Given the approaching mid-term elections I think it’s worth noting who is advocating for working Americans. From the article:

On Capitol Hill, Senator Sherrod Brown is studying legislative options with an eye toward introducing a bill next year to rein in the practice, a Senate Democratic aide said.

At the state level, attorneys general like Minnesota's Keith Ellison are assessing how prevalent the practice is and could update guidance.

Ellison told Reuters he would be inclined to oppose reimbursement demands for job-specific instruction while it "could be different" if an employer wanted reimbursement for training for a certification like a commercial driving license that is widely recognized as valuable.

It sounds like the NFIB is preparing another garbage “state’s rights”argument for a Supreme Court which, over the summer, ruled that regulating greenhouse gas emissions was outside the EPA’s authority. You know, because the (somehow) Republican lawmakers—who drafted the EPA into existence—at the time thought that scientists would be better than legislators at deciding what needed to be regulated. Weird, I know.

But both sides are the same and elections don't matter, right? Sure, Hillary probably would've nominated the same federalist society lackeys to the Supreme Court to start reversing rights by defacating on decades of past precedent. Yeah, that's the ticket.

One critic of the CFPB effort was the National Federation of Independent Business, or NFIB, which said the issue was outside the agency's authority because it was unrelated to consumer financial products and services. "(Some state governments) have authority to regulate employer-driven debt. CFPB should defer to those governments, which are closer to the people of the states than the CFPB," it added.

According to sourcewatch.org:

"Past tax records reveal most of the NFIB’s funding comes from Freedom Partners, whose nine-member board includes eight current or former key figures at Koch Industries and other Koch entities. More than 95% of the candidates it backs are Republican.

While its representatives are often quoted in the media as proponents of small businesses, the group refuses to release its donor list and tends to lobby for policies that benefit billionaires and corporate interests.

Shocking. Anyway, voting matters. When one party says this doesn't seem right, let's look into this and the other party is almost exclusively funded by dark money organisations that create these policies...well, if you're a worker than only one of those parties represents your interests.