President Biden has submitted the Administration’s budget request for fiscal year 2025 to Congress. It calls for significant funding increases for the EEOC and other workplace regulatory agencies for FY 2025, which covers the period October 1, 2024, to September 30, 2025. It also proposes major policy changes, such as a paid family leave program and big increases in penalties for employers that violate federal employment laws.
As with Biden’s previous annual budget proposals, this one should be viewed more as a wish list from labor unions and worker advocacy groups than as a budget that Congress is likely to pass. In the end, it will be Congress, not the Administration, that decides the final government funding numbers and policy changes, if any. In view of Congress’s partisan divide in this national election year, there is little chance that Congress will grant Biden’s wishes.
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