Labor Panel’s Top GOP Senator Sees Path for Paid Parental Leave

After his first month as the top Republican on the Senate’s labor panel, Louisiana’s Sen. Bill Cassidy predicts there could be bipartisan action on workforce development and movement on paid leave legislation.

In turn, however, Cassidy expects to push back on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) plan for the committee’s approach to businesses and investigations, he said in an interview with Bloomberg Law.

Recent committee action offers a preview of the back and forth to come. Senate Republicans and a few Democrats rejected a US Department of Labor rule on environmental, social, and governance retirement ...