{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://bobbyscott.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/scott-leads-members-support-proposed-rule-protect-workers-rights", "Scott Leads Members in Support of Proposed Rule to Protect Workers\u2019 Rights", "2022-12-08", "2022", "2022-12", "Democrat", "House", "VA", "Robert C. \"Bobby\" Scott", "S000185", "bobbyscott.house.gov", "bobbyscott", "https://bobbyscott.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "As originally released by the Committee on Education & Labor\n\nWASHINGTON, DC \u2013 Today, House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Robert C. \u201cBobby\u201d Scott (VA-03) led a letter with 52 House Democrats to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in support of its proposed joint employer rule. The proposed rule would help ensure that workers\u2014who are hired through subcontractors, temporary staffing agencies, and other intermediaries\u2014can hold all the entities that control their working conditions accountable for their right to bargain collectively for higher pay, better benefits, and safer workplaces.\n\nSpecifically, the proposed rule would rescind the Trump Administration\u2019s 2020 joint employer rule that weakened workers\u2019 ability to hold their employers accountable by narrowing the joint employer standard to only cover entities that directly exercise control over workers\u2019 terms of employment.\n\n\u201cWe applaud the proposed rule for advancing the purposes of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by preventing employers from contracting out work to evade their bargaining obligations,\u201d the Members wrote.\n\n\u201cWhen workers organize unions, the NLRA guarantees them the right to collectively bargain for better wages and working conditions without fear of retaliation. Where multiple entities control workers\u2019 terms and conditions of employment, this right is rendered futile whenever workers are unable to bargain with all entities that control those wages and working conditions. The proposed rule is therefore necessary for holding entities accountable even if they reserve control, or exercise control indirectly, over employees\u2019 working conditions.\u201d\n\nUnder its traditional joint employer standard, the NLRB held that an entity could be considered an employer even if it indirectly controlled the terms of a worker\u2019s employment. Unfortunately, the NLRB\u2019s departure from this tradition has allowed corporations to use intermediaries\u2014such as subcontractors and temporary staffing agencies\u2014to evade their obligations to workers.\n\nThe letter was signed by Chairman Scott (VA-03) and Representatives Mark DeSaulnier (CA-11), Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC-At-Large), Mark Pocan (WI-02), Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18), Andre\u0301 Carson (IN-07), Stephen F. Lynch (MA-08), Andy Levin (MI-09), Susan Wild (PA-07), Rau\u0301l M. Grijalva (AZ-03), Frank J. Mrvan (IN-01), Steven Horsford (NV-04), Linda T. Sa\u0301nchez (CA-38), Debbie Dingell (MI-12), Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), Rashida Tlaib (MI-13), Dina Titus (NV-01), Donald Norcross (NJ-01), Joe Courtney (CT-02), Judy Chu (CA-27), Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Danny K. Davis (IL-07), Adam Smith (WA-09), Jerrold Nadler (NY-10), Alma S. Adams (NC-12), Haley Stevens (MI-11), Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Jimmy Gomez (CA-34), Paul D. Tonko (NY-20), Katie Porter (CA-45), Mondaire Jones (NY-17), Frederica S. Wilson (FL-24), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), Jahana Hayes (CT-05), Gwen Moore (WI-04), James P. McGovern (MA-02), Nanette Diaz Barraga\u0301n (CA-44), Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), Jamaal Bowman (NY-16), Mark Takano (CA-41), Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02), Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), Jesus G. \u201cChuy\u201d Garcia (IL-04), Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan (NMI-At-Large), Joaquin Castro (TX-20), Steve Cohen (TN-09), Teresa Leger Fernandez (NM-03), Grace Meng (NY-06), Bill Pascrell, Jr. (NJ-09), Dwight Evans (PA-03), Donald M. Payne, Jr. (NJ-10), and Susie Lee (NV-03).\n\nTo read the full letter, click here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:32:05Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://bobbyscott.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/scott-leads-members-support-proposed-rule-protect-workers-rights"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.85646309889853, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}