H.R.1319 Passed Committee Today

I find it odd that the Education and Workforce committee is passing legislation AFTER a recess is declared, and while all this Epstein stuff is getting massive headlines.

What is HR1319 you ask?

It changes the Fair Labor and Standards Act of 1938 in part to change the definitions of Employee and Independent Contractors. Essentially it will allow employers to reclassify any employee who basically has any agency over their own work to an independent contractor. If you are allowed to make decisions independently at your job, you could potentially be considered an independent contractor. That would be most employees in the country.

If you try to look the bill up on Google, the first result you will get is from the 117th Congress HR1319, which was the American Rescue Plan from 2021. Classic redirection.

For anyone who doesn’t know the difference between an employee and an independent contractor, they are massive.
You don’t have really any labor rights as an independent contractor.
No benefits, no overtime, no job protections, your employer doesn’t have to match your social security or tax withholdings, no minimum wage, and so many other things that employees have fought hard for decades to get.

Again, this is passing committee when no other congressional activities are going on, during the cover of the Epstein scandal.

Here’s the Committee bragging about passing it:

https://edworkforce.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=412668

Here’s the text of the bill:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1319/text

While you’re on the phone with your reps to demand the Epstein files release, tell them to scrap this abhorrent infringement on your worker’s rights.