Trump Administration

Since his inauguration, President Donald Trump has been making changes to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) almost every day.

New NLRB Acting General Counsel

On February 3, 2025, President Donald Trump appointed William B. Cowen as Acting General Counsel of the NLRB. This comes on the heels of the President firing former NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo, Board Member Gwynne Wilcox, and Acting General Counsel Jessica Rutter.… Continue Reading

On January 31, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) confirmed that, effective immediately and applicable to all open Title IX investigations, it will enforce the first Trump administration’s 2020 Title IX regulations (the 2020 Rule), rather than the Biden-era regulations (the 2024 Rule). The reinstated 2020 Rule, inter alia, limits Title IX sexual harassment claims to those based on sex assigned at birth.… Continue Reading

In the ongoing battle over labor policy, the Trump administration has signaled plans to abandon or at least revise its defense of two Biden-Era lawsuits and their underlying initiatives.

The DOL’s Independent Contractor Rule

On January 24, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) request to delay oral arguments set for early February in a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s 2024 rule on classifying workers as independent contractors or employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).… Continue Reading

On Monday, January 27, 2025, the acting head of the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) issued a memo ordering the pause of all federal financial assistance “that may be implicated” by any of President Trump’s recent barrage of Executive Orders. According to the memo, the freeze encompasses funding for activities including, but not limited to, “foreign aid, nongovernmental organizations, DEI, woke gender ideology, and the green new deal.”… Continue Reading