Since the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) adopted its extreme joint employer scheme two years ago, local businesses across the country have been calling on Congress to act. As Chairwoman Foxx recently said, “their concerns haven’t gone unanswered. Clearing up the confusion and uncertainty surrounding the joint employer issue has long been a priority for this committee.” That’s why, today, the committee will mark up the Save Local Business Act (H.R. 3441), bringing us one step closer to delivering the joint employer clarity these hardworking men and women desperately need:
• “[The Save Local Business Act] is just one example of how policy changes that reduce regulation and unnecessary red tape can spark optimism within the small business community.” — Matthew Lewis, Sport Clips, Raleigh, NC
• “When you’ve worked your way up from the bottom like I have, you don’t like to see anyone knock you back down. It's time we clear up the confusion of joint employer for local business owners and all of those depending on us, and I am confident that the Save Local Business Act does just that.” — Tamra Kennedy, Taco John’s, Roseville, MN Read more »
The Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), today approved the Save Local Business Act (H.R. 3441). The bill clarifies what constitutes a “joint employer” to provide certainty and stability for workers and job creators. Read more »
Small businesses work hard to create local jobs and opportunities, and they invest directly into their communities. But because of an extreme and unworkable joint employer rule, many small business owners are now mired in a confusing legal landscape they never planned for. Tamra Kennedy, a local restaurant owner, recently shared her story on how the new joint employer scheme puts her business at risk. Watch:
We should be making it easier, not harder, for local business owners like Tamra to succeed. The Save Local Business Act restores the commonsense understanding of what it means to be an employer, and provides small businesses with the joint employer relief they need. Read more »
On Wednesday, October 4 at 10:00 a.m., the Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), will mark up the Save Local Business Act (H.R. 3441). Read more »
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, issued the following joint statement after the Senate confirmed William Emanuel to fill the remaining vacant seat on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), giving the board its first Republican majority in nearly a decade. Read more »
WASHINGTON— Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, issued the following statement on the passage of H.R. 3354, the Make America Secure and Prosperous Appropriations Act, 2018:
“One of the central roles of Congress is to subject the vast federal bureaucracy to congressional oversight, and decide which programs are effective and which are wasteful.
“Through the appropriations process, the House advanced several policy priorities of the Committee on Education and the Workforce that open doors for students and empower workers, and I am pleased these priorities had the attention of the whole House with this bill.”
Background: H.R. 3354, the Make America Secure and Prosperous Appropriations Act, 2018 advanced several Education and Workforce Committee priorities:
•Protecting funding for committee priorities such as career and technical education programs.
•Preserving proper implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act to administer Student Support and Academic Enrichment grants from states to school districts by formula.
•Protecting retirement savers by prohibiting the Department of Labor from enforcing the Obama administration’s final fiduciary rule.
•Prohibiting funds to implement or enforce any standard for joint-employer status articulated in the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB)’s Regional Director Decision and Direction of Election in BFI, Case 32-RC-109684 (Aug. 16, 2013).
•Prohibiting funds to implement the NLRB’s bargaining unit determinations (“micro unions”) articulated in the Specialty Healthcare majority opinion.
In addition, the House approved an amendment offered by Rep. Walberg (R-MI), chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, to prohibit funds to implement the NLRB final rule governing representation-case procedures, or “ambush elections,” under the National Labor Relations Act.
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To most Americans, the question over who their employer is seems to be an obvious answer. It’s the person who hired them, the one who signs their paycheck. Read more »
