Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
Congressional Research Service
Official summary
Version 00 · Introduced in House · Oct 26, 1995
Unremunerated Work Act - Directs the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics to: (1) conduct, periodically, time use surveys of unremunerated work performed in the United States (including household, agricultural, and volunteer work and work related to child care and other care services, food production, and family businesses); (2) calculate the monetary value of such unremunerated work, separately for men and women, and include such value in statistics used to determine the gross national product; and (3) report to the Congress on the methods to be used to conduct such surveys and make such calculations.
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