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(B) exploring options to provide retirement 
benefits to all workers regardless of the type of 
employment or level of compensation the worker 
received through the course of their work his-
tory, including by expanding Social Security or 
establishing funded portable retirement ac-
counts; 
(C) exploring the viability of a Federal 
guaranteed basic income program; 
(D) ensuring enforcement of wage and 
hour regulations by— 
(i) providing a private right of action 
for affected workers in the restaurant in-
dustry; 
(ii) increasing Federal resources for 
investigation and enforcement of wage vio-
lations in the restaurant industry; 
(iii) engaging in strategic enforcement 
of the restaurant industry, which includes 
conducting proactive, rather than reactive, 
investigations; 
(iv) developing sustained partnerships 
with worker centers, unions, legal advocacy 
organizations, and other community-based 
organizations that are embedded in res-
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taurant worker communities to conduct in-
vestigations; 
(v) investing resources into informa-
tional campaigns to businesses and know 
your rights campaigns for workers; 
(vi) strengthening penalties and rem-
edies for wage violations in the restaurant 
industry and engaging in robust compli-
ance agreements with violators; and 
(vii) ensuring that employers are sub-
ject to penalties if they retaliate against 
restaurant workers who report wage viola-
tions; 
(E) modernizing and reforming Federal 
unemployment insurance laws to— 
(i) 
guarantee 
universal 
minimum 
standards for benefits eligibility, duration, 
and adequacy, with States free to enact 
more expansive benefits; 
(ii) reform financing of Federal unem-
ployment insurance to eliminate incentives 
for States and employers to exclude work-
ers, reduce benefits, and contest valid 
claims; 
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(iii) update eligibility standards to 
match the modern workforce, and guar-
antee benefits to underemployed and part 
time workers, and everyone looking for 
work but still jobless through no fault of 
their own, including workers engaged in 
caregiving; and 
(iv) enact a Federal requirement that 
all States provide at least 26 weeks of UI 
benefits, and use better measures of labor 
market distress to automatically extend 
and sustain benefits during downturns; 
(F) requiring that large companies and 
franchisors first offer rehiring opportunities to 
former employees, before hiring new employees, 
to stop employers from cutting costs by letting 
go of their experienced, higher-paid workers in 
favor of new, lower-paid workers; 
(G) eliminating at-will employment and en-
acting just cause termination policies that— 
(i) require that employers have just 
cause for termination of employment; 
(ii) ensure that employers’ rules and 
regulations (those which if broken could 
cause termination) are standardized, just, 
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reasonable, and are in place to make the 
workplace safe and legal; 
(iii) place the burden of proof that an 
employee is in violation of any such rule of 
regulation on the employer; 
(iv) ensure that employers thoroughly 
inform employees regarding fireable of-
fenses; 
(v) require that employers provide em-
ployees with ample notice regarding viola-
tions; 
(vi) ensure that employers carry out a 
thorough and just investigation when a 
worker is accused of a fireable offense; 
(vii) ensure that employees are not re-
taliated against by employers for exercising 
their right to contest termination in a judi-
cial or internal process; and 
(viii) ensure that traditionally ex-
cluded workers like domestic, agriculture, 
and undocumented workers are included in 
any such policies; 
(H) enacting policies that help ensure af-
fordable housing as a human right for all 
Americans, including by— 
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(i) modernizing the current Federal 
Housing program to ensure free, quality 
federally funded subsidies, support, and 
guidance for restaurant workers to obtain 
affordable housing and mitigate bureau-
cratic obstacles; 
(ii) increasing investment in building 
and preserving affordable housing to ad-
dress the severe shortage of affordable 
homes for people with low incomes; 
(iii) taking expanded steps to prevent 
evictions, including by establishing a na-
tional housing stabilization fund to help 
families facing a financial shock avoid evic-
tion; 
(iv) taking steps to advance fair hous-
ing and racial equity in housing, including 
improving enforcement of the Fair Hous-
ing Act and expanding it to prohibit hous-
ing discrimination based on sexual orienta-
tion and gender identity; and 
(v) allocating additional resources to 
combat homelessness; 
(I) 
investing 
in 
a 
robust, 
qualified 
childcare system that is accessible to all work-
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ers, regardless of their ability to pay or their 
immigration status, by— 
(i) establishing free, quality federally 
funded training programs and advance-
ment opportunities for early educators; 
(ii) ensuring child care providers 
make a thriving wage to support them-
selves and their families and thrive; 
(iii) ensuring equal access to childcare 
for all parents and caretakers, not just 
birthing mothers; 
(iv) ensuring a wide variety of funded 
options that meet caretakers’ diverse and 
unique needs; 
(v) expanding the funding and scope 
of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Child-
hood Home Visiting Program; and 
(vi) ensuring access to free, quality, 
nontraditional hour care, including night 
care; 
(3) the right to healing and rest will be imple-
mented by— 
(A) a Federal requirement that employers 
provide paid sick, family, medical and vacation 
leave to all restaurant workers regardless of 
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their immigration status, implemented through 
the enactment of— 
(i) Federal legislation that guarantees 
all employees a minimum amount of paid 
family and medical leave, with continued 
health insurance coverage and meaningful 
wage replacement during leave, and with 
guaranteed job security and protection 
from retaliation upon the employee’s re-
turn from leave; 
(ii) Federal legislation that entitles all 
workers to a minimum number of paid 
days of vacation; and 
(iii) Federal legislation that mandates 
a minimum number of hours of paid sick 
and safe leave per calendar year for per-
sonal and family care regardless of posi-
tion, tenure, and hours worked per week; 
and 
(B) a Federal requirement that busi-
nesses— 
(i) post employees’ work schedules at 
least two weeks in advance or not later 
than a certain number of days before their 
shift begins; 
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(ii) ensure adequate rest between 
shifts; 
(iii) provide employees with additional 
pay when employers make last-minute 
schedule changes and for on-call shifts; 
(iv) allow employees to make sched-
uling requests or decline schedule changes 
without fear of retaliation; 
(v) offer newly available hours to 
qualified existing staff before making new 
hires; and 
(vi) ensure that employees not be pe-
nalized or retaliated against for lawful ab-
sences under no-fault attendance policies. 
(4) the right to a safe and dignified work envi-
ronment will be implemented by— 
(A) taking steps to ensure workplace 
health and safety in the restaurant industry, in-
cluding by— 
(i) requiring employers, with input 
from employees, to develop, adopt, and dis-
tribute plans, which must at a minimum 
follow guidelines from the CDC and 
OSHA, to protect employees’ health and 
safety at work that must be activated when 
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a Federal or State pandemic state of emer-
gency is declared; 
(ii) requiring employers to train all 
workers on hazards and the measures the 
employer has implemented in the work-
place to protect workers from dangers in-
cluding working with sharp knives, elec-
trical hazards, slippery and cluttered 
floors, fire hazards and burns from cooking 
equipment and hot food, musculoskeletal 
disorders, dangerous cleaning and other 
chemicals, 
workplace 
violence, 
and 
COVID–19; 
(iii) requiring employers to permit em-
ployees at a worksite to establish a joint 
labor-management workplace safety com-
mittee where employee members can raise 
health and safety concerns, hazards, com-
plaints, and violations to the employer to 
which the employer must respond; 
(iv) improving enforcement of existing 
workplace safety laws and better funding 
the Federal agencies tasked with enforcing 
those laws; and 
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(v) re-examining existing anti-retalia-
tion protections, lack of a worker’s private 
right of action, current standards, and 
penalties and sanctions for workplace safe-
ty violations and, if necessary, updating 
them to make sure they are effective; 
(B) enacting Federal policies to reduce the 
high rate of sex (including sexual orientation 
and gender identity) dicrimination, racial dis-
crimination, and other forms of employment 
discrimination in the restaurant industry by— 
(i) improving enforcement of existing 
laws on employment discrimination and 
better funding the Federal agencies tasked 
with enforcing those laws; 
(ii) clarifying and enforcing Federal 
laws regarding independent contractors to 
fight misclassification of employees in in-
dustries such as the on-demand economy; 
(iii) eliminating the use of the ‘‘felony 
box’’ in job applications by expanding the 
Federal ban the box law to private compa-
nies; 
(iv) enacting equal pay policies to 
eliminate currently existing gender and ra-
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cial pay disparities and adding significant 
penalties for employers who refuse to com-
ply; 
(v) ensuring that employers treat 
part-time and full-time employees equally 
when they hold substantially similar jobs; 
and 
(vi) establishing better mechanisms 
for workers to report discrimination with-
out fear of retaliation, especially for un-
documented workers, and ensuring that 
employers are subject to penalties if they 
retaliate against workers who report dis-
crimination; and 
(C) enacting Federal policies to ensure 
that all immigrant workers and their families 
currently in the United States have the oppor-
tunity to normalize their immigration status, 
whether by temporary authorization, lawful per-
manent status, or full citizenship, including im-
mediate eligibility to work and to access health 
care and other government programs and sup-
ports, as well as— 
(i) enacting H.R. 5227 (117th), the 
LIFT the BAR Act of 2021; and 
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(ii) enacting H.R. 3149 (117th), the 
HEAL for Immigrant Families Act of 
2021. 
(5) the right to healthcare and bodily autonomy 
will be implemented by— 
(A) ensuring that all individuals living in 
the United States have equal access to com-
prehensive, quality, affordable health care, with-
out the threat of financial hardship, by— 
(i) decoupling healthcare coverage 
from employment; and 
(ii) exploring moving toward a single- 
payer, government-administered healthcare 
system which would cover all residents of 
the United States for all medically nec-
essary services, including doctor, hospital, 
preventive, long-term care, mental health, 
abortion care and other reproductive health 
care, gender-affirming care, dental, vision, 
prescription drug, and medical supply 
costs; 
(B) taking steps to protect access to repro-
ductive rights and health care for all workers in 
the United States, irrespective of race, socio-
economic status, employer, State of residency, 
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immigration status, gender identity, and sexual 
orientation; and 
(C) enacting H.R. 2234 (117th), the 
EACH Act of 2021; and 
(6) the right to participation in governance will 
be implemented by— 
(A) taking steps to preserve the right of 
workers to freely organize and bargain collec-
tively with employers, including by— 
(i) eliminating the racist exclusions 
and barriers within the National Labor Re-
lations Act, providing full inclusion and the 
right to a union for all workers, including 
by— 
(I) reestablishing voluntary rec-
ognition of unions upon majority sup-
port without a secret election; and 
(II) guaranteeing the ability of 
workers to talk openly about unioniza-
tion at work and for union organizers 
to speak to workers openly; 
(ii) repealing the Labor Management 
Relations Act, 1947 (known as the ‘‘Taft- 
Hartley Act’’) and the amendments made 
by such Act; 
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(iii) enacting H.R. 842, the Protecting 
the Right to Organize Act of 2021; 
(iv) banning State and local ‘‘right-to- 
work’’ laws; 
(v) establishing strict and significant 
penalties when employers break laws to 
bust unions; and 
(vi) prohibiting ‘‘captive audience’’ 
meetings; and 
(B) protecting the right of all citizens to 
vote, and making voting as accessible as pos-
sible, especially for historically excluded commu-
nities, such as Black and Brown people, women, 
returning citizens, and those in poverty, by— 
(i) establishing universal registration 
and voting; 
(ii) opposing laws and policies which 
seek to erect further barriers and make 
ballot access more difficult; 
(iii) expanding voter registration and 
voting access; 
(iv) establishing Election Day as a 
Federal holiday; and 
(v) strengthening election security. 
Æ 
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