The US Labor Department will pivot back to a business-first approach under President Donald Trump, with Biden-era rules that expanded worker protections on the chopping block and enforcement priorities heading for a sea change.
Once in place in January, expect the incoming administration to quickly drop its legal defense of multiple DOL regulations attacked in court by employer groups and Republican-led states, and eventually roll them back through the rulemaking process, attorneys said.
Those include measures to expand overtime pay eligibility, raise the bar for classifying gig workers as independent contractors, apply the strictest standards to retirement advice, expand labor ...