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Freedom to Work Act
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Freedom to Work Act This bill requires federal agencies to review and reduce occupational licensing requirements. Specifically, each executive agency must review relevant laws, policies, and regulations that institute occupational licensing requirements for agency positions, or that cause a state, local, or tribal government to adopt licensing requirements for positions within their jurisdictions, and identify possible changes to eliminate such requirements or to provide alternatives that are the least restrictive while also maintaining consumer protection. Agencies must implement changes to the extent permissible under law. The bill also requires states to describe their plans to reduce occupational licensing barriers as part of their unified state plans for programs under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. Several executive orders have required similar review of occupational licensing requirements. For example, the executive order titled Increasing Economic and Geographic Mobility, which was issued on December 14, 2020, outlined certain principles for occupational licensing requirements, including that such requirements should be the least restrictive to competition while also maintaining consumer protection; the order directed executive agencies to review and identify changes to their regulations, guidance, and policies in accordance with these principles. Additionally, the executive order titled Promoting Competition in the American Economy , which was issued on July 9, 2021, directs the Federal Trade Commission to consider addressing practices that inhibit competition, including unfair occupational licensing restrictions, through regulations.
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Filing registrants (4)
2021 · third_quarter · Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
HR 5079 "Open Schools Responsibly Act," all provisions. HR 1980 "Working Families Flexibility Act of 2021," all provisions. HR 3145 "Freedom to Work Act," all provisions. HR 2218 "Davis-Bacon Repeal Act," all provisions. Issues pertaining to the nomination of David Weil for administrator of the Wage and Hour Division for the Department of Labor.
Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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.
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Client expense: $150,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2021 · second_quarter · Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
H.R. 1082 Sami's Law Issues related to minimum wage PRO Act H.R. 3640, the State Antitrust Enforcement Venue Act H.R. 3826, Platform Competition & Opportunity Act H.R. 3816, American Choice and Innovation Online Act H.R. 3842, Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act H.R. 3825, Ending Platform Monopolies Act H.R. 3849, ACCESS Act Issues related to FTC UMC authority H.R. 3145, the Freedom to Work Act Issues related to Biden labor task force
Client expense: $70,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Defense, Dept of (DOD), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
2021 · second_quarter · Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
Issues regarding federal minimum wage: H.R. 1319, American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Issues regarding federal wage controls: H.R. 2490, Paycheck Fairness Act. Issues regarding enhanced antitrust enforcement (no specific legislation). Issues regarding occupational licensing: H.R. 3145, Freedom to Work Act.
Client expense: $10,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2021 · second_quarter · Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
H.R. 3145 - Freedom to Work Act of 2021 - a bill to require Executive agency review of occupational licensing requirements, (entire bill). General education regarding whistleblower protections for victims of independent contractor misclassification. General education regarding utilization of apprentices on federally supported transportation infrastructure projects. Recommended candidate for appointment to the Advisory Committee on Apprenticeships. S.1078 - Building U.S. Infrastructure by Leveraging Demands for Skills (BUILDS) Act of 2021 - a bill to require the Secretary of Labor to award grants for promoting industry or sector partnerships to encourage industry growth and competitiveness and to improve worker training, retention, and advancement as part of an infrastructure investment (entire bill). H.R.3445 - Jobs, On-the-Job Earn While You Learn Training, and Apprenticeships for Young African Americans Act of 2021 - a bill to amend the National Apprenticeship Act in order to increase and expand the national apprenticeship system to include the immediate recruitment, employment, and on-the-job earn-as-you-learn training of young African Americans, and to promote the development of equitable hiring standards necessary to safeguard the diversity of apprentices, and for other purposes (entire bill). Appropriations Bill for Fiscal Year 2022 - seeking report language supporting clean energy apprenticeships; Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill of 2021. (no bill introduced)
Client expense: $90,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Energy, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Executive Office of the President (EOP), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Transportation, Dept of (DOT), White House Office
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| Debbie Lesko | Republican | AZ |
| Doug LaMalfa | Republican | CA |
| J. French Hill | Republican | AR |
| Jim Banks | Republican | IN |
| Rick W. Allen | Republican | GA |
| Ronny Jackson | Republican | TX |
| Scott Perry | Republican | PA |
| Ted Budd | Republican | NC |
| W. Gregory Steube | Republican | FL |