The House Education and Workforce Committee approved its oversight plan for the next two years. Priorities for the Committee’s oversight include:
- Wage and Hour oversight involving “workers, employers, and other stakeholders to consider how best to modernize federal wage and hour laws.”
- Retirement Security and Pensions oversight focused on engaging with “workers, employers, retirees, and other stakeholders to consider how best to strengthen laws governing retirement security,” reviewing the “PBGC’s recovery efforts of amounts improperly paid under the Biden-Harris administration’s Special Financial Assistance program to multiemployer plans on the basis of deceased participants” and reviewing the Employee Benefits Secretary Administration’s enforcement activity and rulemakings implementing…ERISA.
- Healthcare oversight dedicated to “ensuring employers have the flexibility and tools to offer workers and their families affordable, employer-sponsored health care coverage that fits their individual needs,” overseeing the “implementation of laws governing mental health and substance abuse treatment” and maintaining “the protection of ERISA preemption of state insurance law.”
- Workplace Safety and Health oversight targeting “OSHA’s efforts to end or modify Biden-Harris administration regulatory efforts that burden job creators while doing little to improve workplace safety.”
- National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) oversight dedicated to ensuring the NLRB is interpreting and implementing the National Labor Relations Act in a manner that supports workers and employers.”
- Equal Employment Opportunity oversight scrutinizing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) “to ensure proper implementation and enforcement of employment nondiscrimination laws with a specific focus on the EEOC’s implementation of the 2024 final rule on the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and of the 2024 enforcement guidance on harassment in the workplace.”
- Union Accountability and Transparency Oversight focused on the Labor Department’s “implementation of the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act and conducting oversight on unions, as needed, to ensure they are respecting the democratic rights of their members and properly managing their members’ dues, education funds, and pension programs.”