Modern Worker Empowerment Act

Bill: 116-s-2973
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2019-12-04
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Labor standards
Latest action: action_date: 2019-12-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-12-04
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Modern Worker Empowerment Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires the use of common law rules in defining &quot;employee&quot; under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.</p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2973 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES December 4, 2019 Mr. Scott of South Carolina (for himself and Mrs. Blackburn ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions A BILL To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to harmonize the definition of employee with the common law.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Modern Worker Empowerment Act . 2. Amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to harmonize the definition of employee (a) Definition of employee Section 3(e)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 ( 29 U.S.C. 203(e)(1) ) is amended by inserting before the period the following: , as determined under the usual common law rules (as applied for purposes of section 3121(d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986) . (b) Definition of employ Section 3(g) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 ( 29 U.S.C. 203(g) ) is amended by inserting an employee after permit .