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Fair Wages for Incarcerated Workers Act of 2023

This bill extends the protections under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, including minimum wage requirements, to incarcerated workers.

Incarcerated workers include individuals detained in a correctional facility who perform work offered or required by or through the correctional facility, including work associated with prison work programs, work release programs, federal prison industries (i.e., UNICOR program), state prison industries, public works programs, restitution centers, correctional facility operations and maintenance, and private entities.

Senate Actions

IntroReferral
Feb. 16 2023	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Library of Congress Actions

IntroReferral
Feb. 16 2023	Introduced in Senate

Senate bill S516-118

Fair Wages for Incarcerated Workers Act of 2023

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