Democrats to Probe Labor Department on Tips, Child Labor

House Democrats plan to use their new majority to bring Labor Department officials in for hearings on a botched regulation for tipped workers and a move to allow teenagers to work in health care jobs, Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) told Bloomberg Law Nov. 7.

“If you’re having a regulatory change, the law requires you to produce the evidence to support the change,” Scott, the top Democrat on the House Education and the Workforce Committee, said. Democrats on the panel “would like to see” what the Labor Department “is looking at” to support the moves, he said.

The department came under ...