Punching In: Letters, Lawsuits and the Future of Work

Monday morning musings for workplace watchers

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Chris Opfer: President Donald Trump last week signed a pair of executive orders aimed to ban federal agencies from issuing a wide range of subregulatory guidance. Those policy proclamations have long been chided by the small government crowd as thinly veiled rulemaking without the public notice and comment process required for actual regulations.

The White House pointed in particular to a 2015 guidance document from the Labor Department, in which Obama Wage and Hour Administrator David Weil ...