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Treats workers who cannot work because of a labor dispute (for example, a strike or a lockout) as unemployed for purposes of unemployment insurance eligibility, beginning on one of several defined trigger dates. The law lists four possible starting points for that treatment: 14 days after a strike begins; the start of a lockout; when an employer hires permanent replacements; or when the strike/lockout ends and the worker becomes unemployed. It also amends the Social Security Act’s rule about work availability for UI, but the exact inserted text was not included in the excerpt.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced September 8, 2025 by Adam Schiff · Last progress September 8, 2025