WASHINGTON—The $1.5 trillion federal money bill for the whole government, running at that rate through September 30, gives the National Labor Relations Board and other worker enforcement agencies more cash and often more staff.
And as if that wasn’t enough to help the feds crack down on corporate crooks—though lawmakers didn’t use those words—the House Appropriations Committee, which wrote most of the measure, wants those agencies, including the NLRB and enforcers within the Labor Department, to work together on investigations and information about corporate abuses.
The measure, which Democratic President Joe Biden signed on March 15, funds all government agencies from now through the end of fiscal 2022. The measure is a 52%-48% split between military and non-military spending.
As in past years, there was interesting news not just in the raw figures, but in instructions lawmakers gave to agency chiefs.
Thus the NLRB, for example, got $317 million for this fiscal year, an increase of $42.7 million over the year ending last September 30. The Biden administration, which has turned the board around, expects it to hire 162 more staffers, rising to 1,387. That’s what the appropriators, led by panel chair Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., want. So do unions.
But DeLauro and her Democratic majority also want the NLRB, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Wage and Hour Division, and other agencies to work together on probing and punishing corporate malefactors.
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