The Beltway Buzz is a weekly update summarizing labor and
employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how
what's happening in Washington, D.C. could impact your
business.
USMCA Moves Forward. This week, Congress
wrapped a bow on 2019 with some significant legislative
accomplishments. For example, on December 19, 2019, the House of
Representatives approved the United
States–Mexico–Canada Agreement. Next stop is, of
course, the Senate. But as the Buzz mentioned
last week, the Senate may be preoccupied with the impeachment
trial during the first few weeks of January 2020.
Porky Spending Bills Contain Workplace
Measures. With gridlock being par for the course for
Congress these days, "must pass" spending bills can
become a convenient vehicle on which to attach languishing bills.
Thus, at the 11th hour this week, Congress agreed to two
legislative packages that not only fund the federal government
beyond December 20, 2019, but are also chock-full of
