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House of Representatives
Session of 2023 - 2024 Regular Session

MEMORANDUM

Posted: July 1, 2024 09:18 AM
From: Representative Tarik Khan and Rep. Dan L. Miller, Rep. Jason Dawkins, Rep. Joshua Siegel, Rep. G. Roni Green, Rep. Lindsay Powell, Rep. Dan Frankel, Rep. Robert F. Matzie, Rep. Jim Haddock
To: All House members
Subject: Protecting Workers from Captive Audience Meetings
 
 
Freedom of speech is an essential constitutional right. Employers should not fire or threaten employees who decline to attend a meeting that involves the employer expressing their views on political or religious matters. Pennsylvania workers should be able to choose to perform their job function over being mandated to listen to their employer’s speech on political or religious issues.
 
We will introduce legislation preventing employers from forcing employees to attend meetings that involve the employer discussing their views on political or religious matters. Under our bill, workers cannot be forced to attend these coercive meetings against their will. Our bill would protect workers from threat or actual discipline or termination from declining to go to a captive audience meeting. This bill would also protect employees from being mandated to listen to speech or view electronic, written or other communications on these issues. There would be exemptions for workers who work for a religious or political organization.
 
Several states have already enacted protections for workers from captive audience meetings, including New Jersey, New York, Minnesota, and Connecticut. Please join us in this effort to protect workers by co-sponsoring this important legislation.
 




Introduced as HB2540


Memo Updated: July 1, 2024 09:19 AM