A Brazilian woman brought her Uncle Paolo to a bank branch so he could sign a loan document for her. Uncle Paolo was in a wheelchair and couldn’t seem to grip a pen, despite the woman’s best efforts to get him to cooperate.

But Uncle Paolo had good reason not to grip the pen and sign. You see, Uncle Paolo was dead. The woman brought the deceased to the bank in a wheelchair, thinking that — well, I don’t know she was thinking.

The bank called the police, and the woman was arrested. Uncle Paolo, reportedly, is still dead. The best part? There’s video.

Also still dead is the NLRB’s recent joint employer rule, struck down by a federal judge on March 8th.

Congress just took action to try to make it deader.

On April 10, the Senate voted 50-48 to invalidate the NLRB rule, following a 206-177 vote by the House.

President Biden has indicated he would veto the resolution, but the fact that the resolution received support from moderate Democrats, not just Republicans, may be a sign of how far out of touch the NLRB’s rule really was. Two Democratic Senators and eight Democratic members of Congress voted for the resolution.

Assuming the district court decision survives on appeal, the NLRB rule will remain dead, and the Congressional vote doesn’t make any difference anyway. That’s because dead is dead.

Tell that to the Brazilian woman in the video.

© 2024 Todd Lebowitz, posted on WhoIsMyEmployee.com, Exploring Issues of Independent Contractor Misclassification and Joint Employment. All rights reserved.