Save Local Business Act
Sponsor: Bradley Byrne (R-AL)
(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on November 1, 2017. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Save Local Business Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the National Labor Relations Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide that a person may be considered a joint employer in relation to an employee only if such person directly, actually, and immediately, and not in a limited and routine manner, exercises significant control over the essential terms and conditions of employment such as hiring employees, discharging employees, determining individual employee rates of pay and benefits, day-to-day supervision of employees, assigning individual work schedules, positions, and tasks, or administering employee discipline.
Labor and Employment Topic assigned by the Congressional Research Service.
Who won, and how much of the country was behind them
The dotted gap is 2.7% of U.S. adults whose member did not vote, voted “present,” or whose seat was vacant.
| Side | Outcome | Votes | Share of U.S. adults |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yea | Won | 242 | 55.5% |
| Nay | Lost | 181 | 41.8% |
| Not represented on this question | No position taken | 0 | 2.7% |