Endorsed Bills
Below is a list of legislation that the Congressional Labor Caucus has officially endorsed.
Bill Status: Introduced | Date Last Action Taken:
Committees:
Labor Caucus Lead: Rep. Rosa DeLauro (CT-03)
Bill Summary: This legislation would help ensure that employees have more certainty about their work schedules and incomes. The bill protects workers who ask for schedule changes from retaliation, and it requires employers to consider their requests. For workers in retail, food service, and cleaning occupations, it requires employers to provide schedules two weeks in advance. The legislation also provides compensation to these employees when their schedules change abruptly, or they are assigned to particularly difficult shifts, including split shifts and call-in shifts. The bill also expands these same protections to hospitality and warehouse workers and establishes a right to rest between shifts – protecting workers from being forced to work a closing shift one night and the opening shift the next day – and compensating them adequately if they voluntarily do so.
Bill Status: Introduced | Date Last Action Taken:
Committees:
Labor Caucus Lead: Rep. Greg Casar (TX-35)
Bill Summary:The bill would raise federal overtime pay to double a worker’s wage for every hour worked over 40 hours a week, instead of the current rate of time and a half.
Bill Status: Introduced | Date Last Action Taken:
Committees:
Labor Caucus Lead: Rep. Janelle Bynum (OR-5)
Bill Summary: This bill seeks to codify into law access to 4 additional weeks of unpaid parental leave for Veterans Affairs (VA) workers. They were stripped of this, and other benefits when VA Secretary Doug Collins rescinded collective bargaining agreements with unions representing nearly 380,000 employees in August 2025. Secretary Collins’s justification for the action included unsubstantiated claims that union workers fight against the best interest of VA patients and that union leadership wants to reward bad workers. As recently as March 27, VA continued to defy court orders that reinstated union bargaining agreements.
Bill Status: Introduced | Date Last Action Taken:
Committees:
Labor Caucus Lead: Rep. Donald Norcross (NJ-01)
Bill Summary: This legislation would amend Section 8(d) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), to require that:
- After workers have voted to form a union, employers must begin negotiating with the new union within 10 days.
- If no agreement is reached after 90 days, the dispute will be referred to mediation.
- If mediation fails after 30 days, or additional periods agreed upon by both parties, the dispute will be referred to a binding 3-person arbitration panel to secure an initial contract.
- The Government Accountability Office commission a report on average workplace time-to-contract one year after enactment.
Bill Status: Introduced | Date Last Action Taken:
Committees:
Labor Caucus Lead: Rep. Rashida Tlaib (MI-12)
Bill Summary: This legislation would prohibit price gouging and surveillance pricing by grocery stores, including “personalized price gouging” where stores use consumers’ sensitive personal information against them to raise prices. The legislation also bans the use of electronic shelf labels (ESL’s) in large stores and requires food stores to disclose the use of facial recognition technology.
Bill Status: Introduced | Date Last Action Taken:
Committees:
Labor Caucus Lead: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14)
Bill Summary: This legislation would codify minimum wage and overtime protections for home care workers in federal labor law.
Bill Status: Introduced | Date Last Action Taken:
Committees:
Labor Caucus Lead: Rep. Rosa DeLauro (CT-03)
Bill Summary: This legislation would allow all workers to earn up to 7 job protected paid sick days each year to be used to recover from their own illnesses, access preventive care, provide care to a sick family member, or attend school meetings related to a child’s health condition or disability.
Bill Status: Introduced | Date Last Action Taken:
Committees:
Labor Caucus Lead: Rep. Greg Landsman (OH-01)
Bill Summary: This legislation would provide $1.4 billion a year to USPS to install high security collection boxes and deploy electronic keys for letter carriers to more securely access mail boxes and direct the U.S. Attorney General to appoint Assistant U.S. Attorneys in all 94 U.S. judicial districts to lead investigations and prosecutions of crimes against USPS employees, assets, and facilities.
Bill Status: Introduced | Date Last Action Taken:
Committees:
Labor Caucus Lead: Rep. Rosa DeLauro (CT-03)
Bill Summary: This legislation would provide workers with up to 12 weeks of partial income when they take leave, based on a percentage of their monthly wages, up to a capped amount
Bill Status: Introduced | Date Last Action Taken:
Committees:
Labor Caucus Lead: Rep. Sarah Elfreth (MD-03)
Bill Summary: This legislation would require student loans held by federal employees to be automatically put into forbearance during a government shutdown lasting longer than two weeks.