Save Local Business Act

Subjects: Labor and Employment, Labor standards, Labor-management relations, Wages and earnings

Summary:  <p><b>Save Local Business</b> <strong><strong>Act</strong></strong></p> <p>This bill provides that a person may be considered a joint employer in relation to an employee under federal labor law only if such person directly, actually, and immediately (and not in a limited and routine manner) exercises significant control over the essential terms and conditions of employment. Such control may by demonstrated by hiring and discharging employees, determining individual employee rates of pay and benefits, day-to-day supervision of employees, assigning individual work schedules, positions, and tasks, and administering employee discipline.</p>

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2826 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2826

  To clarify the treatment of 2 or more employers as joint employers 
under the National Labor Relations Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act 
                                of 1938.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 25, 2023

  Mr. Comer (for himself, Ms. Foxx, Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
Carter of Georgia, Mrs. Miller of Illinois, Mr. Donalds, Mr. Johnson of 
Ohio, Ms. Letlow, Mr. LaTurner, Mr. Ellzey, Mr. Walberg, Mr. Moolenaar, 
Ms. Stefanik, Mr. Allen, Mr. Fulcher, Mr. Babin, Mr. Perry, Mr. Duncan, 
 Mr. Bost, Mr. Langworthy, Ms. Mace, Mr. Owens, Mr. Collins, Mr. Weber 
 of Texas, Mr. Edwards, Mrs. Steel, Ms. Lee of Florida, Mr. Mann, Mr. 
   Timmons, Mr. Smucker, Mrs. Boebert, Mrs. Cammack, Mr. Higgins of 
Louisiana, Ms. Greene of Georgia, Mrs. Miller-Meeks, Mr. Crawford, Mr. 
Hern, Mr. Burchett, Mr. Rose, Mr. Guthrie, Mr. Fitzgerald, Mr. Kustoff, 
  Mr. Barr, Mr. Joyce of Ohio, Ms. Tenney, Mr. Norman, Mr. Ezell, Mr. 
 Good of Virginia, Mr. Kelly of Mississippi, Mr. Dunn of Florida, Mr. 
 Banks, Mr. C. Scott Franklin of Florida, Mr. Burlison, Mr. Moran, Mr. 
 Crenshaw, Mrs. Hinson, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Mr. Austin Scott 
  of Georgia, Mr. Burgess, Mr. Gooden of Texas, Mrs. Houchin, and Mr. 
    Guest) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To clarify the treatment of 2 or more employers as joint employers 
under the National Labor Relations Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act 
                                of 1938.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Save Local Business Act''.

SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION OF JOINT EMPLOYMENT.

    (a) National Labor Relations Act.--Section 2(2) of the National 
Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 152(2)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``The term `employer''' and inserting ``(A) 
        The term `employer'''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(B) An employer may be considered a joint employer of the 
employees of another employer only if each employer directly, actually, 
and immediately, exercises significant control over the essential terms 
and conditions of employment of the employees of the other employer, 
such as hiring such employees, discharging such employees, determining 
the rate of pay and benefits of such employees, supervising such 
employees on a day-to-day basis, assigning such employees a work 
schedule, position, or task, or disciplining such employees.''.
    (b) Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.--Section 3(d) of the Fair 
Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 203(d)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ```Employer' includes'' and inserting ``(1) 
        `Employer' includes''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(2) An employer may be considered a joint employer of the 
employees of another employer for purposes of this Act only if each 
employer meets the criteria set forth in section 2(2)(B) of the 
National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 152(2)(B)) except that, for 
purposes of determining joint-employer status under this Act, the terms 
`employee' and `employer' referenced in such section shall have the 
meanings given such terms in this section.''.
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