The group circulated an email on Wednesday expressing concern that Ms. (The law was later scaled back through a ballot measure.) The Flex Association, a trade group representing several prominent gig economy companies, has called attention to her support for a California measure that would have effectively classified gig workers as employees, requiring companies like Uber and DoorDash to pay them a minimum wage and overtime and to contribute to unemployment insurance. “You need in terms of a bully pulpit a secretary of labor who makes clear that she is going to stand with working families, and she is prepared to use the powers of the office to take on corporate interests,” Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent who heads the labor committee, said in an interview on Wednesday. Su, who has strong backing from labor unions, would be a strong worker advocate and enforcer of provisions like the minimum wage, safety regulations and restrictions on child labor, as well as the right to join unions. She said she would seek employers’ advice on improving worker safety, and described the reverence she gained for small business owners after watching her immigrant parents operate a dry cleaner and a pizza franchise.ĭemocrats argue that Ms. Walsh - whom some Republicans and business groups have held up as pragmatic, and whom Ms. Su largely associated herself with the record of her predecessor, Martin J. In her testimony before the committee on Thursday, Ms. A vote of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions is scheduled for next week.
And once again, there are signs that the administration may fall short, with at least two Democrats and an independent wavering over whether to support Ms.
0 kommentar(er)
