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Committee debates lodging allowance study in omnibus labor bill, with members warning of wage impacts
Summary
During review of S.230, members questioned a proposed Department of Labor study of lodging/deduction rates and warned that a separate lodging rate for farmworker housing could entrench deductions that undermine wages and worker protections; the chair agreed to bring in technical witnesses before further action.
The House Committee on General Housing reviewed S.230 — an omnibus labor bill — on April 8 and focused debate on a newly added section asking the Department of Labor, in coordination with Agriculture and Commerce/Community Development, to study the lodging allowance methodology used when employers provide housing.
Committee staff described draft 2.1 and highlighted the lodging study provision (section 3a) asking officials to examine how the allowance was set (originally in 2009), whether the methodology should be updated and whether farmworker housing needs a separate lodging…
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