Virginia is inching closer to raising its minimum wage, establishing a slew of new protections for workers and massively reforming its gambling laws — but even in a newly-Democrat-controlled General Assembly, broader reforms to the state’s economy didn’t find much success in the 2020 session. Perhaps the most closely watched bill among the business community, an effort to repeal Virginia’s “right-to-work” law, has already died for the year in the face of stern warnings from business executives and even the state’s own economic development arm. Unions and some progressive Democrats had hoped to finally roll back the provision in a bid to expand union membership, but Gov. Ralph Northam signaled he’d oppose such an effort. Read More...
Virginia is inching closer to raising its minimum wage, establishing a slew of new protections for workers and massively reforming its gambling laws — but even in a newly-Democrat-controlled General Assembly, broader reforms to the state’s economy didn’t find much success in the 2020 session. Perhaps the most closely watched bill among the business community, an effort to repeal Virginia’s “right-to-work” law, has already died for the year in the face of stern warnings from business executives and even the state’s own economic development arm. Unions and some progressive Democrats had hoped to finally roll back the provision in a bid to expand union membership, but Gov. Ralph Northam signaled he’d oppose such an effort.
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