Paul DeCamp, Member of the firm in the Employment, Labor & Workforce Management practice, in the firm’s Washington, DC, office, was quoted in the Law360 in “DOL Shifted Focus From Worker-Friendly Rules in 2025,” by Irene Spezzamonte.
The following is an excerpt:
Earlier this month, the DOL told the Fifth Circuit that it was revisiting the rule raising the salary thresholds to consider employees overtime-exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act. …
Paul DeCamp, who was the U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division administrator under former President George W. Bush, told Law360 that the home care rule proposal this year was "a little bit unexpected."
"That was not something that I had on my bingo card for this year, but not out of line with where the administration is, which I think, is trying to streamline the items that are actually in the Code of Federal Regulations so that they're more in line with the statutes," said DeCamp, a member of management-side firm Epstein Becker Green.
The U.S. Supreme Court's nixing of the Chevron deference last year might have contributed to "breathing new life" into the debate over an Obama rule people thought was set in stone, DeCamp said.
"I think there's some thought that maybe the regulations issued during the Obama years survived under the Chevron standard, but might not survive under the Loper Bright standard," he said. …
