An opinion piece published by Republican Rep. Kevin Hern in The Hill highlighted Joe Biden’s anti-business approach which is hurting American families.
Hern points out that Biden’s political appointees at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have proposed an expanded version of “joint employer.”
This policy turns franchisees into subordinates of their franchisors, and thereby negatively impacts many Americans.
Hern explains, “The employees of each location now report to corporate bosses in faraway cities rather than their local faces. The local entrepreneur who took a chance — some with their life savings — to invest into a franchise is reduced to a mid-level manager, reporting upwards to corporate.”
In response, both chambers of Congress passed a repeal of joint employer in a strongly bipartisan fashion.
Despite this bipartisan success, Biden “issued a shameful veto, not once mentioning the impact for small business in the process.”
Rep. Hern says, “It was a slap in the face to the franchise community and the more than 800,000 small businesses operating as a franchise.” Biden could have easily “taken the win and signed the bill,” but decided not to.
Biden’s motivation for rejecting that bill is because “it eases the path to unionization and expands the liability risks to juicy targets. Biden brags about being the ‘most pro union president in history.'”
Rep. Hern says bluntly, “Joint employer is a complete surrender to those union bosses he needs in November. When the rule first came down last October, the AFL-CIO heralded it as an, ‘important win.'”
“Joint employer has proven to hamper economic growth, an area where Biden sorely needs a win. When the same rule was in effect under the Obama administration, it resulted in 376,000 lost jobs,” Hern wrote.
