Posts tagged Congressional Review Act
Opinion: Congress should reject the Democrats’ workplace micromanagement bill
May 14, 2024 // On May 2, Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) rolled out the Warehouse Worker Protection Act with Teamsters President Sean O’Brien, legislation that enacts a host of new government mandates on workplaces. Like the failed “Protecting the Right to Organize Act,” its end goal is to force more American workers into unions. The bill targets companies that use so-called “quotas,” framing attempts by employers to evaluate employee performance as inherently anti-worker. Despite the scary narratives progressives peddle, tracking employee performance is a common business practice, and employers use these metrics to ensure employees are operating safely and efficiently.
Biden’s veto of joint employer rule CRA a blow to small businesses
May 5, 2024 // Those franchisor corporations will not want to be on the hook for potential violations. They’ll either limit how they franchise and/or assert more control over their franchisees. Either way the entrepreneurs that ran them will lose out. A court blocked the rule from taking effect in March, saying that the NLRB had exceeded its authority. The board is expected to appeal the ruling.
Opinion: Your freelance job is in jeopardy (Radio)
April 18, 2024 // The DOL issued a rule creating a very strict and confusing definition of a 1099 worker which will certainly have a chilling effect on the entrepreneurial environment and the opportunities available to freelancers. A similar bill was passed in California (AB5) and it devastated small businesses and freelancers. Pacific Legal Foundation is now representing Kim and other plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the DOL. I want to thank Congressman Tom Kean Jr. for sponsoring action on behalf of the New Jersey delegation to push back against this intrusive and egregious assault on independent contractors.
OPINION Congress must block Biden’s destructive labor policy
April 16, 2024 // .A California-based tutoring company provides one anecdotal example of the consequences. The company has already let go independent workers in the Golden State and—in anticipation of the nationwide DOL rule—has announced terminations in Massachusetts and New Jersey. It’s the proverbial canary in the coal mine. If Congress doesn’t act, the DOL’s rule risks replicating California’s dysfunction on a national scale. One estimate predicts the independent workers impacted by this rule could face more than $30 billion in lost income. That tracks with a recent Mercatus Center study on the impact of AB 5 in California. It found that after the law was implemented, self-employment decreased by more than 10 percent on average for affected occupations. Overall employment decreased by more than four percent.
Biden claims to stand for women, but his new regulation will kill jobs that women want
March 30, 2024 // Patrice Onwuka, director of the Center for Economic Opportunity at the Independent Women’s Forum, is extremely concerned about how Biden’s rule will affect women. Jennifer Oliver O’Connell, a visiting fellow at the Independent Women's Forum, is a small business owner and independent contractor who learned firsthand about how government intrusion into this realm is harmful.
Commentary: ATR Applauds House Education & Workforce Committee for Defending Independent Contractors
March 22, 2024 // “Independent contractors want to be their own boss. But Biden and the Democrats want to force them to HAVE a boss,” said Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform. Americans for Tax Reform applauds the House Education & Workforce Committee majority for passing Congressman Kiley’s resolution to nullify the Biden DOL’s harmful reclassification of independent contractors.
IWF Signs Independent Contracting Coalition Letter
March 18, 2024 //
Commentary: Biden pursues organized labor’s agenda through regulation
March 14, 2024 // The OSHA “walkaround” rule flies in the face of a regulation that stipulates that people who accompany an OSHA inspector must be employed by the company under inspection. Under the proposed rule, OSHA representatives would have to simply state that a union official was “reasonably necessary” to the inspection to bring that individual to the site. The walk-around rule presents an opportunity for union organizers to collect information or otherwise infiltrate nonunion workplaces, a clear attempt by OSHA to give unions a leg up in organizing drives. Another example is the Securities and Exchange Commission’s universal proxy rule, which forces companies to include management and dissident shareholder nominees on a single proxy card in contested elections. The rule enabled a coalition of our nation’s largest and most militant unions to extract new concessions from Starbucks by threatening to mount a hostile takeover attempt of the coffee company’s board. Unions will continue to exploit the universal proxy rule to bring other publicly traded companies to the table with threats of a hostile takeover.
30+ Policy Groups Send Coalition Letter to Congress with Concerns on Independent Contractor Rule
March 11, 2024 // As a Congressional Review Act is being considered to rescind the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Independent Contractor rule, 31 policy organizations sent a coalition letter to the U.S. Congress last week raising concerns with how the new rule would have a disastrous impact on entrepreneurs.
Over 30 Leading Policy Groups Send Coalition Letter to Congress Raising Concerns with Department of Labor’s Independent Contractor Rule and Its Crushing Impact on Independent Workers
March 11, 2024 // Vincent Vernuccio, president of Institute for the American Worker, said, “Instead of empowering workers to make their own decisions to earn a living in the best way to support their families, many policymakers in Congress and the White House want to stifle worker freedom and flexibility. The vague and authoritarian DOL rule will hold back growth, destroy jobs, and harm the very workers it purports to help.”