GOP Panel Makes Case Against Gig Worker Rule Ahead of Su Hearing

House Republicans took aim at the Biden administration’s plans to revise worker classification rules just a day before the nominee for labor secretary is set to testify in the Senate.

The Workforce Protections subcommittee hearing Wednesday on independent contractor status focused in particular on California’s Assembly Bill 5 which codified the state’s “ABC” worker classification test that made it more difficult to classify gig workers as contractors. Julie Su, the state’s labor chief when the law first passed and the current nominee to head the US Department of Labor, is expected to be grilled Thursday on her role in implementing ...