Section 3 · The General Welfare
🛠️Ch. 18 — Department of Labor
DOL · 16 tracked
Ban CRT trainings; eliminate EEO-1 race data and disparate-impact liability
Proposed
Mandate would EO-ban taxpayer-funded CRT training, end EEO-1 collection, amend Title VII to bar racial classifications and eliminate disparate-impact liability, and order DOJ/EEOC enforcement against DEI classifications.
Rescind EO 11246 to eliminate OFCCP contractor affirmative-action regime
Proposed
Mandate argues OFCCP is redundant with EEOC and that rescinding EO 11246 would eliminate OFCCP while leaving statutory nondiscrimination intact.
Confine Bostock to hiring/firing; rescind SOGI/gender-identity sex-discrimination rules
Proposed
Mandate would restrict Bostock to hiring/firing, withdraw broader guidances, rescind regulations treating sex discrimination as covering sexual orientation/gender identity/trans status, and refocus enforcement on binary sex.
Clarify ERISA does not preempt state limits on abortion/surrogacy benefits
Proposed
Mandate says Congress and DOL should clarify ERISA does not block states from restricting employer abortion (and surrogacy/anti-life) benefits, and seeks equal-or-greater pro-life benefits if abortion is covered.
EO protecting religious employers; broaden Title VII religious exemptions
Proposed
Mandate seeks an EO freeing religious employers to operate by belief despite nondiscrimination laws, congressional clarification of Title VII religious exemptions, and a stricter undue-hardship standard for religious accommodations.
Restore Trump independent-contractor and joint-employer definitions
Proposed
Mandate directs NLRB/DOL to return to 2019/2021 independent contractor rules and long-standing direct-control joint-employer tests, and urges Congress to enact bright-line control tests and the Save Local Business Act.
Reinstate PRO Good Guidance rule; expand small-business regulatory exemptions
Proposed
Mandate wants DOL’s PRO Good Guidance rule restored, APA limits on guidance, Regulatory Flexibility Act exemptions, higher NLRB jurisdictional thresholds, and OSHA fine exemptions for small first-time non-willful violators.
Recreate Industry-Recognized Apprenticeships; loosen teen hazardous-job bans
Proposed
Mandate would re-create IRAPs by statute outside RAP, encourage religious groups in apprenticeships, and amend hazard-order regs so teenagers can work dangerous jobs with training and parental consent.
Prohibit private employers from using BA requirements to screen applicants
Proposed
Mandate urges Congress to ban BA requirements in private job descriptions/algorithmic screens except bona fide need, and to extend skills-based hiring to federal contractors (with an noted alternative view opposing private mandates).
Restore T-1/intermediate body transparency; end card check; kill contract bar
Proposed
Mandate seeks Intermediate Bodies and T-1 trust disclosure restoration, OLMS funding, discarding card-check recognition for secret ballot only, eliminating the contract bar, investigating worker centers as unions, and rescinding persuader rule if revived.
End mandatory Project Labor Agreements; repeal Davis–Bacon prevailing wage
Proposed
Mandate’s alternative labor policy calls to end mandatory PLAs on federal procurement and repeal Davis–Bacon as an effective tax raising construction costs ~10%.
Bar ESG factors in ERISA; depoliticize TSP; remove BlackRock/State Street; ban China
Proposed
Mandate would prohibit non-pecuniary ESG investing in ERISA, reverse TSP mutual-fund ESG windows, fire BlackRock/State Street as TSP managers, authorize independent proxy voting, and prohibit TSP China investments.
Amend NLRA so unions can bargain away FLSA/OSHA “floors” as defaults
Proposed
Mandate proposes treating national employment laws as negotiable defaults in unionized workplaces so unions could trade overtime triggers etc. for other concessions.
Hold overtime threshold to Trump-era PCE updates; telework OT/OSHA carveouts; Sabbath time-and-a-half
Proposed
Mandate prefers Trump-era overtime salary threshold with optional PCE updates, telework recording/OSHA home-office carveouts, and—per one view—FLSA time-and-a-half for Sabbath hours.
Pass TEAM Act employee involvement orgs; allow non-public UI administrators
Proposed
Mandate backs TEAM Act EIOs/board observers reforming NLRA §8(a)(2), and DOL approval of non-public worker organizations to administer unemployment insurance with political-spending limits.
Force fair-market public pension disclosure; tighten multiemployer rules; timely PBGC reports
Proposed
Mandate wants annual fair-market liability disclosure for public pensions, multiemployer reforms mirroring single-employer protections, and on-time PBGC reports using fair-market principles plus tougher action on underfunded plans.