US Congress Senate Bill 2133 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-1)
Status: Introduced on March 13 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-03-13 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Fair Employment Protection Act of 2014 - Sets forth employer liability standards to be applied in employee harassment claims under specified provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Revised Statutes, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, the Government Employee Rights Act of 1991, employment discrimination laws relating to certain executive branch employees, and the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995. Declares employers under such Acts liable for the acts of any individual whose harassment of an employee has created or continued an unlawful hostile work environment if, at the time of the harassment: (1) such individual was authorized by that employer to undertake or recommend tangible employment actions affecting the employee or to direct the employee's daily work activities, or (2) the negligence of the employer led to the creation or continuation of that hostile work environment (thus modifies the liability standards provided by the Supreme Court in Vance v. Ball State University, which limited the category of supervisors for whom an employer may be held vicariously liable to those individuals who have authority to take tangible employment actions).

Fair Employment Protection Act of 2014

Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]
Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]	Sen. Al Franken [D-MN]	Sen. Tom Harkin [D-IA]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]
Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]	Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D-MD]	Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]
Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]	Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI]	Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY]	Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-03-13	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

HB4227 (Related) 2014-06-13 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/2133/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/s2133/BILLS-113s2133is.pdf