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The Labor Department’s first regulatory roadmap under Trump’s second term briefly appeared online before being removed, revealing a wide deregulatory agenda. The plan included revisiting joint employer standards, rolling back Biden-era rules on worker classification, and rewriting retirement investment regulations such as fiduciary standards and ESG investing. Worker safety proposals, including heat stress protections, remain under review, while seasonal farmworker wage rules and visa processes are also targeted for revision. Missing from the agenda were overtime pay thresholds and mental health parity rules, leaving uncertainty over how far Trump’s rollback efforts will go.