DOL Getting It Right On Regulation
Perez, in his first three months on the job, has overseen new rules on wages, hiring and chemical exposure, some of which had been bogged down by years of delay.
What’s even more impressive is some of the praise he has been getting.
But the rules have drawn praise from Republicans who said Labor’s measured approach would improve employment among veterans and the disabled — groups with high jobless rates — while also taking concerns from business groups into consideration.
“The Labor Department’s rule-making process should be a model for how government can work with stakeholders in crafting regulations that are practical and effective,” former Homeland Security Secretary and GOP Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge wrote in an op-ed published this month in The Wall Street Journal.
Getting bipartisan praise these days on any subject is quite an accomplishment. Getting it on regulation is almost Herculean.
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By: Stuart Shapiro
Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.