Nearly six months into the federal government’s 2022 fiscal year (October 1, 2021 – September 30, 2022), Congress and the White House have finally reached an agreement to fund the government through the end of September. Congress approved the omnibus spending bill on March 10, and President Biden is expected to sign the measure into law.
Even though the bill contains billions of dollars in increases over last year’s amounts for both domestic and defense programs, and even though the President had sought big funding increases for the federal worksite enforcement agencies, at the end of the day Congress instead provided only modest increases for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and most Labor Department subagencies, including the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) and the Wage and Hour Division (WHD), while the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) received no increase at all.
Members of the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC) can read more here.