House Republicans Take Up Gig Worker Issues Ahead of Su Hearing

April 12, 2023, 10:00 AM UTC

House Republicans are holding a hearing on independent contractors and the state of California’s approach to protecting their workplace rights in the wake of increased opposition to Julie Su’s nomination to be US Secretary of Labor.

The House Workforce Protections subcommittee will examine California’s Assembly Bill 5 on April 19, just a day before Su’s scheduled nomination hearing in the Senate. Su—the state’s former labor secretary—supported the measure, which codified the state’s “ABC” worker classification test that made it more difficult to classify gig workers as contractors.

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