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Al Green

Tagged in: Business, Contractors, Criminal justice, Criminal liability, Death, Employee leasing, Employers' liability, Fines (Penalties), Labor, Law

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To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act to provide for criminal liability for willful safety standard violations resulting in the death of contract employees.

5/22/2007--Introduced.

Equal Protection for All Workers Act - Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act to specifically include any individual employed under contract among employees whose deaths resulting from employers' willful violations of standards under the Act subject such employers to criminal penalties.
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Latest Actions
  • 07/17/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
  • 06/25/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
  • 05/22/2007 - Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on 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.
  • 05/22/2007 - Referred to House Education and Labor
  • 05/22/2007 - Referred to House Judiciary
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H.R.2435 Introduced in House08/31/2007