From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/):
In his first year, President Trump—with the help of Congress—launched an unprecedented attack on regulations, rolling back or delaying countless rules protecting workers. A report from EPI’s Perkins Project on Worker Rights and Wages details the deregulatory actions that advantaged corporate interests and the wealthy at the expense of workers’ health, safety, and pay. These include the Department of Labor’s failure to defend a rule extending overtime protections to more workers—a rule that would have protected low-income workers who are classified as “managers” from being forced to work unpaid overtime—and its delay of a rule protecting workers from harmful exposure to silica dust, exposure that has serious—even life-threatening—health consequences . Read the report »
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