The U.S. Division of Labor stated Thursday it intends to revisit its time beyond regulation laws underneath the Truthful Labor Requirements Act however didn’t disclose a deadline by which to difficulty an replace on the topic, in accordance with a press launch.
DOL revealed its full Spring 2025 regulatory agenda through the White Home Workplace of Administration and Funds’s regulatory affairs web site after apparently eradicating an earlier model of the listing revealed final month. The newest listing retains efforts recognized by DOL in August — reminiscent of proposed guidelines on the FLSA’s joint-employer and employee classification requirements — in addition to a separate part on long-term regulatory initiatives together with an time beyond regulation rule.
Timelines on the totally different proposals differ. For instance, DOL estimated that an up to date impartial contractor rulemaking may come by the top of September, whereas a proposed rule on joint-employer laws was given a December 2025 estimate.
“This regulatory agenda displays our steadfast dedication to restoring financial alternative by fostering innovation and decreasing pointless burdens on employers,” Deputy Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling stated in DOL’s press launch. “By modernizing outdated guidelines and prioritizing readability and effectivity, we’re constructing a extra agile, worker-centered labor coverage framework that fuels financial development and prosperity.”
DOL stated its subsequent motion on time beyond regulation pay eligibility requirements is undetermined and equally didn’t present a agency date on when it might take motion. The company stated it was reviewing the Biden administration’s 2024 time beyond regulation rule, since vacated by a federal choose, and “figuring out proceed.” The Trump administration has already appealed each of the 2 federal courtroom choices vacating the 2024 rule to the fifth U.S. Circuit Court docket of Appeals; the circumstances stay in litigation.
A separate entry famous that DOL can be evaluating tackle facets of the Biden administration’s proposed time beyond regulation rule that it didn’t finalize, particularly up to date normal wage ranges for U.S. territories together with Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa in addition to these for the movement image trade.
Different regulatory timelines clarified in DOL’s replace embody a Could 2026 goal date for rulemaking on funding recommendation fiduciary guidelines underneath the Worker Retirement Earnings Safety Act.
