Protect the Gig Economy Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-76
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Biggs, Andy [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2019-01-03
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability

Self-employed
Latest action: action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-01-03
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Protect the Gig Economy Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill amends Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to expand the preliminary requirements for class certification in a class action lawsuit to include a new requirement that the claim does not allege misclassification of employees as independent contractors.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 76 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 3, 2019 Mr. Biggs introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to protect the gig economy and small businesses that operate in large part through contractor services from the threat of costly class action litigation, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protect the Gig Economy Act of 2019 . 2. Protecting the gig economy from class actions Rule 23(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is amended— (1) in paragraph (3), by striking and at the end; (2) in paragraph (4), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and (3) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following: (5) the claim does not allege the mis­clas­si­fi­ca­tion of employees as independent contractors. .