These Workers Got a Raise Thanks to the Obama Administration. Then Their Employers Took It Away.:
It might have been instructive to, say, get Trump to address the issue on a debate stage with Hillary Clinton. Many Republican politicians opposed the overtime overhaul, claiming the enhanced protections would cause employers to jettison workers, ultimately harming employment and incomes. One of Trump’s few utterances on it occurred in August, when a reporter with news app Circa brought up the policy. He responded by saying he, “would love to see a delay or carve-out of sorts for our small business owners.”
How Trump will handle this change going forward is unknown. Washington custom dictates a new president’s administration should defend rules promulgated by his predecessor. But Trump’s pick for secretary of labor, Andrew Puzder, the chief executive officer of CKE Restaurants, is a known opponent of the overtime regulations. There’s enough concern that a Trump White House will either cease defending the rule in court or fight for it so half-heartedly that the Texas AFL–CIO has petitioned to be allowed to intervene in the legal case, so that the executive branch isn’t the only one defending the regulation. (One bit of good news: The measure is not subject, as supporters initially feared it would be, to the Congressional Review Act. That’s the law that allows Congress to vote to repeal any regulation approved by the previous administration 60 legislative days before the end of the previous congressional session. The last congressional session ended in mid-June, past the point where the overtime upgrade could be rolled back.)
Our best chance of seeing how the Trump administration wants to proceed is at Puzder’s Senate confirmation hearing, which has been postponed twice already. When it finally takes place, perhaps someone can ask him about the overtime regulations. Millions of Americans would like to know what he thinks.
Interesting article from SLATE.. I am most interested so far in watching the Puzder process and results.. and what the Trump Admin will do with the historic US DOL regulations that were set to start December 1 but then put on hold because of federal court action..
A reg that will go away with the stroke of a pen? Or will the courts work things out..
We will find out very very soon..
