Members of the Home Training and the Workforce Committee voted this week to advance their model of a invoice that seeks to invalidate the unbiased contractor classification and reporting guidelines lately adopted by the Biden Labor Division.

As detailed on Congress.gov, the Republican-controlled committee voted 21 to 13 to advance Home Joint Decision 116 to the total Home. An identical invoice stays in committee within the Senate, congressional data present.

Based on the Home and Senate payments’ backers, the laws is meant completely invalidate the rulemaking beneath chapter 8 of title 5 of america Code, which grants Congress the authority to evaluation and probably block company rulemaking.

Supporting lawmakers say the foundations are arbitrary and capricious beneath the Administrative Process Act and that in addition they violate the Regulatory Flexibility Act.

Comparable arguments have additionally been raised in litigation filed by a wide range of business teams representing trucking firms, retailers, chambers of commerce and different events — together with commerce teams within the monetary providers business, the place advisors generally work as unbiased contractors.