U.S. Department of Labor is expected to release a burst of new regulations has been blocked for months, has now been confirmed that Thomas Perez lead agency.
Business leaders are preparing more aggressive enforcement agenda, and labor leaders called on workers' rights champion Perez.
Some long-awaited rules will help to promote employment, veterans and people with disabilities, family health workers to increase wages and workplace exposure to hazardous silica dust set new limits.
Other more controversial actions that can help organize movements and trade unions, let the union cadres to participate in non-healing enterprise security checks.
In many cases, the rules have been shelved until two years or more, election year politics and Labour Minister Shimon Peres as the installation delay stagnation.
 



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