Labor Department in Time Crunch to Finish Big-Ticket Regulations

The US Labor Department is running out of time to finish some of its highest-profile labor policy changes, putting several regulations at risk of being sidelined or completely undone.

With roughly a year and a half left in the Biden administration’s term, at least three major DOL rules haven’t yet been finalized: one updating prevailing wage rates paid to workers on federally funded projects, one outlining independent contractor status under federal wage laws, and another that sets when salaried workers are due overtime pay.

Those policy changes not only take time to complete the regulatory process, but are expected to ...