To amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 to require that individuals who perform work for employers as independent contractors be treated as employees.

Based on the bill's title, this legislation would amend six major federal employment and civil rights laws to reclassify independent contractors as employees for purposes of those statutes. The bill would extend protections under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act to workers currently classified as independent contractors. The specific scope and mechanisms of this reclassification are not available from the title alone.

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