The House Rules Committee noticed a meeting on Monday, January 12, 2026 to develop a rule for next week’s floor consideration of multiple bills from the House Education and Workforce Committee, including the SWACCA-opposed Save Local Business Act (H.R. 4366) to amend both the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to substantially curtail the instances in which a company may be deemed a joint employer in relation to the employees of another entity, like a subcontractor, such that it would almost never be liable for misclassification of the subcontractor’s workers as independent contractors or other serious violations of federal employment laws. SWACCA sent a letter opposing floor consideration of the bill this morning to the House Rules Committee and House leadership.
Lawmakers will also consider the Protecting Prudent Investment of Retirement Savings Act (H.R. 2988) to amend ERISA to rescind the Biden-era, SWACCA-supported Prudence and Loyalty rule, which returned ERISA fiduciaries to a familiar framework for assessing plan investments with similar risk and return characteristics and that allowed plan trustees to consider as a relevant financial factor whether the investment created union work hours that resulted in contributions to the plan. SWACCA learned of the plan to advance these bills before the Rules Committee posted its notice and is already engaged to keep these bills partisan to ensure that they cannot get the 60 votes necessary to pass in the Senate.