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Labor Department looking to lighten workplace regulation with sweeping rules changes and repeals

Labor Department looking to lighten workplace regulation with sweeping rules changes and repeals

The U.S. Department of Labor is aiming to rewrite or repeal more than 60 “obsolete” workplace regulations, ranging from minimum wage requirements for home health care workers and people with disabilities to standards governing exposure to harmful substances. If approved, the wide-ranging changes unveiled this month also would affect working conditions at constructions sites and in mines, and limit the …

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