Congress Proposes Raising Fines to $800,000 for Major Workplace Safety and Child Labor Violations
This bill is currently sitting in three different House committees and has not moved since December 2025. Because no action has been taken for about six months, the bill is considered stalled. It will need to be reviewed by these committees before it can move any further in the legislative process.
No action since December 2025
This bill’s path across every version that has carried it.
Reintroduced
Reintroduced from H.R. 9137 (118th), which died when its Congress ended.
H.R. 9137 (118th) →Scores run from -100 (strongly harmful) to +100 (strongly beneficial) for each group, combining impact, certainty, scope, and duration ratings of 1-5. How impact scoring works
Small businesses face dramatically higher financial exposure for labor law violations. Child labor fines jump to $150,000 per employee, wage and hour penalties rise to $25,000-$50,000 per violation, OSHA fines increase tenfold, and FMLA violations now carry penalties up to $25,000 per offense. While the bill instructs the NLRB to consider employer size when setting penalties, these increases could be financially devastating for small employers who make mistakes, even unintentional ones.
Referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and House Administration, 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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Introduced in House
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Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
LET’S Protect Workers Act
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