Punching In: Labor Department Eyes Trade Wages, Union Oversight

Ben Penn: Let’s take a spin around the Labor Department’s regulatory docket, as agencies ramp up efforts to close the book on pending rules during President Donald Trump’s first term:

Trade Enforcement: The Wage and Hour Division slipped into its budget proposal last week the first public notice that it will be implementing a small but crucial portion of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. It concerns the “Labor Value Content” provision in the trade deal’s chapter on Rules of Origin. This new mandate, which applies specifically to the automobile industry, gives a passenger car tariff-free treatment only if 40% of its content is produced in North American plants by workers earning an average wage of at least $16 per hour.

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