Modern Worker Empowerment Act

Bill: 117-s-526
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2021-03-02
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Labor standards
Latest action: action_date: 2021-03-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-03-02
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Modern Worker Empowerment Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires the use of common law rules for defining an <i>employee</i> under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Generally, an individual is an employee under common law rules when an employer controls what work will be done and how it will be done, among other factors.</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 526 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 2 (legislative day, March 1), 2021 Mr. Scott of South Carolina (for himself, Mrs. Blackburn , Mr. Braun , and Mr. Cramer ) 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 . (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 .