Labor Chief Defends Worker Classification Stance on Capitol Hill

Labor Secretary Marty Walsh doubled down on the Biden administration’s pro-worker agenda on Capitol Hill, reiterating his commitments to addressing worker misclassification and to protecting an employee’s choice to join a union.

The head of the US Department of Labor appeared before the House Education and Labor Committee as the agency is poised to begin the rulemaking process to determine whether and how workers should be classified as employees after a federal judge in Texas reinstated a Trump-era standard in March.

The Biden administration is widely expected to take an approach that will make it harder for workers to be ...