This bill would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to treat incarcerated workers as employees. It adds incarcerated workers who perform work in public or privately run correctional facilities to the FLSA employee definition, defines key terms (including "incarcerated worker," "correctional facility," and "court-imposed fee"), and says that costs for board, lodging, or other facilities and amounts taken to pay court-imposed fees may not be counted as the incarcerated worker's wage.
If enacted, people who work while incarcerated in a facility run by a public agency or by a private contractor would be covered by the FLSA employee definition. The bill says employers cannot include the cost of board, lodging, or other facility charges or use amounts taken to pay court-imposed fees as part of the wage paid to an incarcerated worker. The bill also lists what counts as a court-imposed fee and says some payments (for example, child support, victim compensation funds, civil judgments, and criminal fines) are not court-imposed fees under this bill.
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