Protect the Gig Economy Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-100
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Biggs, Andy [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2025-01-03
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability

Self-employed
Latest action: action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-01-03
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Protect the Gig Economy Act of 2025</strong></p><p>This bill expands the list of preliminary requirements that must be satisfied before a class action lawsuit may be brought in federal court.</p><p>Specifically, before a party may bring a class action lawsuit in federal court, the court must first determine that a new, fifth requirement has been met:  that the claim does not allege misclassification of employees as independent contractors.</p>

tv_txt: I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 100 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 3, 2025 Mr. Biggs of Arizona 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 2025 . 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. .