US SB2851 | 2023-2024 | 118th Congress
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-1)
Status: Introduced on September 19 2023 - 25% progression
Action: 2023-09-19 - 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]
Status: Introduced on September 19 2023 - 25% progression
Action: 2023-09-19 - 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]
Summary
A bill to permit employees to request changes to their work schedules without fear of retaliation and to ensure that employers consider these requests, and to require employers to provide more predictable and stable schedules for employees in certain occupations with evidence of unpredictable and unstable scheduling practices that negatively affect employees, and for other purposes.
Title
Schedules That Work Act
Sponsors
| Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA] | Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT] | Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD] | Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN] |
| Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR] | Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI] | Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL] | Sen. John Fetterman [D-PA] |
| Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT] | Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI] | Sen. Christopher Murphy [D-CT] | Sen. Tammy Duckworth [D-IL] |
| Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA] | Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD] | Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA] | Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ] |
| Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT] | Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI] | Sen. Jack Reed [D-RI] | Sen. Alex Padilla [D-CA] |
| Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA] |
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-19 | Senate | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. |
Same As/Similar To
HB5563 (Same As) 2023-09-19 - Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, Oversight and Accountability, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Subjects
US Congress State Sources
| Type | Source |
|---|---|
| Summary | https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/2851/all-info |
| Text | https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/s2851/BILLS-118s2851is.pdf |
