Offshoring Notification Act

Bill: 116-hr-5600
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Axne, Cynthia [D-IA-3]
Introduced: 2020-01-14
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employment and training programs

Employment discrimination and employee rights

Labor-management relations

Marshall Islands

Micronesia

Palau

U.S. territories and protectorates

Unemployment
Latest action: action_date: 2020-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-01-14
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Offshoring Notification Act</b></p> <p>This bill revises worker adjustment and retraining notification requirements to require employers to disclose whether they plan to continue to produce the goods and services that their employees were producing or providing prior to a plant closing or mass layoff. It also requires such employers to state whether production will be performed for them by employees or contractors outside the United States.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5600 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 14, 2020 Mrs. Axne introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor A BILL To amend the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act to provide a notice requirement regarding offshoring.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Offshoring Notification Act . 2. Definition Section 2(a) of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act ( 29 U.S.C. 2101 ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (7), by striking and at the end; (2) in paragraph (8), by striking the period and inserting ; and ; and (3) by adding at the end the following: (9) the term United States includes each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau, and each territory or possession of the United States. . 3. Notice Section 3 of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act ( 29 U.S.C. 2102(a) ) is amended— (1) by redesignating subsections (b), (c), and (d) as subsections (c), (d), and (e), respectively; and (2) by inserting after subsection (a) the following: (b) Offshoring information The notice shall contain information stating— (1) whether the employer plans to continue producing the good or providing the service that the affected employees have been producing or providing; and (2) if so, whether the production or provision will be performed for the employer, by employees or contractors outside the United States. .