Trump’s DOL Pledges Greater Scrutiny of Companies With Labor-Market Dominance

US Labor Department enforcers plan heightened scrutiny of powerful companies that dominate labor markets, the agency’s top attorney told staff in a Thursday memo.

“The Office of the Solicitor must focus its limited enforcement resources on the most impactful cases against the most significant offenders: the Big, the Bad, and the Ugly,” Solicitor of Labor Jonathan Berry wrote to regional attorneys. Along with cases involving significant numbers of employees, Berry said, “we will give greater scrutiny to employers whose market power permits them to dominate their respective labor markets in ways that can facilitate employment-law violations.”