DeLauro Applauds U.S. Department of Labor Decision to Rescind Joint Employer Rule

Statement

House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) issued the following statement on the U.S. Department of Labor's announcement that, effective September 28, 2021, it will rescind the joint employer rule and maintain workers' rights to the minimum wage and overtime compensation protections of the Fair Labor Standards Act:

"Countless workers are in jobs that do not pay them enough to live on, putting in long hours and working for an honest day's pay during a pandemic only to have their employers cheat them out of their hard-earned wages. Two years ago, the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee held a hearing on combatting wage theft, which the Economic Policy Institute estimates amounts to as much as $50 billion stolen from workers' paychecks every year. By creating this joint employer rule, the previous administration exacerbated the wage theft problem with a poorly drafted end-run around worker wage theft protections included in the Fair Labor Standards Act.

"By rescinding the Trump administration's joint employer rule, the Biden administration is wisely reversing course. As we work to recover and rebuild from the spread of COVID-19, this is a sweeping victory for workers across the country."

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