On Wednesday, I taped this episode of the Labor Relations Radio podcast with host Peter List. The episode dropped yesterday.
During our hourlong conversation, Peter and I hit on a bunch of topics:
The confirmation of U.S. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, the pending confirmation of Keith Sonderling as Deputy U.S. Labor Secretary (which happened after we finished taping Wednesday) and what will hopefully come next in terms of White House policy on independent contractors.
Introduction of the Modern Worker Empowerment Act as well as the Protecting the Right to Organize Act in Congress, highlighting a huge difference between how Republicans and Democrats want to move forward on the 80/20 issue of protecting or dismantling everyone’s freedom to be self-employed.
Plans at the state level in Minnesota to try and copy a sectoral-bargaining strategy that the freelance-busting brigade has been implementing in Massachusetts and California, along with what happened behind-the-scenes with a recent Minnesota task force about worker classification.
A bill that was just introduced in Congress to try and help independent contractors access more affordable health-insurance plans without the government being able to accuse our clients of misclassifying us as employees.
After the Show…
If you listen to this episode and then want to help protect everyone’s freedom to be our own bosses, a key thing you can do right now is call your member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Ask him or her to support the Modern Worker Empowerment Act, also known as H.R. 1319.
H.R. 1319 is Congressman Kevin Kiley’s bill that would place important regulatory guardrails around everyone’s freedom to be an independent contractor, so future administrations would have a much harder time trying to take that freedom away.
Click here if you don’t know who you representative is. Type in your ZIP Code, and make sure they learn your name as a concerned voter on this issue.
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