Interagency Coordination on Labor Regulation

Hiba Hafiz
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After 9/11, Congress, federal agencies, and scholars exposed the devastating results of the national security agencies’ failure to coordinate. The financial crisis has been linked to similar coordination failures in the context of interagency banking regulation, with jurisdictional gaps and blind spots resulting in failure to prevent a global recession. But despite Gilded Age-levels of inequality, little attention has focused on the failures of interagency coordination to secure Americans’ access to economic opportunity through work—whether through securing higher wages and higher union density, coordinating government enforcement to achieve redistributive goals and combat consolidation of employer buyer power, or overcoming systemic abuses in employers’ wage theft, discrimination, and worker mistreatment. The crippling spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic demands that now, more than ever, agencies coordinate in their regulation of labor markets to accomplish micro- and macroeconomic policy outcomes. This Essay is a component of a larger project that seeks to document federal agencies’ selective coordination along six core policy vectors that impact work- or income-based avenues towards equality—macroeconomic, microeconomic, institution-building, industry-specific, anti-subordination, and democratic/expressive policy. It presents the results of a novel data set collecting and systematizing existing Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) authorized by the core agencies involved in labor market regulation: the Department of Labor (DOL), its sub-agencies, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the Department of Justice-Antitrust Division, and the Federal Trade Commission. By reviewing and hand-coding the 113 discoverable MOUs from the 1950s to the present, the Essay highlights which labor agencies coordinate most and least, what MOUs historically facilitate as a substantive and administrative matter, best practices of interagency coordination through MOUs, the network of existing institutional relationships for mobilization along the six policy vectors previously identified, and the broad scope and areas of labor market regulation on which coordination has not yet occurred. It concludes by arguing that the federal government lacks a coherent, aligned vision on labor market regulation and economic mobility through work, and proposes next steps for integrating agency coordination.
劳动法规的跨部门协调
9/11之后,国会、联邦机构和学者揭露了国家安全机构未能协调造成的毁灭性后果。金融危机与机构间银行监管中的类似协调失败有关,管辖权差距和盲点导致未能防止全球衰退。但是,尽管存在镀金时代的不平等水平,但很少有人关注机构间协调的失败,以确保美国人通过工作获得经济机会——无论是通过确保更高的工资和更高的工会密度,协调政府执法以实现再分配目标和打击雇主买方权力的巩固,还是克服雇主工资盗窃、歧视和虐待工人等系统性滥用。冠状病毒(COVID-19)大流行的严重传播要求各机构现在比以往任何时候都更需要在劳动力市场监管方面进行协调,以实现微观和宏观经济政策成果。本文是一个更大项目的组成部分,该项目旨在记录联邦机构在影响以工作或收入为基础的平等途径的六个核心政策向量上的选择性协调——宏观经济、微观经济、制度建设、特定行业、反从属和民主/表达政策。它展示了一个新数据集的结果,该数据集收集并系统化了由涉及劳动力市场监管的核心机构授权的现有谅解备忘录(mou):劳工部(DOL),其子机构,国家劳工关系委员会(NLRB),平等就业机会委员会(EEOC),司法部反托拉斯司和联邦贸易委员会。通过回顾和手工编码从20世纪50年代至今的113份可发现的谅解备忘录,本文强调了哪些劳工机构协调最多,哪些最少,谅解备忘录在历史上作为实质性和行政事务促进了什么,通过谅解备忘录进行机构间协调的最佳实践,现有机构关系网络沿着先前确定的六个政策向量进行动员,劳动力市场监管的广泛范围和领域尚未出现协调。报告的结论是,联邦政府在劳动力市场监管和通过工作实现的经济流动性方面缺乏连贯一致的愿景,并提出了整合机构协调的下一步措施。
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