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Makes broad changes to federal labor law, worker classification rules, employee privacy and union-election procedures, and certain criminal statutes. It requires secret-ballot elections for union representation, bars people without lawful immigration status from voting in some union processes and being treated as employees in certain petition contexts, restricts how employers and unions may use employee contact data and union dues, tightens the test for independent-contractor status and narrows joint‑employer liability, prohibits collective-bargaining provisions that require or promote DEI programs (except where required by law), adds definitions for tribal lands, and revises federal criminal law on obstruction of commerce while exempting limited peaceful picketing from federal prosecution.
These changes touch many statutes (including the National Labor Relations Act, Fair Labor Standards Act, Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act, and Title 18) and would alter how employers, workers, unions, and government agencies handle organizing, representation, classification, privacy, bargaining, and certain protest-related criminal enforcement.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Introduced October 8, 2025 by Tim Scott · Last progress 4 months ago
Employee Rights Act