Southeast Michigan Contractors Issue 3 2023 9 REVENGE TOUR The legislation requires employers to submit the names and contact information of all temporary workers to other workers on site. This would allow union salts to collect the names and contact information of fellow employees for recruitment or harassment purposes. Temporary worker employment records would be required to be reported to the state, where supervisors previously working for labor unions would get access to employer and employee information. The bill would also prohibit a temporary worker from being sent to a jobsite where a strike is occurring. Restrictions to hiring replacement workers have already been ruled unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court. The bill would also require the agency to attempt to permanently place laborer in permanent position of the client if client intends to make a permanent hire. The proposed repeal of ABC-inspired legislation called the Fair and Open Competition Act, would allow local units of governments to set prevailing wage rates and force contractors to be party to a Project Labor Agreement in order to do local government work. PLAs often require non-signatory contractors to either adopt union-style training programs or pay into union fringe benefit funds that their own employees wouldn’t qualify for in order to win the construction contracts. Part of the PLA reforms would include requirements for all state contractor laborers to be enrolled in federally-approved apprenticeship programs. Because few non-union trades even have these programs currently available, state highway contracts and municipal infrastructure projects could quickly become union-only. ABC’s trade school in southeast Michigan, SEMCA, would try to create new options to provide DOL-approved training programs for contractors where possible, but the new requirements would create onerous burdens on contractors to take workers out of the field and enroll employees in new formalized training programs. Anti-Business State Legislation At a Glance » Repeal of the Fair and Open Competition Act would force contractors to sign Project Labor Agreements and force many laborers into DOL registered apprenticeship programs that aren’t currently available. » HB 4034 would require significant new reporting requirements and restrictions of temporary workers. » HB 4237 repeals a 2015 law that prohibited local governments from requiring special pay or benefit requirements (local minimum wages) on businesses. » The “Clean Energy Future Plan” requires utilities to shut down all coal-fired plants by 2030 and be carbon free by 2035, despite the lack of available technology to do so. » Independent contractor legislation (HB 4390) would force many subcontractors to become direct employees. » House Bills (4399-4401) would ban non-compete agreements and would require employers to disclose compensation information to coworkers. » Temporary worker hiring would be restricted under House Bill 4034, requiring onerous state reporting requirements. Look up bills and legislative analyses here: ABC Michigan president, Shane Hernandez speaks to the State House on June 22, 2023.
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