Project 2025's Goals For the Department of Labor & Other Related Industries

What is Project 2025?

Project 2025 is a presidential transition project to set the country on a path that resists leftist values. The goal is to promote the nuclear family, all states' self-governance, improve our military, and protect our “God-given” constitutional rights. Section 3 is titled “The General Welfare” and starts off with the goal of managing our national debt. It immediately discusses medicare and medicaid reform, as the authors know it is a hot topic. The author, Daren Bakst, is a Director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and Environment at the Heritage Foundation. The Heritage Foundation is a non-profit organization that supports the implementation of conservative policy. They have funded this entire report.

The Project's Goals for the DoL:

Daren Bakst claims that all policies pertaining to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion should be reversed. Racial classifications should be eliminated and a law should be passed to ban the use of tax dollars to fund critical race theory training. Data collection statistics based on race and ethnicity should no longer be collected by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and regulations prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, and sex characteristics should be rescinded.  Pro-life ideals should be promoted in the workplace and the Working Families Flexibility Act, which “allows employees in the private sector the ability to choose between receiving time-and-a-half pay or accumulating time-and-a-half paid time off (586)” should be enacted. On-site childcare should also be incentivized. 

Worker salaries and benefits should be revisited, such as the Overtime Pay Threshold, and Bakst recommends that congress institute a communal rest day (Sunday) where workers must be paid time-and-a-half if they work. The Save Local Business Act should also be put into law since this will “codify the long-standing definition that has existed outside the Obama-era and Biden-proposed rules (590).” He asserts that labor agencies should give compliance recommendations to help businesses and exempt small businesses from the Regulatory Flexibility Act (when possible). The administration should invest in a government apprenticeship program (and encourage the participation of religious organizations), reduce restrictions on underage, remove the Bachelor’s requirement for federal jobs, and eventually phase out the H-2A visa program.