The new Trump administration is expected to change the rules and make it harder for workers to receive overtime pay and benefits.
The New York Times reported:
“There will be a concerted effort to overturn pro-worker NLRB precedents,” said Heidi Shierholz, a senior Labor Department official during the Obama administration, referring to the National Labor Relations Board.
Experts like Ms. Shierholz, who is now president of the liberal Economic Policy Institute, said they also expected Trump
The administration should make it easier to enforce safety regulations, restrict eligibility for overtime pay and make it harder for gig workers to gain employee status.
The reason workers should never vote for Trump can be seen in his first-term record on labor law.
Trump is an extremely anti-worker president
As I wrote in our newsletter The daily:
Donald Trump has rolled back the Obama administration's overtime rules and stripped 8.2 million workers of overtime pay. Trump filled the National Labor Relations Board with people hostile to collective bargaining and then issued a series of rules that made it harder for workers to organize.
Trump used his presidency to ensure that workers were paid less and faced more hurdles to organizing, but if there is one action that stands out above all others, it is the way Trump tried to do so Change tip.
According to the Economic Policy Institute “One of the Trump DOL's most egregious regulations was the proposed “tip theft” rule, which would allow employers to pocket their employees' tips as long as the employees are paid the minimum wage. EPI's estimates showed that if passed, the rule would have resulted in $5.8 billion in lost wages for tipped workers each year. However, before final adoption of the rule, the Secretary of Labor reportedly went to great lengths to conceal the DOL's economic analysis that showed the rule would have been costly to workers. Following this news, Congress added a section to the Fair Labor Standards Act that prohibits employers from retaining tips received from employees, ultimately invalidating the proposed rule.”
When Trump promised not to tax overtime pay, he left out an important detail. It will make it impossible for many workers to earn overtime pay, so it won't matter if it isn't taxed. Millions of workers won't get it.
For years, workers had a great time under Joe Bidenbut all of that progress will be wiped out once Trump takes office.
Trump is the most anti-worker president in a century, and yet some people didn't seem to know what they were voting for and sent him back to the White House.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also White House press secretary and congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a bachelor's degree in political science. His thesis focused on public policy with an emphasis on social reform movements.
Awards and professional memberships
Member of the Society of Professional Journalists and the American Political Science Association
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