Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Respect Graduate Student Workers Act”.
Respect Graduate Student Workers Act
A BILL
To ensure full labor protections for graduate student workers, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Sense of Congress
It is the sense of Congress that, pursuant to the definition of “employee” in section 2 of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 152)—
graduate student workers at colleges and universities are employees and should be granted every right and responsibility conferred to them under such Act; and
graduate student workers should not be excluded from the definition of “employee” on the basis of an educational relationship with an employer.
Sec. 3 Prohibition on certain rulemaking
The National Labor Relations Board shall not finalize or take any action to implement, administer, or enforce the proposed rule entitled “Jurisdiction-Nonemployee Status of University and College Students Working in Connection With Their Studies”, as published in the Federal Register on September 23, 2019 (84 Fed. Reg. 49691), or promulgate, implement, administer, or enforce any similar rule.