Respect Graduate Student Workers Act

Bill: 116-s-3219
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2020-01-21
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Higher education

Labor-management relations

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

Temporary and part-time employment
Latest action: action_date: 2020-01-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-01-21
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Respect Graduate Student Workers Act</b><br> <br> This bill prohibits the National Labor Relations Board from promulgating or enforcing any 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: II 116th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3219 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 21, 2020 Mr. Sanders introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions 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 section 2 of the National Labor Relations Act ( 29 U.S.C. 152 )— (1) graduate student workers at colleges and universities are employees and should be granted every right and responsibility conferred to them under such Act; and (2) 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 shall not finalize or take any action to implement, administer, or enforce the proposed rule entitled Jurisdiction-Nonemployee Status of University and College Students Working in Connection With Their Studies , as published in the Federal Register on September 23, 2019 (84 Fed. Reg. 49691), or promulgate, implement, administer, or enforce any similar rule.