Respect Graduate Student Workers Act

Bill: 116-hr-5104
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2019-11-14
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Employment discrimination and employee rights

Higher education

Labor-management relations

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

Temporary and part-time employment
Latest action: action_date: 2019-11-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-11-14
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Respect Graduate Student Workers Act</b></p> <p>This bill prohibits the National Labor Relations Board from finalizing a specified rule or making a similar rule that excludes student workers at private universities from the definition of <i>employee</i> under federal labor laws. (Under current law, students paid for services provided at universities in connection with such students' studies are considered employees.)</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5104 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 14, 2019 Mr. Pocan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor A BILL To ensure full labor protections for graduate student workers, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Respect Graduate Student Workers Act . 2. Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that, pursuant to the definition of employee in the National Labor Relations Act ( 29 U.S.C. 152 ), graduate student workers at colleges and universities are employees and should be granted every right and responsibility conferred to them under such Act, and graduate student workers should not be excluded from the definition of employee on the basis of an educational relationship with an employer. 3. Prohibition on certain rulemaking The National Labor Relations Board may not finalize the proposed rule entitled Jurisdiction-Nonemployee Status of University and College Students Working in Connection With Their Studies , published September 23, 2019 (84 Fed. Reg. 49691), or make any similar rule.