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House Education and Labor Committee approves Modern Worker Empowerment Act after partisan debate
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The House Education and Labor Committee on Tuesday voted 19–16 to report HR 1319, the Modern Worker Empowerment Act, which narrows federal tests used to classify workers as employees or independent contractors.
The House Education and Labor Committee on Tuesday voted to report HR 1319, the Modern Worker Empowerment Act, to the full House after a prolonged markup that included multiple amendments and recorded votes. The committee approved the bill as amended by a recorded vote of 19 yeas to 16 nays.
The Modern Worker Empowerment Act would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act and the National Labor Relations Act to clarify the standard for determining whether an individual is an employee or an independent contractor. Representative Kiley of California, the bill’s lead sponsor, described the measure as restoring “the common law, common sense, intuitive standard” and said it would give “workers more…
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