The U.S. Department of Labor is planning to change over 60 worker protections under the Trump administration, which are viewed as harmful to employee rights. Significant revisions include reversing protections for home healthcare workers and rolling back rules that prevent subminimum wage payments to disabled employees. Analysts predict these changes will lead to wage suppression and extended working hours for many staff. The report emphasizes that these regulatory changes could allow workers to be paid substantially less, particularly those with disabilities, reverting conditions that had recently improved.
The administration announced this month that it planned to change over 60 regulations it deems "unnecessary" burdens to businesses and economic growth.
In one of the most sweeping changes, the department plans to reverse a 2013 rule that extended minimum wage and overtime protections to home healthcare workers.
Stettner told Common Dreams that the changes will "suppress wages" and allow agencies to "put the screws on workers to work 50- or 60-hour weeks."
The Century Foundation report says that by ending the rule, the Trump administration would be once again "relegating workers with disabilities to jobs that pay as little as pennies per hour."
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