (Sec. 402) Amends the Wagner-Peyser Act to require the local employment service office to participate in the operation of the community job resource centers established under this Act based on the plan developed by the Local Board. Allows such offices to apply to be designated as such centers. Repeals specified provisions under the Food Stamp Act of 1977, Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973, Internal Revenue Code, Higher Education Act of 1965, and Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965. Title V: Effective Dates and Transition - Sets forth effective dates and transition provisions.",2026-03-23T12:41:21Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/4407 103-hr-4411,103,hr,4411,National Environmental Training and Employment Act of 1994,Labor and Employment,1994-05-12,1994-06-09,Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations.,House,"Rep. Klink, Ron [D-PA-4]",PA,D,K000270,17,"TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: National Environmental Response Training Program Subtitle A: Certification, Training, and Accreditation Program Subtitle B: Health and Safety Program Title II: National Environmental Response Employment Program Title III: Federal Environmental Coordination Committee and Related Provisions Title IV: Administration and Enforcement National Environmental Training and Employment Act of 1994 - Provides for training, health and safety, employment opportunities, and certification for environmental response employees and employers, emergency responders, and environmental training providers. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the various titles of this Act. Allows other funds to be used to carry out this Act from appropriations for programs, projects, or activities administered by the Departments of Defense, of Energy, of Housing and Urban Development, of the Interior, of Labor, and of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Environmental Protection Agency. Title I: National Environmental Response Training Program - Subtitle A: Certification, Training, and Accreditation Program - Directs the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) to establish a National Environmental Training Program to: (1) certify environmental response employers (through a National Certification Program in the Department of Labor); (2) train and certify environmental response employees and emergency responders; and (3) accredit environmental training providers. Subtitle B: Health and Safety Program - Directs the Secretary to establish a national safety and health program covering environmental response employees and emergency responders. Allows such program to be implemented and managed, at the Secretary's discretion, by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Requires such program to include minimum standard medical examination protocols, a medical surveillance program, and a national injury/illness/fatality surveillance system. Title II: National Environmental Response Employment Program - Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a program to ensure employment of minorities and women in activities covered by this Act; and (2) in cooperation with the Secretary of Defense, a program to ensure availability of training and employment in activities covered by this Act for displaced military personnel. Directs the Secretary to provide grants to: (1) public agencies and nonprofit employee organizations qualifying as accredited providers to train environmental emergency responders; (2) joint labor-managed training trust funds and labor organizations accredited as providers for training and related activities for environmental workers subject to this Act; (3) nonprofit veterans' organizations for recruitment and counseling services for recently separated members of the military and other veterans, in connection with environmental response training; and (4) nonprofit minority and women's organizations for recruitment and counseling services for minority and female applicants, in connection with environmental response training. Title III: Federal Environmental Coordination Committee and Related Provisions - Establishes the Federal Environmental Coordination Committee, including the heads of the aforementioned Federal departments and agencies. Provides for: (1) enforcement of this Act through Federal contracting procedures; (2) cooperation with States; (3) accreditation and certification/licensure fees; and (4) environmental workforce research and studies. Title IV: Administration and Enforcement - Directs the Secretary to promulgate regulations to carry out this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to seek judicial relief and civil penalties for failure to comply with this Act.",2026-03-23T12:47:58Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/4411 103-hr-4415,103,hr,4415,Black Lung Benefits Restoration Act of 1994,Labor and Employment,1994-05-12,1994-06-10,See H.R.2108.,House,"Rep. Murphy, Austin J. [D-PA-20]",PA,D,M001088,0,"Black Lung Benefits Restoration Act of 1994 - Amends the Black Lung Benefits Act (the Act) to provide that, when black lung benefits are paid after an initial determination of eligibility, repayment of an overpayment will not be required even upon a final determination of ineligibility, if there was no fraud or deception by the claimant. Provides for refunds to claimants of any such repayments required before this Act. Provides for reimbursement by the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund to operators who made such benefit overpayments. (Sec. 3) Revises evidence requirements. Prohibits the responsible operator or the Trust Fund from requiring more than one medical examination to controvert medical evidence presented by a claimant on the basis of a medical examination. Prohibits any claimant from offering more than three medical examinations; but authorizes the administrative law judge to require the claimant to submit to an additional medical examination. (Sec. 4) Revises requirements for survivor benefits. Provides that a miner's death shall be considered to have occurred as a result of the pneumoconiosis if the miner was receiving benefits for, or was disabled by, pneumoconiosis at the time of death. Qualifies to receive survivor benefits any widow or widower of a miner who was married to the miner for at least nine months preceding the miner's death, or who had children as a result of such a marriage. Provides that widows or widowers of miners are not disqualified to receive survivor benefits if they remarry after attaining age 50, but prohibits them from receiving an augmentation in survivor benefits on any basis arising out of a subsequent marriage. (Sec. 5) Provides for notice and an opportunity for a hearing to appeal to the Secretary any designation of liability as the responsible operator. Authorizes assessment of proceeding costs against any operator who does not have reasonable grounds to contest the designation. (Sec. 6) Requires that all reasonable legal costs and expenses incurred by the claimant be paid by the responsible operator, or the Trust Fund, after an administrative or judicial determination that the claimant is entitled to black lung benefits. Requires the Secretary or court to take action to assure that they are paid within 45 days after such determination. Requires the Trust Fund to pay any operator the legal costs the operator paid to a claimant determined in a later proceeding to be ineligible for benefits. (Sec. 7) Prohibits a claimant or respondent from appealing to the Benefits Review Board any order unless it has been made by an administrative law judge. (Sec. 8) Allows any claim filed under the Act after January 1, 1982, but before enactment of this Act, to be refiled after enactment of this Act for a de novo review on the merits. (Sec. 9) Provides for coverage of coke oven operators (or operators of machine shops or other operations reasonably related to coke ovens) under the Act and the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act. (Sec. 10) Requires that the legislative history accompanying this Act be considered controlling if a term in any amendment made by this Act is considered ambiguous in any legal proceeding. (Sec. 11) Makes attorney fees provisions of this Act applicable only to new claims filed after October 1, 1994.",2026-03-23T12:47:58Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/4415 103-hr-4367,103,hr,4367,Pension Reform Act of 1993,Labor and Employment,1994-05-05,1994-06-09,Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations.,House,"Rep. Kennelly, Barbara B. [D-CT-1]",CT,D,K000118,0,"Pension Reform Act of 1993 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) with respect to pension integration, participation, and vesting requirements. Extends applicability of new integration rules under the Tax Reform Act of 1986 to all existing accrued benefits. Amends the IRC to disallow integration for simplified employee pensions, by repealing provisions relating to permitted disparity under rules limiting discrimination under simplified employee pensions. Provides for eventual repeal of certain integration rules, by repealing for plan years beginning on or after January 1, 2002, IRC provisions relating to: (1) pension integration exceptions under nondiscrimination requirements for qualification; and (2) nondiscriminatory coordination of defined contribution plans with Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance. Revises IRC minimum coverage requirements with respect to separate lines of business. Sets forth a special rule where the employer operates a single line of business. Limits a line of business exception. Eliminates a special vesting rule for multiemployer plans under IRC and ERISA. Provides for division of pension benefits upon divorce unless otherwise provided in qualified domestic relations orders. Provides for the continued availability of remedies relating to rights of spouses to accrued benefits under pension plans under divorce case domestic relations orders entered before 1985. Amends the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 to revise provisions relating to divorced wives' eligibility for annuities.",2026-03-23T12:41:21Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/4367 103-s-2077,103,s,2077,Community Improvement Volunteer Act of 1994,Labor and Employment,1994-05-04,1994-05-04,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Hatfield, Mark O. [R-OR]",OR,R,H000343,2,"Community Improvement Volunteer Act of 1994 - Provides for waivers of the prevailing-wage-setting requirements of the Davis-Bacon Act with respect to volunteers who perform services under the Library Services and Construction Act, the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, or migrant health centers or community health centers provisions of the Public Health Service Act. Prohibits approval of any expense, benefit, or fee being paid to such volunteers which has the effect of undermining labor standards by creating downward pressure on prevailing wages in the local construction industry. Directs the Secretary of Labor to report to the appropriate congressional committees on such waivers for volunteers on such projects and make recommendations with respect to other Davis-Bacon-related Acts that could be addressed to permit volunteer work.",2025-08-26T13:51:24Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/2077 103-hr-4303,103,hr,4303,To provide for a change in the exemption from the child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 for minors between 16 and 18 years of age who engage in the operation of automobiles and trucks.,Labor and Employment,1994-04-26,1994-05-17,"Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor Standards, Occupational Health and Safety.",House,"Rep. Kreidler, Mike [D-WA-9]",WA,D,K000328,23,Directs the Secretary of Labor to issue a final rule within one year to amend the exemption from child labor restrictions under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 for minors between 16 and 18 years of age who operate automobiles or trucks under a certain weight to: (1) eliminate the requirement that such operation be only occasional and incidental to the minor's employment; and (2) add the requirement that such operation not be the primary duty of the minor's employment.,2026-03-23T12:47:58Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/4303 103-s-2051,103,s,2051,Volunteer Firefighter and Rescue Squad Worker Act,Labor and Employment,1994-04-26,1994-04-26,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Warner, John [R-VA]",VA,R,W000154,3,Volunteer Firefighter and Rescue Squad Worker Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exclude from coverage any employee fire fighters or rescue squad members during the period in which they volunteer their services at a location where they are not employed. Waives overtime compensation requirements when fire fighters or rescue squad members volunteer their services to their employer and sign a legally binding waiver. Prohibits employer coercion of such volunteering.,2025-08-26T13:51:19Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/2051 103-hr-4288,103,hr,4288,Labor Law Enforcement Act of 1994,Labor and Employment,1994-04-21,1994-05-17,"Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor Standards, Occupational Health and Safety.",House,"Rep. Torres, Esteban Edward [D-CA-34]",CA,D,T000316,19,"Labor Law Enforcement Act of 1994 - Increases, within the Wage and Hour Division of the Employment Standards Administration of the Department of Labor, the number of full-time positions assigned to investigate violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Amends the Service Contract Act to make applicable to contracts subject to liability for specified violations certain enforcement provisions of Federal law and regulations of the Secretary of Labor under the Copeland Act. Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase damages for violations of information and recordkeeping requirements. Amends the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act to increase damages for violations of information and recordkeeping requirements.",2026-03-23T12:47:58Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/4288 103-hr-4240,103,hr,4240,"To ensure that defense conversion, reinvestment, and transition assistance programs of the Department of Defense are directed primarily toward those States (and areas within those States) that have experienced the greatest number of job losses as a result of reductions in defense spending or the closure or realignment of military installations.",Labor and Employment,1994-04-18,1994-05-03,Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations.,House,"Rep. Machtley, Ronald K. [R-RI-1]",RI,R,M000015,0,"Directs the Secretary of Labor to: (1) determine annually the number of employment positions lost in each State since January 1, 1985, as a result of reductions in defense expenditures, the termination of defense contracts (including new weapon systems), or the closure or realignment of military installations; (2) rank each State based on the number of job losses due to such factors; (3) report annually to the Congress and the Secretary of Defense on such job loss determinations; and (4) target to States with the highest percentage of such total job losses any assistance available under defense conversion, reinvestment, and transition assistance programs for a fiscal year.",2026-03-23T12:41:21Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/4240 103-hr-4222,103,hr,4222,"To amend the Job Training Partnership Act to establish a workforce skills and development loan program to provide grants to States to guarantee loans made to employers, representatives of employees, and other entities to provide skills upgrading for non-managerial employees, and for other purposes.",Labor and Employment,1994-04-14,1994-05-17,Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations.,House,"Rep. Gunderson, Steve [R-WI-3]",WI,R,G000524,9,"Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to establish a workforce skills and development loan program. Directs the Secretary of Labor to use certain amounts to make grants to States to establish reserve funds to guarantee loans to employers, employee representatives, and other eligible entities to provide skills upgrading for non-managerial employees. Gives grant priority to States with demonstrated ability to expeditiously establish and carry out such loan programs. Requires the capacity building and information and dissemination network to include information relating to such skills upgrading activities.",2026-03-23T12:41:21Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/4222 103-hr-4184,103,hr,4184,Full Employment Opportunity and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 1994,Labor and Employment,1994-04-13,1994-05-03,Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations.,House,"Rep. Collins, Barbara-Rose [D-MI-15]",MI,D,C000633,4,"Full Employment Opportunity and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 1994 - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to establish a public works and public service job training program. Sets forth provisions for allotment to States, allocation to service delivery areas, program conduct and project requirements, individual eligibility, wages, benefits, and supportive services, waiver of education requirements, and linkages to other programs. Requires that private industry councils include representatives of the State apprenticeship council.",2026-03-23T12:41:21Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/4184 103-hr-4150,103,hr,4150,To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to make uniform the application of the overtime exemption for inside sales personnel.,Labor and Employment,1994-03-24,1994-10-06,Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2091),House,"Rep. Murphy, Austin J. [D-PA-20]",PA,D,M001088,5,"Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to apply an overtime exemption to employees of any establishment (currently, any retail or service establishment) whose regular rate of pay exceeds one and one-half times the minimum wage and more than half of whose compensation represents commissions on goods or services.",2026-03-23T12:47:58Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/4150 103-s-1964,103,s,1964,Reemployment and Retraining Act of 1994,Labor and Employment,1994-03-24,1994-04-11,Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 406.,Senate,"Sen. Metzenbaum, Howard M. [D-OH]",OH,D,M000678,15,"TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Comprehensive Program for Worker Reemployment Title II: One-Stop Career Center System Title III: National Labor Market Information System Title IV: Reinvention Labs for Job Training for the Economically Disadvantaged Reemployment and Retraining Act of 1994 - Establishes: (1) a comprehensive program for worker reemployment; (2) a one-stop career center system; (3) a national labor market information system; and (4) reinvention labs for job training for the economically disadvantaged. (Sec. 4) Authorizes appropriations for titles I, II, and III of this Act. Title I: Comprehensive Program for Worker Reemployment - Allots funds among States and reserves certain funds for national activities. (Sec. 103) Makes certain permanently laid-off workers and long-term unemployed individuals (as well as workers facing imminent plant shutdowns and self-employed individuals unemployed because of community economic conditions or natural disasters) eligible for services under this title. Makes dislocated homemakers eligible if a State Governor deems this appropriate and certain conditions are met. Part A: State and Substate Delivery System - Makes States responsible for administrative and management systems under this title. (Sec. 112) Requires the Governor to designate or establish a dislocated worker unit at the State level, with specified rapid response, information, and coordination functions. Directs such unit to coordinate with substate grantees and career centers, and to promote worker-management transition assistance committees. Provides for rapid response coverage of certain layoffs, State funding of preliminary assessments of worker buyouts of plants, prohibition of State transfer of rapid response functions, and Federal oversight of such functions. (Sec. 113) Requires the Governor to develop and maintain a comprehensive labor market information system in the State that meets certain requirements relating to the national system of effective labor market information. (Sec. 114) Requires the Governor to coordinate programs under this title with the worker profiling system under the Social Security Act and the retraining income support program under this Act. (Sec. 115) Authorizes the Governor to award supplementary grants to eligible entities to provide authorized services to eligible individuals in areas of the State experiencing substantial increases in numbers of such individuals due to plant closures, base closures, and mass layoffs. Allows such grant funds to be used to establish additional service centers, including on-site transition centers. (Sec. 116) Authorizes the Governor to award job retention project grants for upgrading skills of workers at risk of permanent layoff and retraining workers in new technologies and work processes to help convert or restructure businesses into high performance work organizations and avert plant closings or substantial layoffs. Requires State and employer contributions. Requires consultation with unions. (Sec. 117) Requires establishment of substate area administrative structures. (Sec. 118) Requires each designated substate grantee to establish one or more career centers in that area. Allows additional, temporary on-site transition centers. (Sec. 119) Authorizes substate area funds to be used for the following services for eligible individuals: (1) basic reemployment services; (2) intensive reemployment services; (3) education and training services; (4) retraining income support; (5) supportive services; and (6) supplemental wage allowances for older workers. (Sec. 120) Allows a career center to issue a certificate of continuing eligibility for services to eligible individuals who are accepting employment at a significantly lower wage than their previous one or in an occupation significantly different from their previous one. Part B: Federal Service Delivery System - Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish a program of national discretionary grants to address large-scale economic dislocations resulting from plant closures, base closures, or mass layoffs. Allows such grants to be used for providing comprehensive planning services to assist communities in addressing and reducing the impact of an economic dislocation and for establishing on-site transition centers. (Sec. 132) Directs the Secretary to make funds available for disaster relief employment assistance to States for substate allocation. (Sec. 133) Directs the Secretary to provide for: (1) evaluation of programs under this title; (2) research on addressing economic dislocation, facilitating the transition of permanently laid-off workers to reemployment, and upgrading skills of employed workers; and (3) demonstration projects to develop and improve methods of addressing economic dislocation and promoting worker adjustment. (Sec. 134) Directs the Secretary to provide staff training and technical assistance to various entities to enhance their capacity to develop and deliver adjustment assistance services to workers and to avert plant closings or substantial layoffs. Requires integration of such activities with those of the Capacity Building and Information and Dissemination Network. (Sec. 135) Directs the Secretary to provide for delivery of programs, activities, and services under this title in any State that chooses not to participate. Part C: Performance Standards and Quality Assurance Systems - Directs the Secretary to establish a process, including an annual meeting, in each State to promote development of a customer service compact among parties administering programs under this title. (Sec. 152) Directs the Secretary to prescribe performance standards relating separately to the substate grantees and the career centers. Directs Governors to prescribe adjustments to such standards and award incentive grants to grantees and centers exceeding such standards. (Sec. 153) Requires each substate grantee to establish methods for obtaining customer feedback from eligible individuals and employers who have received services from a career center. (Sec. 154) Makes providers of education and training services eligible to receive funds under this title if they are eligible to participate under student aid provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965 or are determined eligible under alternative procedures established by Governors, and if they provide performance-based information. Exempts on-the-job training providers from such requirements. Part D: General Requirements - Sets forth general requirements for programs under this title, including provisions for benefits, labor standards, and grievance procedures. Part E: Fiscal Administrative Provisions - Sets forth various administrative provisions, including ones for program year, prompt allocation of funds, monitoring, fiscal controls and sanctions, reports, recordkeeping, and investigations, administrative adjudication, nondiscrimination, judicial review, nondiscrimination, and criminal provisions. Part F: Miscellaneous Provisions - Provides for transition, on July 1, 1995, to programs authorized under this title from the following programs, which this Act repeals, under employment and training assistance for dislocated workers provisions of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA): (1) Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance Program; (2) Defense Conversion Adjustment Program; (3) Defense Diversification Program; and (4) Clean Air Employment Transition Assistance Program. Terminates the Disaster Relief Employment Assistance program under JTPA. Title II: One-Stop Career Center System - Part A: Components of Voluntary One-Stop Career Center System - Requires a State's one-stop career center system, in order to receive a grant or waiver under this title, to include: (1) local workforce investment boards; (2) one-stop career centers established in accordance with specified procedures; (3) provision of specified services; (4) participation of specified Federal programs; (5) operating agreements for such centers; (6) quality assurance systems; and (6) a State Human Resource Investment Council. (Sec. 212) Directs the Governor to designate one-stop service areas within the State. Directs local officials to establish a workforce investment board for each such area. (Sec. 213) Directs the Governor and local officials to jointly select a consortium option or a multiple independent operator option as the method for establishing one-stop career centers for each service area. (Sec. 214) Requires each center to make available: (1) certain basic services to the public free of charge; and (2) certain intensive services to participants in the title I comprehensive program for worker reemployment who are unable to obtain employment through the basic services (and, optionally, to other individuals in accordance with the written agreement). Authorizes each center to provide specialized services to employers and additional services specified in the agreement. Authorizes charging fees under specified conditions, with all program income to be used to expand or enhance services. (Sec. 215) Requires the following programs to be made available to participants through the centers and to participate in operation of such centers as parties to the agreement: (1) comprehensive programs for worker reemployment under title I of this Act; (2) Wagner-Peyser Act programs (employment services); (3) job counseling, training, and placement for veterans; (4) training services for the disadvantaged under title II of JTPA; and (5) community service employment for Older Americans Act. Allows other human resource programs to provide services through and participate in operation of the centers, under specified conditions, including the Food Stamp Employment and Training program, the Job Corps, veterans' employment programs under JTPA, and programs under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act, Adult Education Act, Vocational Rehabilitation Act, and School-to-Work Opportunities Act. (Sec. 216) Sets forth requirements for operating agreements and quality assurance systems. (Sec. 218) Requires each State to establish a State human resource investment council that meets specified JTPA requirements and carries out certain additional functions including advising on development and implementation of the one-stop career center system. Part B: Grants and Waivers to Promote the Development and Implementation of One-Stop Career Center System - Authorizes the Secretary to establish programs of competitive grants to States for planning and development and for implementation of comprehensive statewide networks of one-stop career centers. (Sec. 233) Allows a State, at any point during such development or implementation, to request from the Secretary a waiver of one or more statutory or regulatory provisions from the Secretary. Sets forth waiver criteria. Subjects to such waiver authority the mandatory participating programs of the centers. (Sec. 234) Provides for pooling of administrative resources. Part C: Additional Activities in Support of One-Stop Career Center Systems - Directs the Secretary to establish a process, with each State implementing the one-stop career center system, including an annual meeting, to promote development of a customer service compact among the parties administering the system. (Sec. 235) Makes each State implementing such a system responsible for administration, management, monitoring, and technical assistance. (Sec. 236) Makes the Secretary responsible for monitoring compliance, staff training and technical assistance (integrated with the Capacity Building and Information Dissemination Network under JTPA), a national logo and name, and evaluation of one-stop career center programs. Part D: Effective Date - Sets forth effective dates for this title and for performance standards. Title III: National Labor Market Information System - Directs the Secretary to develop, in coordination with other Federal, State, and local entities, a strategy to establish a nationwide system of local labor market information. (Sec. 303) Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with such other entities and public-private partnerships, to develop such system to make available specified types of information. Requires certain technical standards, consumer reports, and evaluation. (Sec. 304) Directs the Secretary to provide for coordination and integration of such system and appropriate dissemination of information. Title IV: Reinvention Labs for Job Training for the Economically Disadvantaged - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) to establish a five-year Reinvention Labs program to: (1) encourage innovative program designs to improve provision of services to and labor market outcomes for economically disadvantaged youth and adults; (2) develop, through service delivery areas (SDAs) and States, knowledge of effective approaches to providing employment and training to the economically disadvantaged; and (3) provide SDAs with increased flexibility in operating job training programs, in exchange for greater accountability. (Sec. 401) Sets forth requirements for SDA applications for waivers of Federal requirements relating to programs under JTPA provisions for employment and training of the economically disadvantaged. Authorizes the Secretary to waive certain of such requirements under specified conditions and to provide technical assistance to SDAs, States, and service providers for Reinvention Labs programs. (Sec. 402) Modifies the definition of tuition under JTPA.",2025-08-26T13:52:07Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1964 103-s-1969,103,s,1969,Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Amendments Act,Labor and Employment,1994-03-24,1994-04-11,Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 407.,Senate,"Sen. Metzenbaum, Howard M. [D-OH]",OH,D,M000678,8,"Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Amendments Act - Amends the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act to cover employers of 50 or more employees (currently 100). Covers single-site plant closings or mass layoffs affecting 25 or more employees (currently 500 or more, or 50 or more if this comprises one-third of the workers at the site). Eliminates the single-site requirement for plant closings or mass layoffs affecting 100 or more employees, thus covering such closings or layoffs by one employer regardless of the number of sites involved. Specifies that the 90-day aggregate rule covers all related layoffs within that period, whether or not they are each above or below the threshold levels. Extends coverage to part-time employees. (Sec. 3) Revises the notice period based on the number of employees affected: (1) 25-49, 30 days; (2) 50-99, 60 days; and (3) 100 or more, 90 days. (The current period is 60 days.) Requires employer notice to each affected employee (as well as to the employee representative, if there is one). (Sec. 4) Revises and adds enforcement requirements. Adds to employer liability for violations: (1) interest on back pay owed; and (2) an additional amount as liquidated damages equal to the back pay and interest. Limits a good faith exemption to reduction of liability for interest and for a civil penalty. Allows aggrieved employees to enforce employer liability by bringing suit and/or filing a complaint with the Secretary of Labor. Directs the Secretary to investigate and resolve such complaints. Authorizes the Secretary to bring civil actions on behalf of the employee for back pay, interest, benefits, and liquidated damages. Establishes a two-year statute of limitations. (Sec. 5) Requires employers to post notices to employees of pertinent provisions of the Act and information on filing complaints. Establishes fines for willful violations of such posting requirement.",2025-08-26T13:51:16Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1969 103-s-1979,103,s,1979,Sexual Harassment Prevention Act of 1994,Labor and Employment,1994-03-24,1994-03-24,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]",WA,D,M001111,9,"Sexual Harassment Prevention Act of 1994 - Directs employers (including Federal and congressional agencies) to keep posted in conspicuous places a notice prepared or approved by the appropriate primary enforcement agency (the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Office of Fair Employment Practices of the House of Representatives, and the Office of Senate Fair Employment Practices) that sets forth: (1) the definition of sexual harassment found in the Code of Federal Regulations or any corresponding similar regulation; (2) the fact that sexual harassment is a violation of Federal law; (3) information describing how to file a complaint with the agency alleging such harassment; (4) an address and toll-free number to be used to contact the agency; and (5) other information required by the agency. Provides for annual notices by employers to individual employees which provide such information and a description of the procedures used by the employers to resolve allegations of sexual harassment. Requires employers to provide to each supervisory employee information specifying the responsibility of, and the methods to be used by, such employee to ensure that immediate and corrective action is taken to address allegations of sexual harassment. Prescribes civil penalties for willful violations of this Act. Directs each primary enforcement agency to make model notices and voluntary guidelines for procedures dealing with allegations of sexual harassment available to employers at no cost as well as a toll-free number for information regarding this Act. Sets forth provisions governing actions by the primary enforcement agencies to enforce sexual harassment statutes and rules.",2025-08-26T13:48:51Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1979 103-hr-4064,103,hr,4064,To amend the Job Training Partnership Act to provide counseling and guidance relating to postsecondary education options for dislocated workers.,Labor and Employment,1994-03-17,1994-11-14,Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations.,House,"Rep. Johnston, Harry [D-FL-19]",FL,D,J000187,14,"Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to provide that specified funds for employment and training assistance for dislocated workers shall be used to provide counseling and guidance relating to postsecondary education options for eligible dislocated workers, including information on public and private programs of student financial assistance.",2026-03-23T12:41:21Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/4064 103-hr-4072,103,hr,4072,Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Amendments Act,Labor and Employment,1994-03-17,1994-11-14,Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations.,House,"Rep. Ford, William D. [D-MI-13]",MI,D,F000270,1,"Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Amendments Act - Amends the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act to cover employers of 50 or more employees (currently 100). Covers single-site plant closings or mass layoffs affecting 25 or more employees (currently 500 or more, or 50 or more if this comprises one-third of the workers at the site). Eliminates the single-site requirement for plant closings or mass layoffs affecting 100 or more employees, thus covering such closings or layoffs by one employer regardless of the number of sites involved. Specifies that the 90-day aggregate rule covers all related layoffs within that period, whether or not they are each above or below the threshold levels. Extends coverage to part-time employees. (Sec. 3) Revises the notice period based on the number of employees affected: (1) 25-49, 30 days; (2) 50-99, 60 days; and (3) 100 or more, 90 days. (The current period is 60 days.) Requires employer notice to each affected employee (as well as to the employee representative, if there is one). (Sec. 4) Revises and adds enforcement requirements. Adds to employer liability for violations: (1) interest on back pay owed; and (2) an additional amount as liquidated damages equal to the back pay and interest. Limits a good faith exemption to reduction of liability for interest and for a civil penalty. Limits the maximum period for which liability may be calculated. Allows aggrieved employees to enforce employer liability by bringing suit and/or filing a complaint with the Secretary of Labor. Directs the Secretary to investigate and resolve such complaints. Authorizes the Secretary to bring civil actions on behalf of the employee for back pay, interest, benefits, and liquidated damages. Establishes a two-year statute of limitations. (Sec. 5) Requires employers to post notices to employees of pertinent provisions of the Act and information on filing complaints. Establishes fines for willful violations of such posting requirement.",2026-03-23T12:41:21Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/4072 103-s-1943,103,s,1943,Job Training Consolidation Act of 1994,Labor and Employment,1994-03-17,1994-03-17,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Kassebaum, Nancy Landon [R-KS]",KS,R,K000017,9,"TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Use of Federal Funds for State Employment Training Activities Title II: Development of State Employment Training Systems Subtitle A: Commission on Employment and Training Subtitle B: Consolidation of Employment Training Programs Job Training Consolidation Act of 1994 - Consolidates Federal employment and training programs. Grants waivers to States and localities to coordinate program services during a transition period. Establishes a national commission to develop a national policy for a comprehensive system of such services, with State and local responsibility for, and private sector involvement in, design and implementation of such services. Title I: Use of Federal Funds for State Employment Training Activities - Allows States and localities that receive formula assistance for covered activities under specified Federal employment training programs, or certain discretionary assistance, or States that apply for funds for trade adjustment assistance services, to: (1) use such assistance to develop a comprehensive statewide employment training system; or (2) use assistance that would otherwise have been used for two or more covered activities to address unemployed persons' high priority needs for employment training services, improve efficiency in delivery of covered activities, or combine or eliminate overlapping or duplicative activities. (Sec. 105) Requires State and locality reports on use of such assistance. Title II: Development of State Employment Training Systems - Subtitle A: Commission on Employment and Training - Establishes the Commission on Employment and Training. (Sec. 204) Terminates the Commission after its report. (Sec. 205) Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Consolidation of Employment and Training Programs - Repeals, 29 months after enactment of this Act, the following: (1) the Job Training Partnership Act; (2) the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act; (3) certain literacy programs under the Adult Education Act; (4) the JOBS program for AFDC recipients under the Social Security Act; (5) trade adjustment assistance services under the Trade Act of 1974; (6) the Wagner-Peyser Act (employment services); (7) vocational rehabilitation services under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; (8) employment and training program provisions under the Food Stamp Act of 1977; (9) the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980; (10) the State legalization impact assistance grant program under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986; (11) education, training, and community services programs under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act; and (12) community service employment for older Americans under the Older Americans Act of 1965. (Sec. 212) Directs the Commission on Employment and Training to conduct a study to: (1) develop a single, coherent national policy to guide federally funded employment training efforts; (2) review specified programs and reports, and examine strategies to consolidate or eliminate the programs and activities scheduled to be repealed to create a single, comprehensive employment training system that gives States maximum flexibility and leads to single, integrated approaches to providing information on all available employment training services and to job training that involves private employers in locally established initiatives; (3) examine strategies involving private employers in local training linked to available employment opportunities; (4) determine the best administrative structure for such system, and the agency to conduct Federal oversight; (5) examine strategies for a national online labor market information system; and (6) determine standards for Federal measurement of program effectiveness, State provision of effective services, and a common terminology. Requires the Commission to submit: (1) a report on such study and recommendations to specified congressional committees; and (2) to the Congress, a draft of a joint resolution to consolidate or eliminate the covered programs and activities to create the national system, implement the strategies, establish or designate the agency and the structure, establish the labor market information system, and implement the standards. (Sec. 213) Sets forth an expedited procedure for congressional consideration of the Commission's proposed reforms in its draft of the joint resolution.",2025-08-26T13:52:26Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1943 103-s-1950,103,s,1950,Occupational Safety and Health Reform Act,Labor and Employment,1994-03-17,1994-03-22,Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Hearings held.,Senate,"Sen. Kassebaum, Nancy Landon [R-KS]",KS,R,K000017,1,"Occupational Safety and Health Reform Act - Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA) to include coverage of Federal employees of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. (Sec. 3) Requires a regulatory flexibility analysis for each OSHA standard promulgated. Requires a continuing comprehensive economic analysis of the costs and benefits of each OSHA standard, and biennial reports by the Secretary of Labor to the Congress. (Sec. 4) Prohibits citation for violation of a standard for which the employer has a variance pending for at least 90 days. (Sec. 5) Revises inspection provisions. Requires inspections to be conducted by at least one individual trained in and knowledgeable of the industry or the types of hazards. Provides for fire hazard inspection training and referral. Prohibits routine inspections of employers of ten or fewer employees if such employers are: (1) farming operations which do not maintain a temporary labor camp; and or (2) in a category of employers having an occupational injury or a lost day rate which is less than the national average. Grants the Secretary discretion in determining which employer complaints must receive formal inspection responses. (Sec. 6) Directs the Secretary to establish a voluntary compliance program granting partial exemption from OSHA general inspections for employers who either retain certain consultation or certification programs or have an exemplary safety record and a safety and health program meeting specified criteria. Makes certain restrictions under the National Labor Relations Act inapplicable to employer involvement with employee health and safety committees. (Sec. 7) Adds employer defenses of employee misconduct or alternative safer methods. (Sec. 8) Extends the period for employer contests of citations by the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission. Requires deference to be given the Commission's reasonable conclusions with respect to questions of law. (Sec. 9) Revises procedures for discrimination protection for whistle-blowers under OSHA, including extending the time for filing complaints, and providing for reviews, appeals, and mediation. (Sec. 10) Revises enforcement, including special conditions and practices, a mandatory special emphasis program, and investigations of deaths and serious incidents. (Sec. 11) Revises penalties in general, and with respect to special assessments, citations, and victims' rights. (Sec. 12) Requires States to make their applicable labeling, content, and hazard information requirements identical to OSHA standards. Authorizes waivers to State safety and health programs. (Sec. 13) Authorizes employers to establish alcohol and substance abuse testing programs where there is a reasonable probability that any employee's safety or health could be endangered because of use of alcohol or a controlled substance in the workplace. Directs the Secretary to establish standards for such programs. (Sec. 14) Establishes small business assistance and training programs, including: (1) model injury prevention programs completion of which qualifies employers for certain exemptions and reductions in penalties; (2) technical assistance and consultative services for employers and employees, targeted at small businesses and the most hazardous industries; and (3) certain consultative services to employers provided under cooperative agreements between the States and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (Sec. 15) Directs the Secretary to periodically make an award to companies and other organizations which have exemplary safety and health programs.",2025-08-26T13:51:36Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1950 103-s-1951,103,s,1951,Reemployment Act of 1994,Labor and Employment,1994-03-17,1994-05-26,Committee on Finance. Held hearings on provisions of the bill.,Senate,"Sen. Moynihan, Daniel Patrick [D-NY]",NY,D,M001054,15,"TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Comprehensive Program for Worker Reemployment Title II: Retraining Income Support and Flexibility in Unemployment Compensation Title III: One-Stop Career Center System Title IV: National Labor Market Information System Title V: Reinvention Labs for Job Training for the Economically Disadvantaged Reemployment Act of 1994 - Establishes: (1) a comprehensive program for worker reemployment; (2) retraining income support and flexibility in unemployment compensation; (3) a one-stop career center system; (4) a national labor market information system; and (5) reinvention labs for job training for the economically disadvantaged. (Sec. 4) Authorizes appropriations for titles I, III, and IV of this Act. Title I: Comprehensive Program for Worker Reemployment - Allots funds among States and reserves certain funds for national activities. (Sec. 103) Makes certain permanently laid-off workers and long-term unemployed individuals (as well as workers facing imminent plant shutdowns and self-employed individuals unemployed because of community economic conditions or natural disasters) eligible for services under this title. Makes dislocated homemakers eligible if a State Governor deems this appropriate and certain conditions are met. Part A: State and Substate Delivery System - Makes States responsible for administrative and management systems under this title. (Sec. 112) Requires the Governor to designate or establish a dislocated worker unit at the State level, with specified rapid response, information, and coordination functions. Directs such unit to coordinate with substate grantees and career centers, and to promote worker-management transition assistance committees. Provides for rapid response coverage of certain layoffs, State funding of preliminary assessments of worker buyouts of plants, prohibition of State transfer of rapid response functions, and Federal oversight of such functions. (Sec. 113) Requires the Governor to develop and maintain a comprehensive labor market information system in the State that meets certain requirements relating to the national system of effective labor market information. (Sec. 114) Requires the Governor to coordinate programs under this title with the worker profiling system under the Social Security Act and the retraining income support program under this Act. (Sec. 115) Authorizes the Governor to award supplementary grants to eligible entities to provide authorized services to eligible individuals in areas of the State experiencing substantial increases in numbers of such individuals due to plant closures, base closures, and mass layoffs. Allows such grant funds to be used to establish additional service centers, including on-site transition centers. (Sec. 116) Authorizes the Governor to award job retention project grants for: (1) upgrading skills of workers at risk of permanent layoff; and (2) retraining workers in new technologies and work processes to help convert or restructure businesses into high performance work organizations and avert plant closings or substantial layoffs. Requires State and employer contributions. Requires consultation with unions. (Sec. 117) Requires establishment of substate area administrative structures. (Sec. 118) Requires each designated substate grantee to establish one or more career centers in that area. Allows additional, temporary on-site transition centers. (Sec. 119) Authorizes the use of substate area funds for the following services for eligible individuals: (1) basic reemployment services; (2) intensive reemployment services; (3) education and training services; (4) retraining income support; (5) supportive services; and (6) supplemental wage allowances for older workers. (Sec. 120) Allows a career center to issue a certificate of continuing eligibility for services to eligible individuals who are accepting employment at a significantly lower wage than their previous one or in an occupation significantly different from their previous one. Part B: Federal Service Delivery System - Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish a program of national discretionary grants to address large-scale economic dislocations resulting from plant closures, base closures, or mass layoffs. Allows the use of such grants to: (1) provide comprehensive planning services to assist communities in addressing and reducing the impact of an economic dislocation; and (2) establish on-site transition centers. (Sec. 132) Directs the Secretary to make funds available for disaster relief employment assistance to States for substate allocation. (Sec. 133) Directs the Secretary to provide for: (1) evaluation of programs under this title; (2) research on addressing economic dislocation, facilitating the transition of permanently laid-off workers to reemployment, and upgrading skills of employed workers; and (3) demonstration projects to develop and improve methods of addressing economic dislocation and promoting worker adjustment. (Sec. 134) Directs the Secretary to provide staff training and technical assistance to various entities to enhance their capacity to develop and deliver adjustment assistance services to workers, and to avert plant closings or substantial layoffs. Requires integration of such activities with those of the Capacity Building and Information and Dissemination Network. (Sec. 135) Directs the Secretary to provide for delivery of programs, activities, and services under this title in any State that chooses not to participate. Part C: Performance Standards and Quality Assurance Systems - Directs the Secretary to establish a process, including an annual meeting, in each State to promote development of a customer service compact among parties administering programs under this title. (Sec. 152) Directs the Secretary to prescribe performance standards relating separately to the substate grantees and the career centers. Directs Governors to prescribe adjustments to such standards and award incentive grants to grantees and centers exceeding such standards. (Sec. 153) Requires each substate grantee to establish methods for obtaining customer feedback from eligible individuals and employers who have received services from a career center. (Sec. 154) Makes providers of education and training services eligible to receive funds under this title if they are eligible to participate under student aid provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965 or are determined eligible under alternative procedures established by Governors, and if they provide performance-based information. Exempts on-the-job training providers from such requirements. Part D: General Requirements - Sets forth general requirements for programs under this title, including provisions for benefits, labor standards, and grievance procedures. Part E: Fiscal Administrative Provisions - Sets forth various administrative provisions, including ones for program year, prompt allocation of funds, monitoring, fiscal controls and sanctions, reports, recordkeeping, and investigations, administrative adjudication, nondiscrimination, judicial review, nondiscrimination, and criminal provisions. Part F: Miscellaneous Provisions - Provides for transition, on July 1, 1995, to programs authorized under this title from the following programs, which this Act repeals, under employment and training assistance for dislocated workers provisions of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA): (1) Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance program; (2) Defense Conversion Adjustment Program; (3) Defense Diversification Program; and (4) Clean Air Employment Transition Assistance Program. Terminates the Disaster Relief Employment Assistance program under JTPA. Title II: Retraining Income Support and Flexibility in Unemployment Compensation - Part A: Retraining Income Support Program - Establishes a retraining income support program to assist permanently laid-off individuals participating in long-term training programs. (Sec. 202) Sets forth eligibility requirements for tenured workers (who have been employed for more than three years before being permanently laid off) and for trade-impacted workers. Provides, at a later date, for additional eligibility coverage for workers who have been employed for more than one year but less than three years before being permanently laid-off. (Sec. 203) Sets forth formulae for determining weekly amounts of such assistance. (Sec. 204) Limits the maximum duration of such assistance to: (1) 52 weeks for individuals with three years or more of job tenure; and (2) 26 weeks for individuals with less than three years of job tenure. Provides for coordination with the extended unemployment compensation benefit program. (Sec. 205) Provides for agreements with States, administration absent State agreement, liabilities of certifying and disbursing officers, fraud and recovery of overpayments, and penalties. Part B: Retraining Income Support Account - Amends the Social Security Act to establish a Retraining Income Support Account in the Unemployment Trust Fund. Provides for transfers to such Account and transfers to States. (Sec. 222) Provides for funds to assist States in administering cash benefits for retraining income support. Part C: Financing Provisions - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to raise the rate of the Federal unemployment tax. (Sec. 232) Provides for voluntary withholding of Federal individual income tax on unemployment and other benefits, including retraining income support. Requires States to provide for a system for deduction and withholding of Federal individual income tax from unemployment compensation upon the recipient's voluntary request. Part D: Integration of Trade-Impacted Workers into the Comprehensive Reemployment System - Phases out the trade adjustment assistance program. (Sec. 242) Establishes within the Department of Labor a temporary, transitional certification program to integrate trade-impacted workers into the comprehensive system of worker reemployment and retraining income support. Part E: Unemployment Compensation Flexibility - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow States, under their unemployment compensation programs, to conduct: (1) short-time compensation programs; (2) reemployment bonus programs. (Sec. 253) Amends the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act to repeal a sunset provision which would terminate the self-employment assistance program after five years. (Thus this Act extends such program indefinitely.) Title III: One-Stop Career Center System - Part A: Components of Voluntary One-Stop Career Center System - Requires a State's one-stop career center system, in order to receive a grant or waiver under this title, to include: (1) local workforce investment boards; (2) one-stop career centers established in accordance with specified procedures; (3) provision of specified services; (4) participation of specified Federal programs; (5) operating agreements for such centers; (6) quality assurance systems; and (6) a State Human Resource Investment Council. (Sec. 312) Directs the Governor to designate one-stop service areas within the State. Directs local officials to establish a workforce investment board for each such area. (Sec. 313) Directs the Governor and local officials to jointly select a consortium option or a multiple independent operator option as the method for establishing one-stop career centers for each service area. (Sec. 314) Requires each center to make available: (1) certain basic services to the public free of charge; and (2) certain intensive services to participants in the title I comprehensive program for worker reemployment who are unable to obtain employment through the basic services (and, optionally, to other individuals in accordance with the written agreement). Authorizes each center to provide specialized services to employers and additional services specified in the agreement. Authorizes charging fees under specified conditions, with all program income to be used to expand or enhance services. (Sec. 315) Requires the following programs to be made available to participants through the centers (and to participate in operation of such centers as parties to the agreement): (1) comprehensive programs for worker reemployment under title I of this Act; (2) Wagner-Peyser Act programs (employment services); (3) job counseling, training, and placement for veterans; (4) training services for the disadvantaged under title II of JTPA; (5) community service employment for older Americans programs under title V of the Older Americans Act; and (6) programs authorized under Federal and State unemployment compensation laws. Allows other human resource programs to provide services through and participate in operation of the centers, under specified conditions, including the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills program for AFDC recipients, the Food Stamp Employment and Training program, the Job Corps, veterans' employment programs under JTPA, and programs under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act, Adult Education Act, Vocational Rehabilitation Act, and School-to-Work Opportunities Act. (Sec. 316) Sets forth requirements for operating agreements and quality assurance systems. (Sec. 318) Requires each State to establish a State human resource investment council that meets specified JTPA requirements and carries out certain additional functions including advising on development and implementation of the one-stop career center system. Part B: Grants and Waivers to Promote the Development and Implementation of One-Stop Career Center System - Authorizes the Secretary to establish programs of competitive grants to States for planning and development and for implementation of comprehensive statewide networks of one-stop career centers. (Sec. 333) Allows a State, at any point during such development or implementation, to request from the Secretary a waiver of one or more statutory or regulatory provisions. Sets forth waiver criteria. Subjects to such waiver authority the mandatory participating programs of the centers. (Sec. 334) Provides for pooling of administrative resources. Part C: Additional Activities in Support of One-Stop Career Center Systems - Directs the Secretary to establish a process, with each State implementing the one-stop career center system, including an annual meeting, to promote development of a customer service compact among the parties administering the system. (Sec. 335) Makes each State implementing such a system responsible for administration, management, monitoring, and technical assistance. (Sec. 336) Makes the Secretary responsible for monitoring compliance, staff training and technical assistance (integrated with the Capacity Building and Information Dissemination Network under JTPA), a national logo and name, and evaluation of one-stop career center programs. Part D: Effective Date - Sets forth effective dates for this title and for performance standards. Title IV: National Labor Market Information System - Directs the Secretary to develop, in coordination with other Federal, State, and local entities, a strategy to establish a nationwide system of local labor market information. (Sec. 403) Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with such other entities and public-private partnerships, to develop such system to make available specified types of information. Requires certain technical standards, consumer reports, and evaluation. (Sec. 404) Directs the Secretary to provide for coordination and integration of such system and appropriate dissemination of information. Title V: Reinvention Labs for Job Training for the Economically Disadvantaged - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) to establish a five-year Reinvention Labs program to: (1) encourage innovative program designs to improve provision of services to and labor market outcomes for economically disadvantaged youth and adults; (2) develop, through service delivery areas (SDAs) and States, knowledge of effective approaches to providing employment and training to the economically disadvantaged; and (3) provide SDAs with increased flexibility in operating job training programs, in exchange for greater accountability. (Sec. 501) Sets forth requirements for SDA applications for waivers of Federal requirements relating to JTPA programs for employment and training of the economically disadvantaged. Authorizes the Secretary to waive certain of such requirements under specified conditions and to provide technical assistance to SDAs, States, and service providers for Reinvention Labs programs. (Sec. 502) Modifies the definition of tuition under JTPA.",2025-08-26T13:50:27Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1951 103-hr-4040,103,hr,4040,Reemployment Act of 1994,Labor and Employment,1994-03-16,1994-07-22,Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.,House,"Rep. Rostenkowski, Dan [D-IL-5]",IL,D,R000458,94,"TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Comprehensive Program for Worker Reemployment Title II: Retraining Income Support and Flexibility in Unemployment Compensation Title III: One-Stop Career Center System Title IV: National Labor Market Information System Title V: Reinvention Labs for Job Training for the Economically Disadvantaged Reemployment Act of 1994 - Establishes: (1) a comprehensive program for worker reemployment; (2) retraining income support and flexibility in unemployment compensation; (3) a one-stop career center system; (4) a national labor market information system; and (5) reinvention labs for job training for the economically disadvantaged. (Sec. 4) Authorizes appropriations for titles I, III, and IV of this Act. Title I: Comprehensive Program for Worker Reemployment - Allots funds among States and reserves certain funds for national activities. (Sec. 103) Makes certain permanently laid-off workers and long-term unemployed individuals (as well as workers facing imminent plant shutdowns and self-employed individuals unemployed because of community economic conditions or natural disasters) eligible for services under this title. Makes dislocated homemakers eligible if a State Governor deems this appropriate and certain conditions are met. Part A: State and Substate Delivery System - Makes States responsible for administrative and management systems under this title. (Sec. 112) Requires the Governor to designate or establish a dislocated worker unit at the State level, with specified rapid response, information, and coordination functions. Directs such unit to coordinate with substate grantees and career centers, and to promote worker-management transition assistance committees. Provides for rapid response coverage of certain layoffs, State funding of preliminary assessments of worker buyouts of plants, prohibition of State transfer of rapid response functions, and Federal oversight of such functions. (Sec. 113) Requires the Governor to develop and maintain a comprehensive labor market information system in the State that meets certain requirements relating to the national system of effective labor market information. (Sec. 114) Requires the Governor to coordinate programs under this title with the worker profiling system under the Social Security Act and the retraining income support program under this Act. (Sec. 115) Authorizes the Governor to award supplementary grants to eligible entities to provide authorized services to eligible individuals in areas of the State experiencing substantial increases in numbers of such individuals due to plant closures, base closures, and mass layoffs. Allows such grant funds to be used to establish additional service centers, including on-site transition centers. (Sec. 116) Authorizes the Governor to award job retention project grants for: (1) upgrading skills of workers at risk of permanent layoff; and (2) retraining workers in new technologies and work processes to help convert or restructure businesses into high performance work organizations and avert plant closings or substantial layoffs. Requires State and employer contributions. Requires consultation with unions. (Sec. 117) Requires establishment of substate area administrative structures. (Sec. 118) Requires each designated substate grantee to establish one or more career centers in that area. Allows additional, temporary on-site transition centers. (Sec. 119) Authorizes the use of substate area funds for the following services for eligible individuals: (1) basic reemployment services; (2) intensive reemployment services; (3) education and training services; (4) retraining income support; (5) supportive services; and (6) supplemental wage allowances for older workers. (Sec. 120) Allows a career center to issue a certificate of continuing eligibility for services to eligible individuals who are accepting employment at a significantly lower wage than their previous one or in an occupation significantly different from their previous one. Part B: Federal Service Delivery System - Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish a program of national discretionary grants to address large-scale economic dislocations resulting from plant closures, base closures, or mass layoffs. Allows the use of such grants to: (1) provide comprehensive planning services to assist communities in addressing and reducing the impact of an economic dislocation; and (2) establish on-site transition centers. (Sec. 132) Directs the Secretary to make funds available for disaster relief employment assistance to States for substate allocation. (Sec. 133) Directs the Secretary to provide for: (1) evaluation of programs under this title; (2) research on addressing economic dislocation, facilitating the transition of permanently laid-off workers to reemployment, and upgrading skills of employed workers; and (3) demonstration projects to develop and improve methods of addressing economic dislocation and promoting worker adjustment. (Sec. 134) Directs the Secretary to provide staff training and technical assistance to various entities to enhance their capacity to develop and deliver adjustment assistance services to workers, and to avert plant closings or substantial layoffs. Requires integration of such activities with those of the Capacity Building and Information and Dissemination Network. (Sec. 135) Directs the Secretary to provide for delivery of programs, activities, and services under this title in any State that chooses not to participate. Part C: Performance Standards and Quality Assurance Systems - Directs the Secretary to establish a process, including an annual meeting, in each State to promote development of a customer service compact among parties administering programs under this title. (Sec. 152) Directs the Secretary to prescribe performance standards relating separately to the substate grantees and the career centers. Directs Governors to prescribe adjustments to such standards and award incentive grants to grantees and centers exceeding such standards. (Sec. 153) Requires each substate grantee to establish methods for obtaining customer feedback from eligible individuals and employers who have received services from a career center. (Sec. 154) Makes providers of education and training services eligible to receive funds under this title if they are eligible to participate under student aid provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965 or are determined eligible under alternative procedures established by Governors, and if they provide performance-based information. Exempts on-the-job training providers from such requirements. Part D: General Requirements - Sets forth general requirements for programs under this title, including provisions for benefits, labor standards, and grievance procedures. Part E: Fiscal Administrative Provisions - Sets forth various administrative provisions, including ones for program year, prompt allocation of funds, monitoring, fiscal controls and sanctions, reports, recordkeeping, and investigations, administrative adjudication, nondiscrimination, judicial review, nondiscrimination, and criminal provisions. Part F: Miscellaneous Provisions - Provides for transition, on July 1, 1995, to programs authorized under this title from the following programs, which this Act repeals, under employment and training assistance for dislocated workers provisions of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA): (1) Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance program; (2) Defense Conversion Adjustment Program; (3) Defense Diversification Program; and (4) Clean Air Employment Transition Assistance Program. Terminates the Disaster Relief Employment Assistance program under JTPA. Title II: Retraining Income Support and Flexibility in Unemployment Compensation - Part A: Retraining Income Support Program - Establishes a retraining income support program to assist permanently laid-off individuals participating in long-term training programs. (Sec. 202) Sets forth eligibility requirements for tenured workers (who have been employed for more than three years before being permanently laid off) and for trade-impacted workers. Provides, at a later date, for additional eligibility coverage for workers who have been employed for more than one year but less than three years before being permanently laid-off. (Sec. 203) Sets forth formulae for determining weekly amounts of such assistance. (Sec. 204) Limits the maximum duration of such assistance to: (1) 52 weeks for individuals with three years or more of job tenure; and (2) 26 weeks for individuals with less than three years of job tenure. Provides for coordination with the extended unemployment compensation benefit program. (Sec. 205) Provides for agreements with States, administration absent State agreement, liabilities of certifying and disbursing officers, fraud and recovery of overpayments, and penalties. Part B: Retraining Income Support Account - Amends the Social Security Act to establish a Retraining Income Support Account in the Unemployment Trust Fund. Provides for transfers to such Account and transfers to States. (Sec. 222) Provides for funds to assist States in administering cash benefits for retraining income support. Part C: Financing Provisions - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to raise the rate of the Federal unemployment tax. (Sec. 232) Provides for voluntary withholding of Federal individual income tax on unemployment and other benefits, including retraining income support. Requires States to provide for a system for deduction and withholding of Federal individual income tax from unemployment compensation upon the recipient's voluntary request. Part D: Integration of Trade-Impacted Workers into the Comprehensive Reemployment System - Phases out the trade adjustment assistance program. (Sec. 242) Establishes within the Department of Labor a temporary, transitional certification program to integrate trade-impacted workers into the comprehensive system of worker reemployment and retraining income support. Part E: Unemployment Compensation Flexibility - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow States, under their unemployment compensation programs, to conduct: (1) short-time compensation programs; (2) reemployment bonus programs. (Sec. 253) Amends the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act to repeal a sunset provision which would terminate the self-employment assistance program after five years. (Thus this Act extends such program indefinitely.) Title III: One-Stop Career Center System - Part A: Components of Voluntary One-Stop Career Center System - Requires a State's one-stop career center system, in order to receive a grant or waiver under this title, to include: (1) local workforce investment boards; (2) one-stop career centers established in accordance with specified procedures; (3) provision of specified services; (4) participation of specified Federal programs; (5) operating agreements for such centers; (6) quality assurance systems; and (6) a State Human Resource Investment Council. (Sec. 312) Directs the Governor to designate one-stop service areas within the State. Directs local officials to establish a workforce investment board for each such area. (Sec. 313) Directs the Governor and local officials to jointly select a consortium option or a multiple independent operator option as the method for establishing one-stop career centers for each service area. (Sec. 314) Requires each center to make available: (1) certain basic services to the public free of charge; and (2) certain intensive services to participants in the title I comprehensive program for worker reemployment who are unable to obtain employment through the basic services (and, optionally, to other individuals in accordance with the written agreement). Authorizes each center to provide specialized services to employers and additional services specified in the agreement. Authorizes charging fees under specified conditions, with all program income to be used to expand or enhance services. (Sec. 315) Requires the following programs to be made available to participants through the centers (and to participate in operation of such centers as parties to the agreement): (1) comprehensive programs for worker reemployment under title I of this Act; (2) Wagner-Peyser Act programs (employment services); (3) job counseling, training, and placement for veterans; (4) training services for the disadvantaged under title II of JTPA; (5) community service employment for older Americans programs under title V of the Older Americans Act; and (6) programs authorized under Federal and State unemployment compensation laws. Allows other human resource programs to provide services through and participate in operation of the centers, under specified conditions, including the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills program for AFDC recipients, the Food Stamp Employment and Training program, the Job Corps, veterans' employment programs under JTPA, and programs under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act, Adult Education Act, Vocational Rehabilitation Act, and School-to-Work Opportunities Act. (Sec. 316) Sets forth requirements for operating agreements and quality assurance systems. (Sec. 318) Requires each State to establish a State human resource investment council that meets specified JTPA requirements and carries out certain additional functions including advising on development and implementation of the one-stop career center system. Part B: Grants and Waivers to Promote the Development and Implementation of One-Stop Career Center System - Authorizes the Secretary to establish programs of competitive grants to States for planning and development and for implementation of comprehensive statewide networks of one-stop career centers. (Sec. 333) Allows a State, at any point during such development or implementation, to request from the Secretary a waiver of one or more statutory or regulatory provisions. Sets forth waiver criteria. Subjects to such waiver authority the mandatory participating programs of the centers. (Sec. 334) Provides for pooling of administrative resources. Part C: Additional Activities in Support of One-Stop Career Center Systems - Directs the Secretary to establish a process, with each State implementing the one-stop career center system, including an annual meeting, to promote development of a customer service compact among the parties administering the system. (Sec. 335) Makes each State implementing such a system responsible for administration, management, monitoring, and technical assistance. (Sec. 336) Makes the Secretary responsible for monitoring compliance, staff training and technical assistance (integrated with the Capacity Building and Information Dissemination Network under JTPA), a national logo and name, and evaluation of one-stop career center programs. Part D: Effective Date - Sets forth effective dates for this title and for performance standards. Title IV: National Labor Market Information System - Directs the Secretary to develop, in coordination with other Federal, State, and local entities, a strategy to establish a nationwide system of local labor market information. (Sec. 403) Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with such other entities and public-private partnerships, to develop such system to make available specified types of information. Requires certain technical standards, consumer reports, and evaluation. (Sec. 404) Directs the Secretary to provide for coordination and integration of such system and appropriate dissemination of information. Title V: Reinvention Labs for Job Training for the Economically Disadvantaged - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) to establish a five-year Reinvention Labs program to: (1) encourage innovative program designs to improve provision of services to and labor market outcomes for economically disadvantaged youth and adults; (2) develop, through service delivery areas (SDAs) and States, knowledge of effective approaches to providing employment and training to the economically disadvantaged; and (3) provide SDAs with increased flexibility in operating job training programs, in exchange for greater accountability. (Sec. 501) Sets forth requirements for SDA applications for waivers of Federal requirements relating to JTPA programs for employment and training of the economically disadvantaged. Authorizes the Secretary to waive certain of such requirements under specified conditions and to provide technical assistance to SDAs, States, and service providers for Reinvention Labs programs. (Sec. 502) Modifies the definition of tuition under JTPA.",2026-03-23T12:47:58Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/4040 103-hr-4050,103,hr,4050,Reemployment Act of 1994,Labor and Employment,1994-03-16,1994-10-04,Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2050),House,"Rep. Ford, William D. [D-MI-13]",MI,D,F000270,113,"TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Comprehensive Program for Worker Reemployment Title II: One-Stop Career Center System Title III: National Labor Market Information System Title IV: Reinvention Labs for Job Training for the Economically Disadvantaged Reemployment Act of 1994 - Establishes: (1) a comprehensive program for worker reemployment; (2) a one-stop career center system; (3) a national labor market information system; and (4) reinvention labs for job training for the economically disadvantaged. (Sec. 4) Authorizes appropriations for titles I, III, and IV of this Act. Title I: Comprehensive Program for Worker Reemployment - Allots funds among States and reserves certain funds for national activities. (Sec. 103) Makes certain permanently laid-off workers and long-term unemployed individuals (as well as workers facing imminent plant shutdowns and self-employed individuals unemployed because of community economic conditions or natural disasters) eligible for services under this title. Makes dislocated homemakers eligible if a State Governor deems this appropriate and certain conditions are met. Part A: State and Substate Delivery System - Makes States responsible for administrative and management systems under this title. (Sec. 112) Requires the Governor to designate or establish a dislocated worker unit at the State level, with specified rapid response, information, and coordination functions. Directs such unit to coordinate with substate grantees and career centers, and to promote worker-management transition assistance committees. Provides for rapid response coverage of certain layoffs, State funding of preliminary assessments of worker buyouts of plants, prohibition of State transfer of rapid response functions, and Federal oversight of such functions. (Sec. 113) Requires the Governor to develop and maintain a comprehensive labor market information system in the State that meets certain requirements relating to the national system of effective labor market information. (Sec. 114) Requires the Governor to coordinate programs under this title with the worker profiling system under the Social Security Act and the retraining income support program under this Act. (Sec. 115) Authorizes the Governor to award supplementary grants to eligible entities to provide authorized services to eligible individuals in areas of the State experiencing substantial increases in numbers of such individuals due to plant closures, base closures, and mass layoffs. Allows such grant funds to be used to establish additional service centers, including on-site transition centers. (Sec. 116) Authorizes the Governor to award job retention project grants for: (1) upgrading skills of workers at risk of permanent layoff; and (2) retraining workers in new technologies and work processes to help convert or restructure businesses into high performance work organizations and avert plant closings or substantial layoffs. Requires State and employer contributions. Requires consultation with unions. (Sec. 117) Requires establishment of substate area administrative structures. (Sec. 118) Requires each designated substate grantee to establish one or more career centers in that area. Allows additional, temporary on-site transition centers. (Sec. 119) Authorizes the use of substate area funds for the following services for eligible individuals: (1) basic reemployment services; (2) intensive reemployment services; (3) education and training services; (4) retraining income support; (5) supportive services; and (6) supplemental wage allowances for older workers. (Sec. 120) Allows a career center to issue a certificate of continuing eligibility for services to eligible individuals who are accepting employment at a significantly lower wage than their previous one or in an occupation significantly different from their previous one. Part B: Federal Service Delivery System - Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish a program of national discretionary grants to address large-scale economic dislocations resulting from plant closures, base closures, or mass layoffs. Allows the use of such grants to: (1) provide comprehensive planning services to assist communities in addressing and reducing the impact of an economic dislocation; and (2) establish on-site transition centers. (Sec. 132) Directs the Secretary to make funds available for disaster relief employment assistance to States for substate allocation. (Sec. 133) Directs the Secretary to provide for: (1) evaluation of programs under this title; (2) research on addressing economic dislocation, facilitating the transition of permanently laid-off workers to reemployment, and upgrading skills of employed workers; and (3) demonstration projects to develop and improve methods of addressing economic dislocation and promoting worker adjustment. (Sec. 134) Directs the Secretary to provide staff training and technical assistance to various entities to enhance their capacity to develop and deliver adjustment assistance services to workers, and to avert plant closings or substantial layoffs. Requires integration of such activities with those of the Capacity Building and Information and Dissemination Network. (Sec. 135) Directs the Secretary to provide for delivery of programs, activities, and services under this title in any State that chooses not to participate. Part C: Performance Standards and Quality Assurance Systems - Directs the Secretary to establish a process, including an annual meeting, in each State to promote development of a customer service compact among parties administering programs under this title. (Sec. 152) Directs the Secretary to prescribe performance standards relating separately to the substate grantees and the career centers. Directs Governors to prescribe adjustments to such standards and award incentive grants to grantees and centers exceeding such standards. (Sec. 153) Requires each substate grantee to establish methods for obtaining customer feedback from eligible individuals and employers who have received services from a career center. (Sec. 154) Makes providers of education and training services eligible to receive funds under this title if they are eligible to participate under student aid provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965 or are determined eligible under alternative procedures established by Governors, and if they provide performance-based information. Exempts on-the-job training providers from such requirements. Part D: General Requirements - Sets forth general requirements for programs under this title, including provisions for benefits, labor standards, and grievance procedures. Part E: Fiscal Administrative Provisions - Sets forth various administrative provisions, including ones for program year, prompt allocation of funds, monitoring, fiscal controls and sanctions, reports, recordkeeping, and investigations, administrative adjudication, nondiscrimination, judicial review, nondiscrimination, and criminal provisions. Part F: Miscellaneous Provisions - Provides for transition, on July 1, 1995, to programs authorized under this title from the following programs, which this Act repeals, under employment and training assistance for dislocated workers provisions of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA): (1) Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance program; (2) Defense Conversion Adjustment Program; (3) Defense Diversification Program; and (4) Clean Air Employment Transition Assistance Program. Terminates the Disaster Relief Employment Assistance program under JTPA. Title II: One-Stop Career Center System - Part A: Components of Voluntary One-Stop Career Center System - Requires a State's one-stop career center system, in order to receive a grant or waiver under this title, to include: (1) local workforce investment boards; (2) one-stop career centers established in accordance with specified procedures; (3) provision of specified services; (4) participation of specified Federal programs; (5) operating agreements for such centers; (6) quality assurance systems; and (6) a State Human Resource Investment Council. (Sec. 212) Directs the Governor to designate one-stop service areas within the State. Directs local officials to establish a workforce investment board for each such area. (Sec. 213) Directs the Governor and local officials to jointly select a consortium option or a multiple independent operator option as the method for establishing one-stop career centers for each service area. (Sec. 214) Requires each center to make available: (1) certain basic services to the public free of charge; and (2) certain intensive services to participants in the title I comprehensive program for worker reemployment who are unable to obtain employment through the basic services (and, optionally, to other individuals in accordance with the written agreement). Authorizes each center to provide specialized services to employers and additional services specified in the agreement. Authorizes charging fees under specified conditions, with all program income to be used to expand or enhance services. (Sec. 215) Requires the following programs to be made available to participants through the centers (and to participate in operation of such centers as parties to the agreement): (1) comprehensive programs for worker reemployment under title I of this Act; (2) Wagner-Peyser Act programs (employment services); (3) job counseling, training, and placement for veterans; (4) training services for the disadvantaged under title II of JTPA; (5) community service employment for older Americans programs under title V of the Older Americans Act; and (6) programs authorized under Federal and State unemployment compensation laws. Allows other human resource programs to provide services through and participate in operation of the centers, under specified conditions, including the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills program for AFDC recipients, the Food Stamp Employment and Training program, the Job Corps, veterans' employment programs under JTPA, and programs under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act, Adult Education Act, Vocational Rehabilitation Act, and School-to-Work Opportunities Act. (Sec. 216) Sets forth requirements for operating agreements and quality assurance systems. (Sec. 218) Requires each State to establish a State human resource investment council that meets specified JTPA requirements and carries out certain additional functions including advising on development and implementation of the one-stop career center system. Part B: Grants and Waivers to Promote the Development and Implementation of One-Stop Career Center System - Authorizes the Secretary to establish programs of competitive grants to States for planning and development and for implementation of comprehensive statewide networks of one-stop career centers. (Sec. 233) Allows a State, at any point during such development or implementation, to request from the Secretary a waiver of one or more statutory or regulatory provisions. Sets forth waiver criteria. Subjects to such waiver authority the mandatory participating programs of the centers. (Sec. 234) Provides for pooling of administrative resources. Part C: Additional Activities in Support of One-Stop Career Center Systems - Directs the Secretary to establish a process, with each State implementing the one-stop career center system, including an annual meeting, to promote development of a customer service compact among the parties administering the system. (Sec. 235) Makes each State implementing such a system responsible for administration, management, monitoring, and technical assistance. (Sec. 236) Makes the Secretary responsible for monitoring compliance, staff training and technical assistance (integrated with the Capacity Building and Information Dissemination Network under JTPA), a national logo and name, and evaluation of one-stop career center programs. Part D: Effective Date - Sets forth effective dates for this title and for performance standards. Title III: National Labor Market Information System - Directs the Secretary to develop, in coordination with other Federal, State, and local entities, a strategy to establish a nationwide system of local labor market information. (Sec. 303) Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with such other entities and public-private partnerships, to develop such system to make available specified types of information. Requires certain technical standards, consumer reports, and evaluation. (Sec. 304) Directs the Secretary to provide for coordination and integration of such system and appropriate dissemination of information. Title IV: Reinvention Labs for Job Training for the Economically Disadvantaged - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) to establish a five-year Reinvention Labs program to: (1) encourage innovative program designs to improve provision of services to and labor market outcomes for economically disadvantaged youth and adults; (2) develop, through service delivery areas (SDAs) and States, knowledge of effective approaches to providing employment and training to the economically disadvantaged; and (3) provide SDAs with increased flexibility in operating job training programs, in exchange for greater accountability. (Sec. 401) Sets forth requirements for SDA applications for waivers of Federal requirements relating to JTPA programs for employment and training of the economically disadvantaged. Authorizes the Secretary to waive certain of such requirements under specified conditions and to provide technical assistance to SDAs, States, and service providers for Reinvention Labs programs. (Sec. 402) Modifies the definition of tuition under JTPA.",2026-03-23T12:47:58Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/4050 103-hr-3966,103,hr,3966,Blind Workers' Wage Equity Act,Labor and Employment,1994-03-07,1994-03-23,"Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor Standards, Occupational Health and Safety.",House,"Rep. Traficant, James A., Jr. [D-OH-17]",OH,D,T000350,5,Blind Workers' Wage Equity Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide that individuals with impaired vision or blindness are not to be covered by special certificates for employment of handicapped workers at a lower than minimum wage.,2026-03-23T12:47:58Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/3966 103-hr-3949,103,hr,3949,"Entitled, ""The Firefighter and Rescue Squad Worker Act"".",Labor and Employment,1994-03-03,1994-03-23,"Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor Standards, Occupational Health and Safety.",House,"Rep. Bateman, Herbert H. [R-VA-1]",VA,R,B000229,38,Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exclude from coverage any fire fighters or rescue squad members during the period in which they volunteer their services at a location where they are not employed. Waives overtime compensation requirements when fire fighters or rescue squad members volunteer their services to their employer and sign a legally binding waiver. Prohibits employer coercion of such volunteering.,2026-03-23T12:47:58Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/3949 103-hres-372,103,hres,372,Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives concerning providing as part of health care reform financial incentives to promote worksite health promotion programs.,Labor and Employment,1994-03-01,1994-03-23,Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations.,House,"Rep. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH-13]",OH,D,B000944,17,Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that there should be financial incentives for employers to offer worksite health promotion programs.,2026-03-23T12:41:21Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-resolution/372 103-s-1870,103,s,1870,A bill to provide State programs to encourage employee ownership and participation in business decisionmaking throughout the United States.,Labor and Employment,1994-02-24,1994-03-21,Referred to Subcommittee on Labor.,Senate,"Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]",NM,D,B000468,0,"Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish a program to facilitate the establishment of State programs to foster increased employee ownership and greater employee participation in business decisionmaking. Requires the Secretary to establish the Office of Employee Ownership and Participation to support existing State programs and facilitate new State programs, including: (1) making of matching Federal grants; (2) acting as a clearinghouse for information; and (3) facilitating information exchange and promoting State programs. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Director of the Office of Employee Ownership and Participation to report to the Congress.",2025-04-21T12:24:17Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1870 103-hr-3882,103,hr,3882,Health Care Reform Job Preservation Act,Labor and Employment,1994-02-23,1994-05-05,Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3063),House,"Rep. Gallo, Dean A. [R-NJ-11]",NJ,R,G000025,31,Health Care Reform Job Preservation Act - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the Director of the Congressional Budget Office each to study and report to the Congress and the President on the effect of any comprehensive health care reform legislation passed by the 103d Congress on: (1) job loss and gain; (2) shifts to jobs requiring lesser levels of education or skill; (3) shifts from full-time to part-time employment; and (4) decrease in wages or salaries. Provides that any such comprehensive health care reform legislation shall not take effect until such job impact reports are completed and the President submits to the Congress written notification that the President has reviewed the reports and knows of any job losses and shifts in types of available jobs the reports may predict.,2026-03-23T12:41:21Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/3882 103-s-1855,103,s,1855,"A bill to extend the coverage of certain Federal labor laws to foreign documented vessels, and for other purposes.",Labor and Employment,1994-02-11,1994-02-11,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.,Senate,"Sen. Wofford, Harris [D-PA]",PA,D,W000665,1,"Extends coverage under the National Labor Relations Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to certain foreign vessels which: (1) regularly engage in transporting passengers from and to a place in the United States, with or without intervening stops at foreign ports, including a vessel regularly engaged in transporting passengers only from or to a place in the United States if such transport is so arranged for the purposes of avoiding certain consequences that would otherwise result; (2) (if nonliners) regularly engage in transporting cargo in the foreign trade of the United States; and (3) produce or process goods or services for sale or distribution in the United States, and a vessel that engages in transporting cargo between vessels in international waters and a vessel, port, or place in the United States regardless of the vessel's ownership or control. Excludes any such vessel that can demonstrate that citizens of the country of registry: (1) compose at least one-half of the crew; and (2) hold legal title and beneficial ownership and control.",2025-01-14T19:00:46Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1855 103-s-1851,103,s,1851,"A bill to exclude shipboard supervisory personnel from selection as employer representatives, and for other purposes.",Labor and Employment,1994-02-10,1994-03-21,Referred to Subcommittee on Labor.,Senate,"Sen. Wofford, Harris [D-PA]",PA,D,W000665,2,"Amends the National Labor Relations Act to exclude shipboard supervisory personnel from selection as employer representatives, if such personnel are licensed by the U.S. Coast Guard and represented by a labor organization. Provides that picketing or other economic activity undertaken by a labor organization on behalf of such licensed shipboard supervisory personnel shall not be considered a prohibited restraint or coercion.",2025-04-21T12:24:17Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1851 103-hr-3826,103,hr,3826,Expanded Training Opportunities Act,Labor and Employment,1994-02-09,1994-03-09,Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations.,House,"Rep. Gejdenson, Sam [D-CT-2]",CT,D,G000120,0,"Expanded Training Opportunities Act - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to revise provisions for employment and training assistance for dislocated workers. Provides for employment and training assistance for certain individuals employed at or living in the community of a plant, facility, or enterprise scheduled to close or undergo significant layoffs. Includes skills enhancement to improve employment prospects among authorized retraining services for dislocated workers. Includes in-house training and retraining programs for workers in companies undergoing restructuring among authorized demonstration programs.",2026-03-23T12:41:21Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/3826 103-hr-3774,103,hr,3774,Davis-Bacon Abolition Act,Labor and Employment,1994-02-02,1994-02-11,"Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor Standards, Occupational Health and Safety.",House,"Rep. Inglis, Bob [R-SC-4]",SC,R,I000023,4,"Davis-Bacon Abolition Act - Repeals the Davis-Bacon Act (an Act which requires that the locally prevailing wage rate be paid to various classes of laborers and mechanics working under federally-financed or federally-assisted contracts for construction, alteration, and repair of public buildings or public works).",2026-03-23T12:47:58Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/3774 103-hjres-312,103,hjres,312,"To provide for the designation of September 1, 1994, as ""Working Mothers' Day"".",Labor and Employment,1994-02-01,1994-02-01,Referred to the House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.,House,"Rep. Collins, Cardiss [D-IL-7]",IL,D,C000634,0,"Authorizes the President to designate September 1, 1994, as Working Mothers' Day.",2024-02-06T20:04:02Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-joint-resolution/312 103-hr-3736,103,hr,3736,Workforce Education Act of 1994,Labor and Employment,1994-01-26,1994-02-11,Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education and Civil Rights.,House,"Rep. Andrews, Michael [D-TX-25]",TX,D,A000209,0,"TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Targeted Jobs Credit for School-to-Work Programs Title II: Authorization of Appropriations for the National and Community Service Act of 1990 Title III: Study and Report Relating to Consolidation of Federal Dislocated Worker Programs Title IV: Financing Provisions Workforce Education Act of 1994 - Title I: Targeted Jobs Credit for School-to-Work Programs - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a targeted jobs credit to employers for employing qualified participants in approved school-to-work programs. Title II: Authorization of Appropriations for the National and Community Service Act of 1990 - Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to extend the authorization of appropriations for the national service trust program, national service educational awards, quality and innovation activities, Civilian Community Corps demonstration program, and administration of such Act. Title III: Study and Report Relating to Consolidation of Federal Dislocated Worker Programs - Directs the Secretary of Labor to study and report to the Congress on the feasibility of consolidating the administration of specified Federal dislocated worker programs into a single comprehensive program with certain goals. Title IV: Financing Provisions - Requires certain Federal agencies to prefund government health benefits contributions for their annuitants. Rescinds 15 percent of official travel funds for executive departments or agencies (with specified exceptions) and for any entity in the legislative branch.",2026-03-23T12:41:21Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/3736 103-hr-3738,103,hr,3738,Pay Equity Employment Reform Act of 1994,Labor and Employment,1994-01-26,1994-02-11,Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education and Civil Rights.,House,"Rep. Andrews, Michael [D-TX-25]",TX,D,A000209,17,"TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Provisions Relating to Pay and Personnel Practices in the Executive Branch Title II: Provisions Relating to Pay and Personnel Practices in the Legislative Branch Title III: Discriminatory Wage-Setting Practices and Discriminatory Wage Disparities Subtitle A: Technical Assistance Subtitle B: Wage Discrimination Based on Sex, Race, or National Origin Subtitle C: Compliance With Executive Order 11246 Subtitle D: Amendments to Achieve Budget Neutrality Pay Equity Employment Reform Act of 1994 - Title I: Provisions Relating to Pay and Personnel Practices in the Executive Branch - Requires the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the Secretary of Labor (Secretary) to provide for: (1) a study and report to the President and the Congress by an outside consultant evaluating certain Government personnel practices for discriminatory pay practices and providing recommendations for corrective action; and (2) implementation of such recommendations. Gives OPM continuing oversight over the implementation process. Title II: Provisions Relating to Pay and Personnel Practices in the Legislative Branch - Requires the General Accounting Office to: (1) perform similar studies and make similar reports with respect to legislative branch positions subject to statutory civil rights and labor standards protections; and (2) develop a plan for applying certain non-discriminatory pay and other principles to other legislative branch positions. Title III: Discriminatory Wage-Setting Practices and Discriminatory Wage Disparities - Requires the Secretary to develop and carry out a continuing program for eliminating discriminatory wage-setting practices and wage disparities through, among other means, providing appropriate technical assistance to any public or private entity upon request. Authorizes appropriations to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for FY 1995 through 1999 for: (1) enforcement of wage discrimination laws; and (2) activities to increase public awareness of wage discrimination. Directs the Secretary to develop and implement review procedures for determining compliance with Executive Order 11246 in every contract compliance program audited contract. Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to establish standard payment rates for home health services.",2025-08-26T13:50:15Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/3738 103-s-1793,103,s,1793,HERO Act,Labor and Employment,1994-01-25,1994-03-21,Referred to Subcommittee on Labor.,Senate,"Sen. Kempthorne, Dirk [R-ID]",ID,R,K000088,1,"Heroic Efforts to Rescue Others Act (HERO Act) - Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA) to exempt from citation by the Secretary of Labor employers of certain individuals who perform rescues of individuals in imminent danger as a result of a life-threatening incident, unless certain circumstances apply.",2025-08-26T13:51:20Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1793 103-s-1780,103,s,1780,Retirement Protection Act of 1993,Labor and Employment,1993-11-23,1994-06-15,Committee on Finance. Hearings held.,Senate,"Sen. Moynihan, Daniel Patrick [D-NY]",NY,D,M001054,0,"TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Pension Plan Funding Subtitle A: Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 Subtitle B: Amendments to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 Title II: Amendments Related to Title IV of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 Title III: Participant Services Title IV: Miscellaneous Amendments Title V: Effective Dates Retirement Protection Act of 1993 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to revise provisions for pension plan funding, compliance, premiums, and participant protection and services. Title I: Pension Plan Funding - Subtitle A: Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 - Amends IRC requirements for pension plan funding, including: (1) minimum funding, revising additional funding requirements for single-employer plans; (2) limitation on changes in current liability assumptions; (3) recognition of already bargained changes in liability; (4) modification of the quarterly contribution requirement; and (5) exceptions to the excise tax on nondeductible contributions. Subtitle B: Amendments to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 - Amends ERISA requirements for pension plan funding, including: (1) minimum funding, revising additional funding requirements for single-employer plans; (2) limitation on changes in current liability assumptions; (3) recognition of already bargained changes in liability; and (4) modification of the quarterly contribution requirement. Title II: Amends Relating to Title IV of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 - Amends title IV (Plan Termination Insurance) of ERISA to revise requirements relating to reportable events. Authorizes the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) to apply for judicial review other than involuntary termination. Requires that specified additional information be furnished to the PBGC. Adds provisions relating to liability upon liquidation of a contributing sponsor or controlled group member where a single-employer plan remains ongoing. Revises provisions for: (1) enforcement of minimum funding requirements; and (2) remedies for noncompliance with requirements for standard termination. Prohibits benefit increases or other changes which increase plan liabilities where a plan sponsor is in bankruptcy. Revises provisions relating to substantial owner benefits to modify the phase-in of guarantee and the allocation of assets. Phases out the variable rate premium cap. Title III: Participant Services - Amends ERISA to require the plan administrator of a plan subject to a specified additional premium to notify plan participants and beneficiaries of the plan's funding status and the limits on the PBGC's guaranty should the plan terminate while underfunded. Adds provisions relating to missing participants. Revises provisions relating to modification of the maximum guarantee for disability benefits. Title IV: Miscellaneous Amendments - Amends IRC and ERISA with respect to: (1) citation of this Act; (2) definition of contributing sponsor; (3) recovery ratio; (4) distress termination criteria for banking institutions; (5) single sum distributions; (6) adjustments to the lien for missed minimum funding contributions; (7) rounding rules for cost of living adjustments; (8) limitation on cross-testing in defined contribution plans; and (9) funding of restored plans. Title V: Effective Dates - Sets forth effective dates for this Act.",2025-08-26T13:49:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1780 103-s-1781,103,s,1781,Black Lung Benefits Restoration Act,Labor and Employment,1993-11-23,1994-03-15,Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 103-514.,Senate,"Sen. Simon, Paul [D-IL]",IL,D,S000423,7,"Black Lung Benefits Restoration Act - Amends the Black Lung Benefits Act (the Act) to provide that, when black lung benefits are paid after an initial determination of eligibility, repayment of an overpayment will not be required even upon a final determination of ineligibility, if there was no fraud or deception by the claimant. Provides for refunds to claimants of any such repayments required before this Act. Provides for reimbursement by the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund to operators who made such benefit overpayments. Revises evidence requirements. Limits to three the number of medical examinations a claimant may submit, but authorizes an administrative law judge to require the claimant to submit to an additional medical examination. Prohibits the responsible operator or the Trust Fund from submitting or requiring more than the number of medical examinations conducted or submitted during the course of all proceedings by the claimant. Revises requirements for survivor benefits. Provides that a miner's death shall be considered to have occurred as a result of the pneumoconiosis if the miner was receiving benefits for, or was totally disabled by, pneumoconiosis at the time of death. Qualifies to receive survivor benefits any widow or widower of a miner who was married to the miner for at least nine months preceding the miner's death, or who had children as a result of such a marriage. Provides that widows or widowers of miners are not disqualified to receive survivor benefits if they remarry after attaining age 50; but prohibits them from receiving an augmentation in survivor benefits on any basis arising out of a subsequent marriage. Provides for notice and an opportunity for a hearing to appeal the Secretary's initial designation of liability as the responsible operator. Authorizes assessment of proceeding costs against any operator who does not have reasonable grounds to contest the designation. Requires that all reasonable legal costs and expenses incurred by the claimant be paid by the responsible operator, or the Trust Fund, after an administrative or judicial determination that the claimant is entitled to black lung benefits. Requires the Secretary or court to take action to assure that they are paid within 45 days after such determination. Requires the Trust Funds to pay any operator the legal costs the operator paid to a claimant determined in a later proceeding to be ineligible for benefits. Prohibits a claimant or respondent from appealing to the Benefits Review Board any order unless it has been made by an administrative law judge. Allows any claim filed under the Act after January 1, 1982, but before enactment of this Act, to be refiled after enactment of this Act for a de novo review on the merits. Provides for coverage of coke oven operators (or operators of machine shops or other operations reasonably related to coke ovens) under the Act and the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act. Revises provisions for compensation of: (1) the Benefits Review Board, under the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act; and (2) the Employee's Compensation Appeals Board, under Federal law relating to Federal employees.",2025-08-26T13:50:29Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1781 103-hr-3658,103,hr,3658,To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide that employees in classified positions in community colleges are not required to receive overtime compensation for service in a certified or other academic position.,Labor and Employment,1993-11-22,1993-12-09,"Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor Standards, Occupational Health and Safety.",House,"Rep. Lehman, Richard H. [D-CA-19]",CA,D,L000225,20,"Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide that community college employees in classified positions are not required to receive overtime compensation for additional service, on their own volition, in certified or academic positions.",2026-03-23T12:47:58Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/3658 103-hr-3672,103,hr,3672,To require the Secretary of Labor to establish cost-of-living indexes on a regional basis.,Labor and Employment,1993-11-22,1993-12-22,Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations.,House,"Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]",NY,D,N000002,0,Directs the Secretary of Labor to: (1) establish a system for determining cost-of-living indexes separately for each statistical area and each congressional district; and (2) publish the initial index for each such area and district. Authorizes appropriations.,2026-03-23T12:41:21Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/3672 103-hr-3705,103,hr,3705,To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide an exemption from that Act for inmates of penal or other correctional institutions who participate in certain programs.,Labor and Employment,1993-11-22,1994-07-14,Subcommittee Hearings Held.,House,"Rep. Thurman, Karen L. [D-FL-5]",FL,D,T000253,43,Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt from coverage under such Act inmates of penal or other correctional institutions who participate in correctional work programs.,2026-03-23T12:47:58Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/3705 103-s-1773,103,s,1773,Black Lung Benefits Restoration Act,Labor and Employment,1993-11-22,1993-11-22,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.,Senate,"Sen. Simon, Paul [D-IL]",IL,D,S000423,5,"Black Lung Benefits Restoration Act - Amends the Black Lung Benefits Act (the Act) to provide that, when black lung benefits are paid after an initial determination of eligibility, repayment of an overpayment will not be required even upon a final determination of ineligibility, if there was no fraud or deception by the claimant. Provides for refunds to claimants of any such repayments required before this Act. Provides for reimbursement by the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund to operators who made such benefit overpayments. Revises evidence requirements. Limits to three the number of medical examinations a claimant may offer, but authorizes an administrative law judge to require the claimant to submit to an additional medical examination. Prohibits the responsible operator or the Trust Fund from submitting or requiring more than the number of medical examinations conducted or submitted during the course of all proceedings by the claimant. Revises requirements for survivor benefits. Provides that a miner's death shall be considered to have occurred as a result of the pneumoconiosis if the miner was receiving benefits for, or was totally disabled by, pneumoconiosis at the time of death. Qualifies to receive survivor benefits any widow or widower of a miner who was married to the miner for at least nine months preceding the miner's death, or who had children as a result of such a marriage. Provides that widows or widowers of miners are not disqualified to receive survivor benefits if they remarry after attaining age 50, but prohibits them from receiving an augmentation in survivor benefits on any basis arising out of a subsequent marriage. Provides for notice and an opportunity for a hearing to appeal the Secretary's initial designation of liability as the responsible operator. Authorizes assessment of proceeding costs against any operator who does not have reasonable grounds to contest the designation. Requires that all reasonable legal costs and expenses incurred by the claimant be paid by the responsible operator, or the Trust Fund, after an administrative or judicial determination that the claimant is entitled to black lung benefits. Requires the Secretary or court to take action to assure that they are paid within 45 days after such determination. Requires the Trust Fund to pay any operator the legal costs the operator paid to a claimant determined in a later proceeding to be ineligible for benefits. Prohibits a claimant or respondent from appealing to the Benefits Review Board any order unless it has been made by an administrative law judge. Allows any claim filed under the Act after January 1, 1982, but before enactment of this Act, to be refiled after enactment of this Act for a de novo review on the merits. Provides for coverage of coke oven operators (or operators of machine shops or other operations reasonably related to coke ovens) under the Act and the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act. Revises provisions for compensation of: (1) the Benefits Review Board, under the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act; and (2) the Employee's Compensation Appeals Board, under Federal law relating to Federal employees. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for reduction in the tax rate for the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund only when the Trust Fund is solvent. Revises the rate of interest on repayable advances and the refinancing of accumulated advances for the Trust Fund.",2025-08-26T13:52:25Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1773 103-s-1755,103,s,1755,Employee Ownership Promotion and Improvement Act of 1993,Labor and Employment,1993-11-20,1993-11-20,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.,Senate,"Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]",NM,D,B000468,0,"TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Investment Incentives Title II: Incentives to Employees Title III: State Programs to Encourage Employee Ownership Employee Ownership Promotion and Improvement Act of 1993 - Title I: Investment Incentives - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income, for taxpayers other than corporations, a percentage of the gain from the sale or exchange of qualified stock of an employee-owned business held for at least five years. Treats such exclusion as an item of tax preference. Makes the securities of publicly traded companies eligible for the deferral of capital gains tax on the sale of stock to employee stock ownership plans (ESOP) or certain cooperatives. Removes ESOP dividends as a tax preference item for calculation of corporate alternative minimum tax. Title II: Incentives to Employees - Allows an ESOP to include certain characteristics of other pension plans, such as cash or deferred arrangements and matching contributions. Increases the limitation on elective deferrals for contributions to ESOPs. Excludes from gross income 50 percent of the lump sum distribution from ESOPs. Excludes from gross income capital gain on an employee's investment in employer securities if: (1) the security is originally issued to or purchased by an employee and held for at least ten years; (2) the employee is at least 55 years old; and (3) the security is sold within one year after separation. Allows employee-owned businesses to take a deduction equal to the compensation element of incentive stock options for the year in which the option is exercised, while allowing the recipient to defer taxes until the stock is sold. Allows S corporations to sponsor ESOPs. Title III: State Programs to Encourage Employee Ownership - Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish a program to facilitate the establishment of State programs to foster increased employee ownership and greater employee participation in business decisionmaking. Requires the Secretary to establish the Office of Employee Ownership and Participation to support existing state programs and facilitate new state programs, including: (1) making of matching Federal grants; (2) acting as a clearinghouse for information; and (3) facilitating information exchange and promoting State programs. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T13:51:46Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1755 103-s-1713,103,s,1713,Work Force Diversity Partnership Act of 1993,Labor and Employment,1993-11-19,1993-11-19,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]",CT,D,D000388,0,"Work Force Diversity Partnership Act of 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to award grants for public-private partnerships to encourage work force diversity through study of relevant issues and development of education and training materials and programs. Makes eligible for such grants institutions of higher education in partnership with for-profit or nonprofit corporations, businesses, or partnerships, labor organizations, or organizations with demonstrated interest or expertise in such issues. Gives priority to grant proposals demonstrating availability of sufficient amounts of non-Federal contributions, or resources from non-governmental entities. Requires peer review panels, recipient reports, and annual reports by the Secretary. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T13:48:49Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1713 103-s-1661,103,s,1661,Worker Protection Warnings Act of 1993,Labor and Employment,1993-11-16,1993-11-16,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Durenberger, Dave [R-MN]",MN,R,D000566,4,"Worker Protection Warnings Act of 1993 - Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to direct the Secretary of Labor to issue a final regulation establishing, as occupational safety and health standards, uniform warnings for personal protective equipment for occupational use. Requires such regulation to be issued within 12 months after enactment of this Act, meet certain conditions, and incorporate specified considerations. Preempts State and local law with respect to such standards.",2025-08-26T13:52:32Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1661 103-hr-3481,103,hr,3481,Pension Restoration Act of 1993,Labor and Employment,1993-11-09,1993-12-09,Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations.,House,"Rep. Roemer, Tim [D-IN-3]",IN,D,R000385,4,"Pension Restoration Act of 1993 - Establishes a Federal annuity program, administered by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, to compensate participants in private pension plans which were terminated before September 1, 1974, for nonforfeitable pension benefits lost by reason of the termination. Sets forth provisions for such annuity program, relating to: (1) entitlement; (2) computation; (3) applications; (4) administrative appeals; (5) judicial review; (6) payment; (7) interagency coordination and cooperation; and (8) regulations. Provides for use of certain funds under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to pay such annuities and the administrative costs of such program.",2026-03-23T12:41:21Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/3481 103-hr-3396,103,hr,3396,Retirement Protection Act of 1994,Labor and Employment,1993-10-28,1994-08-26,"Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 391.",House,"Rep. Ford, William D. [D-MI-13]",MI,D,F000270,4,"TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Pension Plan Funding Subtitle A: Amendments to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 Subtitle B: Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 Title II: Amendments Related to Title IV of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 Title III: Participant Services Title IV: Miscellaneous Amendments Title V: Effective Dates and Related Rules Retirement Protection Act of 1994 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to revise provisions for pension plan funding, compliance, premiums, and participant protection and services. Title I: Pension Plan Funding - Subtitle A: Amendments to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 - Amends ERISA requirements for pension plan funding, including: (1) minimum funding, revising additional funding requirements for single-employer plans; (2) limitation on changes in current liability assumptions; (3) anticipation of bargained benefit increases; and (4) modification of the quarterly contribution requirement. Subtitle B: Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 - Amends IRC requirements for pension plan funding, including: (1) minimum funding, revising additional funding requirements for single-employer plans; (2) limitation on changes in current liability assumptions; (3) anticipation of bargained benefit increases; (4) modification of the quarterly contribution requirement; and (5) exceptions to the excise tax on nondeductible contributions. Title II: Amendments Related to Title IV of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 - Amends title IV (Plan Termination Insurance) of ERISA to revise requirements relating to reportable events. Authorizes the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) to apply for other judicial relief as an alternative to involuntary termination. Requires that specified additional information be furnished to the PBGC. Adds provisions relating to liability upon liquidation of a contributing sponsor or controlled group member where a single-employer plan remains ongoing. Revises provisions for: (1) enforcement of minimum funding requirements; and (2) remedies for noncompliance with requirements for standard termination. Prohibits benefit increases or other changes which increase plan liabilities where a plan sponsor is in bankruptcy. Revises provisions relating to substantial owner benefits to modify the phase-in of guarantee and the allocation of assets. Phases out the variable rate premium cap. Title III: Participant Services - Amends ERISA to require the plan administrator of a plan subject to a specified additional premium to notify plan participants and beneficiaries of the plan's funding status and the limits on the PBGC's guaranty should the plan terminate while underfunded. Adds provisions relating to missing participants. Revises provisions relating to modification of the maximum guarantee for disability benefits. Title IV: Miscellaneous Amendments - Amends IRC and ERISA with respect to: (1) citation of this Act; (2) definition of contributing sponsor; (3) distress termination criteria for banking institutions; (4) single sum distributions; (5) adjustments to the lien for missed minimum funding contributions; (6) rounding rules for cost of living adjustments; and (7) funding of restored plans. Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to specified congressional committees on underfunding. Title V: Effective Dates and Related Rules - Sets forth effective dates for this Act. Requires any change in the prevailing commissioners' standard table to be appropriate for terminating pension plans and to apply to plan years beginning on or after the later of January 1, 2000, or a date determined by the Secretary of the Treasury that is after the Secretary's issuance of a revised table based on such standard table. Directs the Secretary, in issuing regulations for such revised table, to take into account the results of any independent studies on appropriate bases and public comment on such studies.",2026-03-23T12:41:21Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/3396 103-hr-3409,103,hr,3409,To amend the Social Security Act to exclude the Unemployment Trust Fund from the budget of the United States Government.,Labor and Employment,1993-10-28,1993-11-03,Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.,House,"Rep. Long, Jill L. [D-IN-4]",IN,D,L000420,7,"Amends the Social Security Act, the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act), and the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to provide for excluding the Unemployment Trust Fund from Federal budget calculations.",2025-02-04T16:54:13Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/3409 103-sres-159,103,sres,159,A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the Department of Labor should provide adequate resources to the States to cover the costs of developing and implementing the worker profiling system and should provide the Governors with adequate flexibility to ensure that the funds appropriated will be made available to provide reemployment services for profiled claimants.,Labor and Employment,1993-10-28,1993-10-28,"Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S14600-14601)",Senate,"Sen. Coverdell, Paul [R-GA]",GA,R,C000813,1,Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Department of Labor should provide adequate: (1) resources to the States to cover costs of developing and implementing the worker profiling system; and (2) flexibility for Governors to ensure that the appropriated funds will be made available to provide reemployment services for profiled claimants.,2021-06-02T20:15:37Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-resolution/159 103-sres-156,103,sres,156,A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate with respect to future extensions of the emergency unemployment compensation program.,Labor and Employment,1993-10-27,1993-10-27,"Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S14488)",Senate,"Sen. Nickles, Don [R-OK]",OK,R,N000102,2,"Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) it does not anticipate the need for enactment of a further extension of the emergency unemployment compensation program; and (2) the Administration should propose, and the Congress should enact, legislation to reform the current unemployment insurance system.",2021-06-02T20:15:36Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-resolution/156 103-s-1580,103,s,1580,"A bill to provide that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 does not preempt certain State laws, and for other purposes.",Labor and Employment,1993-10-21,1994-03-10,Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 103-506.,Senate,"Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]",PA,R,S000709,1,"Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to provide that title I (Protection of Employee Benefit Rights) does not preempt any State law which provides for: (1) the payment of prevailing wages; (2) standards or other requirements relating to apprenticeship or other training programs; or (3) liens, bonding, or other security to collect delinquent contributions to a multiemployer plan.",2025-04-21T12:24:17Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1580 103-s-1573,103,s,1573,Leave Equity for Adoptive Families Act of 1993,Labor and Employment,1993-10-20,1993-10-20,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Simon, Paul [D-IL]",IL,D,S000423,3,Leave Equity for Adoptive Families Act of 1993 - Makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to discriminate against an employee regarding any term or condition of any leave benefit because a child of an employee is not his or her biological child. Authorizes civil actions to enforce this Act.,2025-08-26T13:49:52Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1573 103-s-1567,103,s,1567,Labor Relations Remedies Act of 1993,Labor and Employment,1993-10-19,1994-02-01,Referred to Subcommittee on Labor.,Senate,"Sen. Simon, Paul [D-IL]",IL,D,S000423,0,"Labor Relations Remedies Act of 1993 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 (LMRA) to provide for additional remedies in certain unfair labor practices cases. Requires the National Labor Relations Board to award back pay in an amount three times the employee's wage rate at the time the employee was discharged in violation of the NLRA. Permits an employee to also sue in such cases for additional compensatory and punitive damages in a Federal district court or any other court having jurisdiction over the parties, under the LMRA.",2025-08-26T13:50:24Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1567 103-s-1568,103,s,1568,Labor Relations First Contract Negotiations Act of 1993,Labor and Employment,1993-10-19,1994-02-01,Referred to Subcommittee on Labor.,Senate,"Sen. Simon, Paul [D-IL]",IL,D,S000423,1,"Labor Relations First Contract Negotiations Act of 1993 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to require mediation and, if necessary, binding arbitration of initial contract negotiation disputes.",2025-08-26T13:51:43Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1568 103-s-1553,103,s,1553,Labor Relations Remedies Act of 1993,Labor and Employment,1993-10-18,1994-02-01,Referred to Subcommittee on Labor.,Senate,"Sen. Simon, Paul [D-IL]",IL,D,S000423,0,"Labor Relations Remedies Act of 1993 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 (LMRA) to provide for additional remedies in certain unfair labor practices cases. Requires the National Labor Relations Board to award back pay in an amount three times the employee's wage rate at the time the employee was discharged in violation of the NLRA. Permits an employee to also sue in such cases for additional compensatory and punitive damages in a Federal district court or any other court having jurisdiction over the parties, under the LMRA.",2025-08-26T13:52:13Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1553 103-s-1554,103,s,1554,Labor Relations First Contract Negotiations Act of 1993,Labor and Employment,1993-10-18,1994-02-01,Referred to Subcommittee on Labor.,Senate,"Sen. Simon, Paul [D-IL]",IL,D,S000423,1,"Labor Relations First Contract Negotiations Act of 1993 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to require mediation and, if necessary, binding arbitration of initial contract negotiation disputes.",2025-08-26T13:49:28Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1554 103-s-1563,103,s,1563,American Jobs Protection Act,Labor and Employment,1993-10-18,1993-10-18,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Riegle, Donald W., Jr. [D-MI]",MI,D,R000249,0,"American Jobs Protection Act - Requires employers to provide specified notice and employee benefits (including severance pay, continuation of health care benefits, reimbursement for retraining, training incentive payments, and accelerated eligibility for early retirement) to employees who are subject to a plant closing or mass layoff because their work is transferred to (or similar products are imported from) another country which has specified levels of lower wages or less effective employment standards for overtime compensation, child labor, and employee safety. Prohibits employers who do not provide such notice and benefits, except in cases of national security, from entering into a contract with the United States for provision of products or services involved in the work transfer or substantially similar products or services. Provides for enforcement of this Act by: (1) investigative and administrative actions and actions for injunctions by the Secretary of Labor; and (2) civil actions by employees, local governments, States, and the Secretary. Requires employers to post notice concerning this Act and the filing of a charge. Authorizes civil fines for violations.",2025-08-26T13:51:01Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1563 103-hr-3278,103,hr,3278,Income Equity Act of 1993,Labor and Employment,1993-10-13,1993-11-03,"Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor Standards, Occupational Health and Safety.",House,"Rep. Sabo, Martin Olav [D-MN-5]",MN,D,S000005,7,Income Equity Act of 1993 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the minimum wage from $4.25 to $6.50 an hour. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny employers a deduction for payments of excessive compensation (more than 25 times the lowest compensation paid any other employee).,2026-03-23T12:47:58Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/3278 103-s-1528,103,s,1528,National Labor Relations Board Ruling Time Limit Act of 1993,Labor and Employment,1993-10-07,1994-02-01,Referred to Subcommittee on Labor.,Senate,"Sen. Simon, Paul [D-IL]",IL,D,S000423,0,National Labor Relations Board Ruling Time Limit Act of 1993 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to set a time limit for National Labor Relations Board rulings on employee discharge complaints.,2025-08-26T13:51:16Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1528 103-s-1529,103,s,1529,Labor Relations Representative Amendment Act of 1993,Labor and Employment,1993-10-07,1994-02-01,Referred to Subcommittee on Labor.,Senate,"Sen. Simon, Paul [D-IL]",IL,D,S000423,0,Labor Relations Representative Amendment Act of 1993 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to provide for an expedited election when 60 percent of the employees sign union recognition cards.,2025-08-26T13:50:47Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1529 103-s-1530,103,s,1530,Federal Contracts Debarment Act of 1993,Labor and Employment,1993-10-07,1994-02-01,Referred to Subcommittee on Labor.,Senate,"Sen. Simon, Paul [D-IL]",IL,D,S000423,0,"Federal Contracts Debarment Act of 1993 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to make ineligible for all Federal contracts for a period of three years any person or entity that, with a clear pattern and practice, violates such Act. Allows removal of such debarment or reduction of such period under certain conditions.",2025-08-26T13:48:53Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1530 103-s-1531,103,s,1531,National Labor Relations Penalty Act of 1993,Labor and Employment,1993-10-07,1994-02-01,Referred to Subcommittee on Labor.,Senate,"Sen. Simon, Paul [D-IL]",IL,D,S000423,0,"National Labor Relations Penalty Act of 1993 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to impose a fine on any person, including a consulting or legal firm, for encouraging an employer or labor organization to violate such Act.",2025-08-26T13:52:20Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/1531