WASHINGTON – Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced its final rule to increase the minimum wage for federal contract workers to $15 an hour: “Mandating a $15 minimum wage for federal contractors will cost jobs, forcing additional burdens on small businesses. “With months of forced... Read more »
Tucked into the Democrats’ socialist spending bill is a nasty scheme intended to bleed American job creators dry. The Education and Labor Committee provisions in this bill alone would add a whopping $454.1 billion to the deficit. How do Democrats propose to pay for their outrageous expansion of the federal bureaucracy? Through massive fines leveled on job creators. These unprecedented increases in... Read more »
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Oversight and Reform Committee Republican Leader James Comer (R-KY), Subcommittee on Government Operations Republican Leader Jody Hice (R-GA), Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Republican Leader Rick Allen (R-GA), and Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Republican Leader Fred Keller (R-PA) sent a l... Read more »
Christmas is cancelled – at least, in the way Americans have come to know it. Despite COVID-19’s waning risks on indoor gathering, Biden’s supply chain crisis is still threatening to derail the holiday. And labor unions share a large portion of that blame. In a recent Politico opinion piece, while lamenting the perilous state of U.S. shipping logistics even before the pandemic, Rich Lowry writes, ... Read more »
Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), Republican Leader of the Oversight and Reform Ranking Committee James Comer (R-Ky.), and Republican Leader of Small Business Committee Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Martin J. Walsh regarding the Biden Administration’s troubling COVID-19 vaccine-and-testing mandate ... Read more »
Joe Biden’s promise not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $400,000 a year is hitting a major snag: inflation. Our economy should be booming. Low-income Americans are experiencing an unprecedented 4.8 percent wage growth.* But rampant government spending, combined with lingering COVID-19 hardships, have decreased employees’ real wages by half a percent. Inflation is a tax on hardworking Ame... Read more »
One of government’s most basic responsibilities is to defend fiercely freedom of religion. Unfortunately, Democrats often abandon that call and become religious freedom’s greatest threat. Their latest battleground against our first amendment rights is the budget. The Democrats’ plan allocates funding that could result in a rewriting of key Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) guidance on... Read more »
Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Republican Leader of the Workforce Protections Subcommittee Fred Keller (R-PA) sent a comment letter to Department of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh raising concerns about a proposed rule hiking the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 an hour. In the letter, the Members write: “We are concerned that mandati... Read more »
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leaders Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Fred Keller (R-PA) issued the following statement hitting Biden’s Department of Labor (DOL) for rescinding a common-sense Trump administration rule, which determined joint-employer status under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): “Today’s final rule signals a return to the heavy-handed, one-size-fits-all regulatory e... Read more »
Yet again, Democrats are attempting to ram through a massive spending package that balloons the national debt and the left-wing agenda in one fell swoop. Here’s what you need to know about the horrible education and labor provisions in the Fiscal Year 2022 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act: Labor Provisions: ➢ Emboldens federal bureaucrats. The bi... Read more »
