S. 1081 115th Congress Senate

WORK Act

Official title: A bill to establish an Employee Ownership and Participation Initiative, and for other purposes.

Introduced: May 10, 2017 Introduced by: Bernard Sanders Independent · Vermont See on congress.gov

Labor and Employment Corporate finance and managementDepartment of LaborEmployee benefits and pensionsExecutive agency funding and structureLabor-management relations

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May 10, 2017

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

May 10, 2017

Introduced in Senate

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Latest action May 10, 2017

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Worker Ownership, Readiness, and Knowledge Act or the WORK Act

This bill requires the Department of Labor to: (1) establish within the Employment and Training Administration an Employee Ownership and Participation Initiative to promote employee ownership and participation in business decisionmaking; and (2) establish a program that may include grants for outreach, technical assistance, and training to encourage new and existing state programs to foster employee ownership and participation in business decisionmaking.

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