It's just telling that you've got an authoritarian playbook that sort of, at every pass, seems to be more focused on driving up corporate profits at the expense of the American people.
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Department of Labor and Related Agencies
and wasted resources, and artificially increases consumer prices. It is a significant problem that is difficult to address at the federal level.
• Congress should ensure that interstate compacts for occupational license recognition that are federally funded do not require new or additional qualifications (that is, qualifications that do not originate from state governments themselves) for licensed professionals to participate.
• Congress should ensure that well-qualified licensees are not locked out of the job market by restrictive government programs funded by the federal government. (For instance, medical doctors must complete residency training to practice, and because Medicare provides funding for significantly fewer residencies than there are doctors, sizable numbers of MDs are locked out of the job market every year.)
Wagner-Peyser Staffing Flexibility. State agencies that administer unemployment benefits and workforce development programs should be able to hire the best people to do the job and should not be required to use state employees ifa contractor can do the job better. Further, the federal government should not force a state to use non-union labor or union labor for these positions.
• DOL should repromulgate the Trump-era staffing flexibility rule, and Congress should codify it.
WORKER RETIREMENT SAVINGS, ESG,
AND PENSION REFORMS
• Remove ESG considerations from ERISA. Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) investing is a relatively recent strategy promoted by large asset managers that focuses not only on a company’s bottom line, but also on the company’s compliance with liberal political views on climate change, racial quotas, abortion, and other issues. The ESG movement has focused especially on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. For example, ESG proponents advocate for divestment from oil and gas companies or the exercise of investor influence to reduce oil and gas production.
ESG considerations unrelated to investor risks and returns necessarily sacrifice trust law’s traditional sole focus on investment returns for collateral interests. And while individual investors may prefer to invest
in “green” companies, “woke” companies, or companies with greater board diversity, and may even be willing to sacrifice some financial gains to do