Thursday, February 6, 2020

Trump Labor Department Deregulatory Achievements

A good government has got to know its limitations when it comes to federal regulation.

If a regulation that's meant to increase wages instead results in more unemployment, that's a problem.

Among our many other accomplishments, we lawfully updated overtime regulations for the first time in over 15 years and enabled more Americans to access portable health reimbursement arrangements.

With the Congressional Review Act, Congress helped clean up the regulatory landscape by repealing five Labor Department regulations that covered such noncritical activities as the length of time businesses were required to maintain paperwork after an employee becomes injured.

In federal court, four Obama-era labor regulations succumbed to legal challenges and were summarily stricken from the books.

We target only regulations whose good intentions never materialized or whose burden outweighs whatever supposed benefit the American workforce derives.

The Trump administration, in contrast, has no interest in playing gotcha or enforcing a regulation just because we can.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/02/trump-labor-department-deregulatory-achievements/

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