While Chair of Senate Labor Committee, Murray secured confirmation of historic pro-worker majority to National Labor Relations Board
As Chair of the Senate Appropriations Labor Subcommittee, Senator Murray secured a historic funding boost for the National Labor Relations Board in Fiscal Year 2023
Murray has long pushed to reinstate joint-employer standard to ensure workers can bargain with employers for better pay, benefits, and working conditions
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray, former chair and senior member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), issued the following statement after the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued its Final Rule rescinding the 2020 rule and aligning the new standard with the longstanding joint-employer standard to ensure that all corporations with control over workers’ health, safety, hours, pay, and other working conditions are at the bargaining table with workers.
“This rule is about empowering workers so they can bring their employers to the table to bargain for higher wages and better working conditions—so it’s great to see the NLRB finalize this standard and provide guidance to make sure corporations don’t try to dodge this important responsibility. This is the difference that having a pro-worker majority on the NLRB makes—and that’s why I made confirming members to the Board a top priority when I chaired the Senate Labor Committee. There has been a real and encouraging surge in labor organizing over the past year, and this rule will help hold employers accountable, so that workers can come together and bargain meaningfully for better wages, safer workplaces, and the benefits they deserve.”
In December, Senator Murray led 21 of her colleagues in a letter in support of the Biden Administration’s proposed rule to reinstate the joint-employer standard—which was finalized today—and she fought efforts to weaken the historic joint-employer standard under the previous administration at every step of the way. She opposed the Trump administration’s unlawful attempt to overturn the historic standard and led her colleagues in opposing its rule eroding the standard, which was finalized in 2020.
Under the new Standard for Determining Joint-Employer Status under the National Labor Relations Act, an entity may be considered a joint employer of a group of employees if each entity has an employment relationship with the employees and they share or codetermine one or more of the employees’ essential terms and conditions of employment, which are defined as: (1) wages, benefits, and other compensation; (2) hours of work and scheduling; (3) the assignment of duties to be performed; (4) the supervision of the performance of duties; (5) work rules and directions governing the manner, means, and methods of the performance of duties and the grounds for discipline; (6) the tenure of employment, including hiring and discharge; and (7) working conditions related to the safety and health of employees.
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