S 1666
116th Congress
Senate
Labor and Employment
Corporate finance and management
Department of Labor
Employee benefits and pensions
Executive agency funding and structure
Labor-management relations
WORK Act
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 23, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
May 23, 2019
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
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.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Committees of jurisdiction
1