The 2018 national elections gave the Democrats majority control of the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time in eight years. As we predicted at the time, one of the major priorities of the new majority was to revise federal labor and employment laws to make them more employee friendly. At the same time, we pointed out that a Republican-controlled Senate and an anti-regulation White House were not likely to be receptive to anything the House passed.
As we look back over what happened during the last Congress, it’s clear that the House Democratic majority met its goal by approving a number of major employment law changes – indeed, by our count, 23 different bills that would significantly change current employment law. Not surprisingly, however, only two of these 23 measures were signed into law, demonstrating the challenge of advancing major policy change in a politically divided government.
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