Pro-employee PRO Act Reintroduced in Congress
On February 4, 2021, House Democrats reintroduced the Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2019 (PRO Act). The sweeping labor legislation, which would return many provisions of current labor laws to their pre-1947 status, would create new claims and impose punitive penalties and strengthen a number of union and employee rights. The legislation has a checkered past: it passed in the House in early 2020, but stalled in the then Republican-controlled Senate. Now, under…