MARKEY, SANDERS, BLUMENTHAL, MURRAY URGE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR TO REVERSE RULE THAT WOULD WEAKEN WORKER PROTECTIONS AGAINST BIG BUSINESSES

WASHINGTON, June 22 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey issued the following press release:

Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), top Democrat on the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee and on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security, along with HELP Ranking Member Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Patty Murray (D-Wash.), today wrote to Acting Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling, calling on the Department of Labor (DOL) to withdraw its dangerous proposed rule on Joint Employer Status Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act. The proposed Rule wo...