On July 20, a bipartisan group of legislators introduced a bill in the U.S. House to allow businesses to continue classifying their gig workers as independent contractors, while providing the gig workers with some legal protections.
Reps. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, Michelle Steel, R-Calif., and Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., proposed the bill, which would maintain flexibility of independent work and guarantee certain workplace protections for gig workers. The relationship between the worker and employer would be defined through a worker flexibility agreement and voluntarily agreed to before work begins.
