On May 23, the Trump administration released its spring 2019
Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, in
which employment and workplace practices were the focus of a number
of proposed regulations.
In many instances it amounts to a "righting of the
ship" from existing federal employment regulations and
decisions that were burdensome and difficult to navigate.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Labor Relations Committee
published some of the highlights:
Department of Labor (DOL) – Wage and Hour
Administration
- Proposed Rule: Defining
and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative,
Professional, Outside Sales and Computer
Employees
In what essentially amounts to overtime regulation, the
Department of Labor has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
(NPRM) to determine the appropriate salary level for exemption of
executive, administrative and professional employees under the Fair
Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The comment
