Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) wants to reverse a variety of Obama administration labor actions and push legislation to limit the executive branch's regulatory authority if she's named chairwoman of the Education and the Workforce Committee in the next Congress.
“We need to not just roll back the regulations from the Obama administration, but write legislation that makes it abundantly… Read more »
Rep. Virginia Foxx, a Republican who represents North Carolina’s Fifth District, including Watauga County, voted with a 246-177 majority on House Bill 6094 on Sept. 28 to delay the Department of Labor’s new overtime rule for six months.
The DOL rule, scheduled to take effect in December, makes anyone earning up to $47,476 a year eligible for overtime pay. The salary cutoff now is… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., today voted to delay the effective date of the Department of Labor’s controversial overtime rule for six months.
“All too often the executive branch enacts policies that sound wonderful but impose unintended consequences and burdens that make the lives of hardworking Americans more difficult,” said Foxx during remarks on the House floor. “This… Read more »
The clock is ticking on efforts to fend off the overtime rule, despite 21 states' lawsuit against the Department of Labor (DOL) and, in a separate effort, small businesses seeking a delay in the effective date. Unless the states can block it or the National Federation of Independent Business can get it delayed, the rule is less than three months away from taking effect on Dec.… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., today praised the House Committee on Education and the Workforce’s unanimous passage of legislation that strengthens career and technical education.
“For far too long, there has been a discrepancy in what students are learning in the classroom and what employers say they need in the workplace,” said Foxx, chair of the House Subcommittee on… Read more »
House Education and the Workforce Committee Chair John Kline (R-Minn.) and Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) said today that the Obama administration took too long to implement bipartisan legislation to modernize job training.
In joint statement, the lawmakers said that although workers "will finally have the opportunity to enjoy all the benefits of a modern workforce development… Read more »
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, introduced a resolution Thursday under the Congressional Review Act to block the new overtime rule set by the Labor Department on May 18.
The resolution, H.J. Res. 95, provides for congressional disapproval of the Labor Department’s overtime rule.
The resolution is meant to… Read more »
Two years ago, the Obama administration introduced an effort to update rules surrounding federal wage and hour standards incorporated into the Fair Labor Standards Act. The result of that effort will begin to be felt near the end of this year. It won’t stop there.
First, some background: On Dec. 1, the final rule, which was released by the Department of Labor in May, will more than… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, today introduced a resolution (H. J. Res. 95) under the Congressional Review Act to protect workers, students, nonprofit organizations, and small business owners from the consequences of the Department of Labor’s controversial overtime rule.
Concerns have been raised… Read more »
House Republicans are looking to shut down an effort by the Obama administration to raise overtime pay for millions of workers.
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) on Thursday filled a motion of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act in an effort to repeal the Labor Department’s new overtime rule.
“Our nation’s overtime rules need to be modernized, but the Department of Labor’s… Read more »
