“Trump to cut protections for home health aides, migrant farmworkers”

The U.S. Labor Department announced plans this week to slash more than 60 regulations — including eliminating overtime and minimum wage protections for home health care workers and union organizing rights for migrant farmworkers.

The effort to deregulate the federal agency that governs workers’ rights and protections aims to deliver on President Donald Trump’s promise to “restore American prosperity,” the agency said.

“The Department of Labor is proud to lead the way by eliminating unnecessary regulations that stifle growth and limit opportunity,” Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer said in a statement.

A rash of changes are being proposed at the Labor Department’s workplace health and safety agencies. Those include ….changes to rules that give labor officials the ability to penalize employers for failing to maintain a safe workplace.

The rule changes follow an executive order in January that directed agency leaders to cut 10 existing rules, regulations or guidance documents for every new one created…

The administration also has plans to rescind an Obama-era rule that granted minimum wage and overtime pay to millions of in-home care workers…

The agency also plans to revoke a Biden-era regulation protecting union organizing for seasonal farmworkers who are in the United States through the H-2A visa program….