HR 3007 116th Congress House

WORK Act

Official title: To establish an Employee Ownership and Participation Initiative, and for other purposes.

Introduced: May 23, 2019 Introduced by: Pocan, Mark Democratic · Wisconsin 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 23, 2019

Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

May 23, 2019

Introduced in House

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Latest action May 23, 2019

Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

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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