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PatrickMarrisFirstEssay 3 - 01 Mar 2018 - Main.PatrickMarris
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Trump-Era Labor Abuse: The Newest Addition to the Dollar MenuŽ
-- By PatrickMarris - 28 Feb 2018 | |
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< | On November 7, 2017, in an anti-labor move surprising to exactly no one, House Republicans - along with eight Democrats - passed a bill that could wrest from low-wage workers a mechanism through which such workers can protect their already minuscule bundle of rights. If enacted, the bill, laughably named the "Save Local Business Act," would limit the application of the term "joint employer" to only those employers who "directly, actually, and immediately, and not in a limited and routine manner, exercise[] significant control over the essential terms and conditions of employment." Such essential terms and conditions include "hiring employees, discharging employees, determining individual employee rates of pay and benefits, day-to-day supervision of employees, assigning individual work schedules, positions, and tasks, or administering employee discipline." Without a strong joint employer standard, businesses are far more easily able to create corporate structures that allow avoidance of worker-friendly labor laws. The bill would codify a standard that drastically weakens the joint employer standard. | >
> | On November 7, 2017, in an anti-labor move surprising to exactly no one, House Republicans - along with eight Democrats - passed a bill that could wrest from low-wage workers a mechanism through which such workers can protect their already minuscule bundle of rights. If enacted, the bill, laughably named the "Save Local Business Act," would limit the application of the term "joint employer" to only those employers who "directly, actually, and immediately, and not in a limited and routine manner, exercise[] significant control over the essential terms and conditions of employment." Such essential terms and conditions include "hiring employees, discharging employees, determining individual employee rates of pay and benefits, day-to-day supervision of employees, assigning individual work schedules, positions, and tasks, or administering employee discipline." Without a strong, inclusive joint employer standard, businesses are far more easily able to create corporate structures that allow avoidance of worker-friendly labor laws. The bill would codify a standard that drastically weakens the joint employer standard. | | | The NLRB's Standard |
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