To ensure that the provision of portable benefits to an individual is not considered in determining whether such individual is an employee of a person.

This bill says that if a company gives a worker “portable benefits,” that fact cannot be used to decide whether the worker is an employee under any federal law. “Portable benefits” are work-related benefits you can keep even if you stop working for that particular company and move to other work. The goal is to let companies offer these benefits without it counting against them in worker-classification decisions.

Key points:

• Who is affected: Companies and people who work for them, including independent contractors and gig workers.
• What changes: Offering portable, take-with-you benefits cannot be used as evidence that someone is an employee under federal law.
• What “portable benefits” means: Work-related benefits that a person can keep even if they stop working for that company.