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Equal Pay and Workplace Safety: Bills Moving Forward

This House Resolution sets the stage for voting on two significant bills. One aims to give women more effective ways to address wage discrimination based on sex. The other requires employers in healthcare and social services to create plans to prevent workplace violence, enhancing employee safety.
Key points
Making it easier to seek remedies for unequal pay based on sex.
Mandating workplace violence prevention plans in healthcare and social services.
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VOTING RESULTS
2021-04-14
For 217
Against 207
Abstain 0
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Status:
Adopted
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Additional Information
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 7) to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes, and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1195) to direct the Secretary of Labor to issue an occupational safety and health standard that requires covered employers within the health care and social service industries to develop and implement a comprehensive workplace violence prevention plan, and for other purposes.
Print number: HRES 303
Sponsor: Rep. DeSaulnier, Mark [D-CA-11]
Process start date: 2021-04-13
Voting date: 2021-04-14
Meeting no: 1
Voting no: 103