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PA SB406
Bill
Status
3/10/2025
Primary Sponsor
Christine Tartaglione
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AI Summary
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Requires meat packing and food processing facilities with 100+ employees to establish joint labor-management health and safety committees that meet monthly, conduct workplace inspections, review incidents, and make recommendations to employers
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Mandates employers provide safety training to new employees during paid work hours, with information available in any language spoken by at least 5% of the workforce
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Creates an Industry Workers' Rights Coordinator position within the Department of Labor and Industry to investigate complaints and review employer compliance with worker health and safety standards
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Requires employers to pay out-of-pocket emergency medical transportation costs not covered by insurance when employees are injured or become ill on the job
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Imposes administrative penalties of $500 per day for noncompliance, increasing to up to $10,000 per day if violations are not cured within 10 days
Legislative Description
Providing for regulation of the meat packing and food processing industry by creating facility health and safety committees in the workplace; establishing the industry workers' rights coordinator within the Department of Labor and Industry; and imposing penalties.
Last Action
Referred to Labor & Industry
3/10/2025