HR 2299 — Ensuring Workers Get PAID Act of 2025

changes in existing law made by 
the bill, as reported, are shown as follows (new matter is 
printed in italics and existing law in which no change is 
proposed is shown in roman):

 FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938

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 prohibited acts

 Sec. 15. (a) After the expiration of one hundred and twenty 
days from the date of enactment of this Act, it shall be 
unlawful for any person--
 (1) to transport, offer for transportation, ship, 
 deliver, or sell in commerce, or to ship, deliver, or 
 sell with knowledge that shipment or delivery or sale 
 thereof in commerce is intended, any goods in the 
 production of which any employee was employed in 
 violation of section 6 or section 7, or in violation of 
 any regulation or order of the Secretary of Labor 
 issued under section 14; except that no provision of 
 this Act shall impose any liability upon any common 
 carrier for the transportation in commerce in the 
 regular course of its business of any goods not 
 produced by such common carrier, and no provision of 
 this Act shall excuse any common carrier from its 
 obligation to accept any goods for transportation; and 
 except that any such transportation, offer, shipment, 
 delivery, or sale of such goods by a purchaser who 
 acquired them in good faith in reliance on written 
 assurance from the producer that the goods were 
 produced in compliance with the requirements of the 
 Act, and who acquired such goods for value without 
 notice of any such violation, shall not be deemed 
 unlawful;
 (2) to violate any of the provisions of section 6 or 
 section 7, or any of the provisions of any regulation 
 or order of the Secretary issued under section 14;
 (3) to discharge or in any other manner discriminate 
 against any employee because such employee has filed 
 any complaint or instituted or caused to be instituted 
 any proceeding under or related to this Act, or has 
 testified or is about to testify in any such 
 proceeding, or has served or is about to serve on an 
 industry committee, or has accepted or declined to 
 accept an offer for settlement under section 4(d) of 
 the Ensuring Workers Get PAID Act of 2025;
 (4) to violate any of the provisions of section 12;
 (5) to violate any of the provisions of section 11(c) 
 or any regulation or order made or continued in effect 
 under the provisions of section 11(d), or to make any 
 statement, report, or record filed or kept pursuant to 
 the provisions of such section or of any regulation or 
 order thereunder, knowing such statement, report, or 
 record to be false in a material respect; and
 (6) to violate any of the provisions of section 18D.
 (b) For the purposes of subsection (a)(1) proof that any 
employee was employed in any place of employment where goods 
shipped or sold in commerce were produced, within ninety days 
prior to the removal of the goods from such place of 
employment, shall be prima facie evidence that such employee 
was engaged in the production of such goods.

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