Low-Wage Federal Contractor Employee Back Pay Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-339
Sponsor: full_name: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2019-01-08
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations

Budget process

Public contracts and procurement

Wages and earnings
Latest action: action_date: 2019-01-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E47)

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-01-08
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Low-Wage Federal Contractor Employee Back Pay Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill requires the federal government to compensate employees of federal contractors that provide retail, food, custodial, or security services who are placed on unpaid leave as a result of a lapse in appropriations beginning in FY2019.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 339 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 8, 2019 Ms. Norton (for herself, Mr. Khanna , Mr. Beyer , Mr. Raskin , Mr. Connolly , Ms. Pressley , Ms. Wexton , Mr. Trone , Ms. Bonamici , Mr. Pocan , Ms. Moore , Mrs. Trahan , Ms. Meng , Ms. Schakowsky , Mrs. Torres of California , and Ms. Omar ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform A BILL To provide for the compensation of Federal contractor employees that may be placed on unpaid leave as a result of the Federal Government shutdown, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Low-Wage Federal Contractor Employee Back Pay Act of 2019 . 2. Compensation for furloughed Federal contractor employees Title VII of Division E of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 ( Public Law 115–141 ) is amended by adding at the end the following new section: 750. If a Federal contractor that provides retail, food, custodial, or security services to the Federal Government places the employees of such contractor on unpaid leave as a result of any lapse in appropriations which begins in fiscal year 2019, the Government shall provide compensation to such employees at their standard rate of compensation for the period of such lapse. .