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Rebecca Rainey: The US Labor Department is likely to have a busy fall, with plans to release a highly anticipated proposed update to overtime regulations and finalize changes to prevailing wage rules before the end of the year.

The overtime proposal will be issued in October and the final rule to update how the DOL calculates prevailing wages under the Davis-Bacon Act will be out by December, according to the Biden administration’s latest regulatory agenda released last week.

The administration is also taking steps to implement President Joe Biden’s February executive order requiring project labor agreements on federally funded projects above $35 million. The administration plans to release a proposed rule in June to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation—which sets rules for federal agencies when seeking contracts—to require those pre-hire agreements on future federal projects.

Notably absent from the spring agenda, however, is a rulemaking to define independent contractor status. The agency’s wage division has scheduled several meetings throughout June with businesses, labor unions, and other groups to gather feedback about a new worker classification regulation following a Texas court’s reinstatement of a Trump-era standard that made it easier for workers to be classified as contractors and therefore aren’t covered by federal wage and labor laws.

Despite being left off the schedule, the...

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