President
elect Trump’s daughter Ivanka repeatedly promised during the Trump campaign to
fight for equal pay rights for women in the labor force. The Obama
administration’s EEOC has promulgated a new reporting requirement for all
businesses with over 100 employees, expanding earnings and hours worked
reporting requirements from a 200 cell report to a 4,000 cell report due on the
third quarter EEOC snapshot date. Trump’s Labor Secretary Designee, fast food
executive Andrew Pudzer, on the other hand, is pledged to “save small businesses
from the crushing burdens of unnecessary regulations that are stunting job
growth and suppressing wages.”
According
to Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, Pudzer is “someone who opposes an
increase in the minimum wage, opposes the overtime rule that would raise middle
class wages, and whose businesses have repeatedly violated labor laws,” and
that Trump’s naming Pudzer to the Labor Department post is “the surest sign yet
that the next cabi9net will be looking out for the billionaires and special
interests, instead of America’s working class.” It will be interesting to see
whether the Obama administrations third quarter 2017 wage and hour reporting
requirement will survive, because of Ivanka’s influence, or die in the Pudzer
DOL regulatory environment.
