Providing for Congressional Disapproval Under the Rule Submitted By the National Labor Relations Board Relating to ``Standard for Determining Joint Employer Status''

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Ms. HOYLE of Oregon. Madam Speaker, today I rise in strong opposition to H.J. Res. 98 which would repeal the National Labor Relations Board joint employer standard.

Under President Biden, this rule was issued to protect workers' rights. Unfortunately, House Republicans want to repeal this strong standard. Today, I have heard a lot of misleading claims about this joint employer standard.

Simply put, this issue is about whether or not employers have to come to the bargaining table where the employer controls the means and manner of the workers' employment.

As a member of the Congressional Labor Caucus and someone who has spent 25 years in the private sector putting food on the table for my family, I believe that when workers come to bargain over their wages and working conditions, then those employers who do control the means and manner of workers' employment--and that is a standard by which we determine whether someone is a direct employee or an independent contractor--should be at the bargaining table as required by law.

When workers do better, employers do better, and our country does better.

This is exactly what the Biden administration's joint employer rule does.

What it doesn't do is impact the ability to utilize independent contractors when appropriate, and, as has been mentioned today, no franchisee has ever been categorized as a joint employer. This is more misinformation used to undermine the ability of workers to organize and bargain for better wages, hours, and working conditions.

This strong standard overturns the Trump administration's rule, and it cracks down on corporations that outsource jobs and use independent contractors to walk away from their duties as an employer creating an unlevel playing field and unfair competition for those employers who are willing to provide fair wages, hours, and safe working conditions for their workers as per the letter of the law.

In seeking to overturn the NLRB's new and stronger joint employer standard, House Republicans are working to help bad employers avoid their responsibility to employees and are undermining workers across this country.

Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote against this antiworker resolution.

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