Federal agencies including the U.S. Department of Labor, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Department of Homeland Security provided a series of updates on new and existing regulatory efforts to the White House Office of Management and Budget on Friday.
The filings provided timelines on forthcoming proposed and final rules such as worker classification while announcing new regulations addressing work hours for minors, protections for pregnant workers and disparate impact liability theory, among other subjects.
The announcements are part of the Trump administration’s broader push to reshape federal employment law compliance, particularly in the antidiscrimination and wage-and-hour contexts.
One of the biggest items given more clarity last week is the Trump administration’s independent contactor rule, the proposed version of which DOL published in February.
The proposal would return the agency’s interpretation of the Fair Labor Standards Act closer to that of the version adopted during Trump’s first term in office. The rule would be centered on an “economic reality test” that examines a worker’s main source of income via two core factors: the degree of control the worker has over their work, and their opportunity for profit or loss based on initiative, investment or both.
DOL set an October 2026 deadline for the independent contractor final rule. It estimated that the rule would provide an “initial, one-time...
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