The House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, chaired by Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., plans to hold a hearing April 19 on the Labor Department's independent contractor rule, which Labor is expected to finalize in May.
The hearing is titled "Examining Biden's War on Independent Contractors."
"The last thing our economy needs right now is overreaching federal policies that discourage work and attack workers," Kiley said in a statement.
"Yet DOL's independent contractor rule and the PRO Act, like [Assembly Bill] 5 in California, do just that — depriving millions of Americans of the opportunity to work independently and start their own business," Kiley continued. "The Biden administration is all in on these failed policies, even nominating the architect of the disastrous AB 5 law, Julie Su," to head Labor.
The Financial Services Institute, a trade group for independent financial advisors, has maintained that Labor should withdraw its independent contractor rule.
Labor's regulatory flexibility agenda states that the department plans to issue a final independent contractor rule in May. David Bellaire, FSI's general counsel, told ThinkAdvisor previously that Labor's deadline is unrealistic.
President Joe Biden officially sent Su's nomination as the new labor secretary to the Senate in mid-March.
