Empowering App-Based Workers Act

This bill sets rules for companies that use apps to assign and manage work, such as ride-hail and delivery services. Companies would have to tell workers how their monitoring tools and automated systems collect data, set pay, assign work, and decide on suspensions, and give workers itemized receipts and weekly pay statements. Ride-hail and other on-demand transportation apps could keep no more than 25 percent of what a customer pays, not counting tips. The bill limits paying different workers different amounts for similar tasks based on personal data, and it bans using worker data to infer traits such as immigration status, health, or union sympathy. Workers, consumers, and labor groups could sue, and the Department of Labor could investigate and impose fines starting at $25,000 per violation.

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Sponsors

• Pramila Jayapal Democrat sponsor
• 14 cosponsors