SBA Advocacy Targets ‘Unduly’ Burdensome State Worker Protection Laws

The Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Advocacy is highlighting to the Justice Department (DOJ) worker protection laws in Washington state and Oregon that it says “impose significant burdens on small businesses” and should be preempted as part of a broader Trump administration effort to target such laws. The office’s discussion of the state laws, in Oct. 30 comments to DOJ over Washington state’s asbestos rules and Oregon’s worker housing requirements, responds to an Aug. 15 Federal Register notice...