This is a weekly post spotlighting labor topics in focus by the US legislative and executive branches during the previous week.
Both chambers of the U.S. Congress were in session this week, after a week-long recess for the Thanksgiving holiday. Late on Thursday, the U.S. Senate approved an 11-week stopgap spending bill in a 69-28 vote, sending the measure to the President’s desk and averting a possible Federal Government shutdown at midnight on Friday. The Continuing Resolution (CR) keeps Federal Government funding at levels set almost a year ago, under the previous Administration.
Prior to advancing the CR, the Senate voted on an amendment put forward by Senators Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) that would have blocked the Biden Administration’s vaccination requirements for U.S. businesses, the Pentagon and the Federal workforce. That amendment failed to advance after a 48-50 vote under a simple majority threshold. Republican Senators John Thune (South Dakota) and Bill Hagerty (Tennessee) missed the vote. For the remainder of the legislative calendar year, lawmakers have a number of issues to address, such as the Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and Democrats are still pushing to approve their social spending bill, the Build Back Better Act.
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Labor released its November Jobs Report, reflecting the U.S. economy added 210,000 jobs in November. Economists had anticipated there...
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