Warren, Democrats Press DOL Over Disability Protection Cuts

More than 50 House and Senate Democrats asked Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer to explain her agency’s proposed rollbacks of programs and regulations intended to protect some disabled workers from discrimination and raise their wages.

Led by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Tammy Duckworth (Ill.), the lawmakers are seeking the US Labor Department’s rationale for proposals that include eliminating a 7% “utilization goal” for government contractors to employ qualified individuals with disabilities. They also questioned the agency’s decision to scrap a Biden-era push to end lower minimum wages for certain disabled workers.

Those changes appear to amount to a “coordinated assault ...