Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) announced her intention to subpoena the acting secretary of labor if the Department of Labor (DOL) doesn’t provide the information requested by the committee she chairs.
Foxx announced in an Aug. 8 press release from the Committee on Workforce and Education that the committee would subpoena DOL Acting Secretary Julie Su due to her failure to provide responses on what the chairwoman termed as worker misclassification.
The inquiry is related to the department’s new rule issued in February of this year, which redefined those who can be classified as independent contractors.
According to the DOL, the new rule was put in place to protect workers who could be misclassified as independent contractors and would be denied protections under the Fair Labor Standards Act….