Trump Worker Bias Rule Gets Rare Challenge From Hill Democrats

The chairs of the Senate and House labor committees moved to repeal a rule governing how employers can resolve workplace bias claims, in what appears to be Democrats’ first attempt since regaining control of the Senate to undo a regulation imposed toward the end of the Trump administration.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) filed resolutions to disapprove the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s so-called conciliation rule under the Congressional Review Act. The law allows Congress to strike last-minute regulations if both chambers approve it.

President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans repealed more than a dozen Obama administration ...