POTUS Releases FY 2023 Budget. This week, President Biden released his budget for fiscal year (FY) 2023, which begins on October 1, 2022. As the Buzz has written many times in the past, because the U.S. Congress has the “power of the purse” and is solely responsible for establishing government funding levels, presidential budgets are, in reality, aspirational documents containing presidential spending preferences. Of note for labor and employment spending: the FY 2023 budget would provide the National Labor Relations Board with $319 million—up 16 percent from the roughly $274 million that it has annually received since 2014. With the November elections looming, and considering the fact that federal spending is always a contentious fight in Congress (recall that funding for FY 2022 was only agreed to last month), this budget is merely the first step in a series of lengthy negotiations.
Senate Rejects DOL Nominee. On March 30, 2022, the U.S. Senate voted against advancing the nomination of David Weil to be administrator of the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division. The procedural vote effectively defeats Weil’s nomination. Weil previously served as former President Obama’s wage and hour administrator from 2014 to 2017. In that role, he advanced policy changes relating to overtime, as well as tests for joint employer and independent contractor status that drew criticism—and legal challenges—from the business community. No word yet on whether President Biden...
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