Paul DeCamp, Member of the Firm in the Employment, Labor & Workforce Management practice, in the firm’s Washington, DC, office, was quoted in the Bloomberg Law Daily Labor Report, in “Few of Workers’ Biggest Gains from Biden Era Are Safe from Trump,” by Josh Eidelson. (Read the full version – subscription required.)
Following is an excerpt:
For American labor, which has been embattled for decades but invigorated over the past few years, Donald Trump ’s big win is a body blow. …
The risks and burdens foisted on workers early in the Covid era had a lot to do with making those changes feel urgent. The tight labor markets the pandemic created made them seem more possible. But the Biden administration played an important part, too. A handful of key appointees took on corporate America in ways unseen in decades. The industrial policy coming out of Washington favored workers. Biden himself walked a picket line. These moves helped create openings for organized labor that Trump is likely to slam shut. …
On the campaign trail this year, Trump courted union workers and promised many that he’d do better for them than Biden did. The last time Trump ran the government, however, he filled key enforcement roles with management-side attorneys who pushed for companies to have more control over workers’ tips, more time to run anti-union campaigns and more discretion over who gets paid overtime. Now that he’s had some practice, he’s likely to do more, faster, with “a deregulatory emphasis,” says Paul DeCamp, a corporate lawyer who served as George W. Bush’s wage and hour enforcement chief. “There’s no real preparation for being president other than having been president.”
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