The beginning of President Donald Trump’s second presidency has already included “dramatic changes” in labor and employment policy and law — and more are expected, Littler’s Workplace Policy Institute said in its 2025 Labor Day Report, released last week.
“In less than nine months, the new administration has transformed more than six decades of labor and employment policy, and there is no indication that the pace will slow. As key oversight and enforcement agency positions are filled, we anticipate further upheaval,” Shannon Meade, WPI’s executive director, and WPI co-chairs Alex MacDonald and Jim Paretti said in a joint statement.
Some of the changes benefit employers, but “that is not universal,” the authors said. Changes at the federal level also are being counteracted by “so-called ‘blue states’” passing laws in response that either give employees more workplace protections or try to tip the scale back in favor of workers, Littler said.
Littler identified the following trends:
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