What’s ahead in employment law?
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Labor and employment law could undergo major changes over the next four years under the second presidential administration of Donald Trump — especially in DEI initiatives — according to Matthew Bodie, Robins Kaplan professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, and Joshua Newville, employment litigation group leader at Halunen Law.
Both Bodie and Newville remarked that the changes ahead will be reminiscent of what occurred eight years ago.
“The quick and easy answer is that it will be more of the same, more of what we saw in 2017 to 2021,” said Bodie.
“We are getting the continuation of a prior administration to some degree,” said Newville.
“I am fascinated to see how aggressively employer-friendly he is prepared to be, compared to the populist messaging that he has had,” Newville said of Trump.
Bodie and Newville think that a lot of what happened during the Biden administration will be rolled back.
“The labor board will go back to having a Republican majority, so a lot of the changes that happened over the last four years in labor law, which were kind of notable in that a lot of them were departures from the usual sort of oscillation between Democrats and Republicans on the labor board, particularly the Cemex decision…there’s a real question of what courts will do with that standard, but with the Trump administration coming in, they will probably get rid of that,” Bodie...
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