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Minimum wages among US workplace rules facing axe
The New Indian Express Bengaluru
|July 23, 2025
The US 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.
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If approved, the wide-ranging changes unveiled this month also would affect working conditions at construction sites and in mines, and limit the government's ability to penalize employers if workers are injured or killed while engaging in inherently risky activities such as movie stunts or animal training.
This story is from the July 23, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Bengaluru.
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