RAISE Act

Bill: 116-hr-2992
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Johnson, Dusty [R-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2019-05-23
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employment discrimination and employee rights

Labor-management relations

Wages and earnings
Latest action: action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-05-23
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Rewarding Achievement and Incentivizing Successful Employees Act or the RAISE Act</b></p> <p>This bill declares that neither a labor organization's exclusive representation of employees in a bargaining unit, nor&nbsp;the terms of a collective bargaining contract or agreement entered into after enactment of this bill, shall prohibit an employer from paying an employee higher wages, pay, or other compensation than provided for in the contract or agreement. </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2992 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 23, 2019 Mr. Johnson of South Dakota introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor A BILL To amend the National Labor Relations Act to permit employers to pay higher wages to their employees.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Rewarding Achievement and Incentivizing Successful Employees Act or the RAISE Act . 2. Payment of higher wages Section 9(a) of the National Labor Relations Act ( 29 U.S.C. 159(a) ) is amended— (1) by inserting (1) after (a) ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (2) Notwithstanding a labor organization’s exclusive representation of employees in a unit, or the terms and conditions of any collective bargaining contract or agreement then in effect, nothing in either— (A) section 8(a)(1) or 8(a)(5), or (B) a collective bargaining contract or agreement renewed or entered into after the date of enactment of the RAISE Act, shall prohibit an employer from paying an employee in the unit greater wages, pay, or other compensation for, or by reason of, his or her services as an employee of such employer, than provided for in such contract or agreement. .