WAGE Act
Official title: To amend the National Labor Relations Act to strengthen protections for employees to exercise their rights to organize and collectively bargain for improved wa… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: To amend the National Labor Relations Act to strengthen protections for employees to exercise their rights to organize and collectively bargain for improved wages, hours, or other terms and conditions of employment, to sanction violations of such rights and assure meaningful remedies, to establish a process by which employers and employees conclude initial collective bargaining agreements, and for other purposes.
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Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Workplace Action for a Growing Economy Act or the WAGE Act
This bill amends the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) to
- require the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to award back pay and additional damages to any employee whose rights under the NLRA have been violated by an employer;
- impose penalties upon an employer for failing to post a notice of the rights of their employees under the NLRA;
- impose penalties upon an employer whose violations of the NLRA result in the discharge of an employee or other serious economic harm to the employee;
- provide civil remedies, including restraining orders, and a private right of action for violations of the NLRA;
- require the NLRB to issue an order requiring collective bargaining when a majority of valid ballots have been cast in favor of union representation;
- prevent the classification of employees as supervisors for the purpose of denying such employees the protections of the NLRA; and
- expedite the establishment of initial collective bargaining agreements.
The bill empowers the NLRB to enforce its own orders without petitioning a court for enforcement.
- Introduced in House Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4548: WAGE Act. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-4548/
"H.R. 4548: WAGE Act." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-4548/.
H.R. 4548, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-4548/.
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