The Employee Rights Act of 2022 will update labor laws for the modern era, ensuring that they protect workers’ essential rights and prioritizes workers’ ability to earn a living in the ways that are best for them. Pictured: Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., the main sponsor of the bill, is seen here at a Senate Banking Committee hearing on March 3. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc./Getty Images)

The way we work has always been evolving, but the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated change. Progress that might otherwise have taken over a decade to achieve was crammed into a single year. With the rapid pace of change, it is critical that labor laws keep up with the times.

Fortunately, a group of lawmakers have introduced the Employee Rights Act of 2022—a much needed update to our nation’s labor laws. Consider all the game-changing factors that have occurred since the onset of the pandemic, which have made an update all the more necessary:

• Forced closures required businesses to adapt technology and ways of work that kept operations going in the short-term and created more efficient and flexible platforms for the future.
• Job losses and an increased need for autonomy and flexibility (given school and childcare closures) contributed to 12% of the workforce...

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