Bipartisan Paid Leave, Workforce Bills Lead 2024 Labor Agenda

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are setting their sights on big labor policy goals in 2024 as they strategize to pass workforce development and paid leave legislation—issues that haven’t managed to overcome opposing efforts for decades.

As the holidays approached, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce advanced two major workforce items by wide bipartisan margins. Meanwhile, groups of Republican and Democratic lawmakers in the House and Senate have been crafting paid leave policy with the goal of passing it through both chambers by the end of 2024.

Those incremental wins give hope to proponents of both measures. The Workforce ...