Despite the Biden Administration’s calls for substantially increased funding in fiscal year 2022 (FY 2022) for the various federal workplace enforcement agencies, including the Department of Labor (DOL) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), those agencies will have to wait a few more months before they see that money, if at all. As a result, previously announced ambitious plans by those agencies to beef up enforcement staff are also likely on hold for now.
This all comes about because the U.S. Congress has once again failed to come to agreement on any of the annual spending bills to fund the government in FY 2022, which began on October 1, 2021, and runs through September 30, 2022. Instead, legislators last week reached a last-minute deal on a temporary spending bill – known as a continuing resolution (CR) – that now funds the government at FY 2021 levels until February 18, 2022, or nearly five months into FY 2022.
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