Ensuring Workers Get PAID Act of 2025
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, Ensuring Workers Get PAID Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting workers, employers, and labor regulators. The main policy domain is Labor, Government Operations, Transportation.
Who Benefits and How
workers, employers, and labor regulators may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, workers, employers, and labor regulators may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section S1: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Ensuring Workers Get PAID Act of 2025.
- Section id7546439CE14A4CA6AC7791ED6CEF61C0: 2. Findings Congress finds the following: In 2018, the Department of Labor launched the nationwide Payroll Audit Independent Determination pilot program...
- Section idbadd20415f46496280cf956d407213de: 3. Definitions In this Act: The term affected employee means an employee affected by a violation of a minimum wage or overtime hours requirement of the Fair...
- Section id024b76ee205a44ffb17774578e4cded8: 4. Payroll Audit Independent Determination program The Administrator shall establish a Payroll Audit Independent Determination program (referred to in this...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, Ensuring Workers Get PAID Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting workers, employers, and labor regulators.
Key Policy Areas
Labor, Government Operations, Transportation
Primary Purpose
This bill, Ensuring Workers Get PAID Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting workers, employers, and labor regulators.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- workers, employers, and labor regulators
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- workers, employers, and labor regulators
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Sheehy (for himself, Mrs. Blackburn, and Mr. Budd) introduced …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, …
Introduced in Senate
Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_administrator"
- → The Administrator identified in the operative section
- "secretary_of_labor"
- → Secretary of Labor
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
the Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor. The term employee— has the meaning given such term in section 3 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 203)
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