How to rip off workers

Want to be richer? Rip off your workers! See how billionaire owned corporations do it.

• GOP says bosses can declare more workers ‘independent contractors’
• Catering to the capitalist class, the right-wing Republican majority on the House Education and the Workforce Committee voted to let bosses classify more workers as “independent contractors” unable to unionize and ineligible for jobless benefits and workers comp.
• After the panel’s party-line votes on July 23, the GOP majority on the Senate committee dealing with workers issues is moving in that direction, too. And while they were at it, the House Republicans decided to let “joint employers” off the hook, and ease restrictions on child labor. - People's World

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How to rip off workers

Makes it easier for employers to classify workers as independent contractors and exclude them from labor protections

• The key bill, the so-called Modern Worker Empowerment Act, “makes it easier for employers to classify workers as independent contractors and exclude them from labor protections,” Calemine wrote to lawmakers.
• The other bill would let “independent contractors” have “portability” of benefits from job to job—if employers provide benefits such as pensions and health care. Many non-union employers don’t.
• Redefining “employee” more narrowly and “independent contractors” more broadly, under both labor law and the minimum wage-overtime law, “is a giveaway for anti-worker employers who do not want to provide workplace protections and benefits employees are guaranteed by law,” Calemine wrote.
• Doing that would “make it easier to shirk employer mandates by pretending employees are in fact independent contractors,” Calemine said. One of those mandates under current law is that “employees”–but not contractors–have the right to organize. - People's World

Take Away: See how you too can rip off workers.

Deepak
DemLabs

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