Pennsylvania HB 2332: An Act requiring certain warehouses to provide written descriptions of employment quotas; imposing powers and duties on the Department of Labor and Industry; and imposing penalties.

Bill Text

PRINTER'S NO. 3106
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2332
Session of
2026
INTRODUCED BY D. WILLIAMS, HARKINS, WAXMAN, FREEMAN, HILL-EVANS,
GOUGHNOUR, OTTEN, CEPEDA-FREYTIZ, SAMUELSON, MALAGARI,
MADDEN, PARKER AND SANCHEZ, MARCH 30, 2026
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND INDUSTRY, MARCH 30, 2026
AN ACT
Requiring certain warehouses to provide written descriptions of
employment quotas; imposing powers and duties on the
Department of Labor and Industry; and imposing penalties.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Short title.
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Warehouse
Worker Protection Act.
Section 2. Definitions.
The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Adverse employment action." Discrimination, dismissal,
discipline, discharge or any other decision adverse to the
employee.
"Aggregated data." Data, information and statistics compiled
by an employer that is analyzed to measure employees'
performance and that cannot be identified with any individual
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employee.
"Authorized employee representative." An employee authorized
by employees or the designated representative of a labor
organization that has a collective bargaining relationship with
the cited employer and that represents affected employees who
are members of the collective bargaining agreement.
"Defined time period." Any unit of time measure equal to or
less than the duration of an employee's shift and includes
hours, minutes, seconds and any fraction thereof.
"Department." The Department of Labor and Industry of the
Commonwealth.
"Employee." An individual who works at a warehouse
distribution center that is subject to a quota.
"Employer." The term shall mean the same as defined under
section 103 of the act of June 2, 1915 (P.L.736, No.338), known
as the Workers' Compensation Act.
"Monetary damages." Financial compensation awarded to a
party that suffered a loss or injury as a result of the other
party's actions.
"Person." An individual, corporation, partnership, limited
partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability
corporation, business trust, estate, trust, association, joint
venture, agency, instrumentality or any other legal or
commercial entity, whether domestic or foreign.
"Personal work speed data." As follows:
(1) Data, information and statistics collected, stored,
analyzed or interpreted by an employer relating to an
employee's performance of a quota, including quantities of
tasks performed, quantities of items or materials handled or
produced, rates or speed of tasks performed, measurements or
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metrics of employee performance in relation to a quota, and
time categorized as performing and not performing tasks to
meet a quota.
(2) The term does not include personnel records,
itemized wage statements or qualitative performance
assessments.
"Quota." A standard in which an employee is assigned or
required to perform at a specific speed of production, complete
a quantifiable number of tasks or handle or produce a
quantifiable number of materials within a defined time period
and under which the employee may receive adverse employment
action for failure to meet the standards, whether an employee's:
(1) actions are categorized and measured between time
performing tasks and not performing tasks within an assigned
work shift; or
(2) performance is ranked in relation to the performance
of other employees.
"Warehouse distribution center." An entity with at least 100
employees which is engaged in activities defined by the North
American Industry Classification System under the following
codes:
(1) 423 Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods.
(2) 424 Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods.
(3) 492110 Couriers and Express Delivery Services.
(4) 493 Warehousing and Storage.
"Work speed data." Information and statistics collected,
stored, analyzed or interpreted by employers regarding an
individual employee's performance, including metrics such as
quantities of tasks performed, quantities of items or materials
handled or produced, rates or speeds of tasks performed or
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completed, measurements or metrics of employee performance in
relation to a quota productivity goal or comparison to other
employees, and time categorized as performing tasks or not
performing tasks.
Section 3. Notification of quotas.
Employees shall be notified of employee quotas in accordance
with the following:
(1) An employer shall provide to each employee, upon
hire or within 30 days of the effective date of this
paragraph, written and verbal notification of:
(i) Each quota that the employee is required to
comply with, including