The incoming Trump administration is expected to change the rules to make it more difficult for workers to receive overtime pay and benefits.
“There will be a concerted effort to reverse pro-worker NLRB precedent,” said Heidi Schierholz, a senior Labor Department official during the Obama administration, referring to the National Labor Relations Board. Ta.
Experts like Mr. Schielholz, now director of the Liberal Economic Policy Institute, also said they were hopeful about Mr. Trump’s policies. The administration is seeking to loosen enforcement of safety rules, narrow eligibility for overtime pay and make it harder for gig workers to obtain employee status.
Just look at his labor record during his first term to see why blue-collar workers should never vote for Trump.
Trump is a very anti-worker president
As I wrote in the newsletter, Daily paper:
Donald Trump has rescinded the Obama administration’s overtime rules, leaving 8.2 million workers ineligible for overtime pay. President Trump has assembled opponents of collective bargaining at the National Labor Relations Board, and they have issued a series of rules that will make it more difficult for workers to organize.
Trump has used his presidency to push workers to lower wages and face more hurdles to organizing, but if there’s one action that stands out above the rest, it’s Here’s how Trump tried to change the tip.
According to the Economic Policy Institute, “One of President Trump’s most egregious rulemakings is a proposed “tip theft” rule that would allow employers to pocket employees’ tips as long as workers are paid minimum wage. EPI estimates that if the rule is finalized, tipped workers would lose $5.8 billion in wages each year. But before the rule was finalized, news reports revealed that the Secretary of Labor did everything in his power to hide the DOL’s economic analysis showing the rule would cause significant harm to workers. . In response to this news, Congress added a provision to the Fair Labor Standards Act prohibiting employers from keeping tips received from employees, ultimately invalidating the proposed rule. ”
President Trump omitted a key detail when he promised not to tax overtime pay. He’s going to make it impossible for many workers to earn overtime, so it doesn’t matter if it’s not taxed. Millions of workers won’t be able to get it.
Workers had great years under Joe Bidenbut all that progress will be erased once Trump becomes president.
Trump is the most hostile president in 100 years, but some people apparently sent him back to the White House because they didn’t know what they were voting for.
