PRO Act, Fed Version of California 'Gig Worker' Law, Passes House
March 10, 2021 11:07 PMLegal - By LOS ANGELES—The PRO Act, federal legislation that takes the provisions of California’s AB5 law restricting how companies may hire freelance workers and makes them national, took a major step toward becoming law Tuesday when the United States House passed the bill on a mostly party-line vote, 225-206. Five Republicans voted in favor of the bill, whose full name is Protecting the Right to Organize Act, along with all 220 House Democrats. Identical to AB5, the PRO Act includes the so-called “ABC Test” used to determine which workers can be deemed indepe...