Modern Worker Empowerment Act

United States117th CongressS-526Senate
Updated: Mar 2, 2021

Summary

Modern Worker Empowerment Act This bill requires the use of common law rules for defining an employee under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Generally, an individual is an employee under common law rules when an employer controls what work will be done and how it will be done, among other factors.

Bill texts

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Timeline

Latest companion bill action

HR-1523: Modern Worker Empowerment Act

Introduced in House

  1. Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

    Senate

  2. Introduced in Senate

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