Rob Andrews: “I find it rather ironic that the party of Abraham Lincoln would be pursuing a piece of legislation that has such…”

“I find it rather ironic that the party of Abraham Lincoln would be pursuing a piece of legislation that has such negative implications for people's individual liberty and autonomy. It is a concern that really has not been brought up yet about this bill, but it is a very practical one, and I want to spend a few minutes talking about it. A few minutes ago, our friends from Pennsylvania and Illinois said that the party who would determine the employee's intent as to primary purpose would be the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board. In fact, as a practical matter, the first person who would determine the employee's principal purpose would be the employer. The employer is going to determine what the principal or primary purpose of the employee is. How exactly is the employer going to do that? Is the employer going to speak? I assume the employer is going to interview the employee, and most employees are going to say, my purpose is to do the job well.”