Lobbyists for restaurants, hotels and other franchised businesses spent the last several years fighting the Obama administration on one regulation after another. Like Obama, Trump speaks often of forgotten workers whose pay has stagnated, but so far his prescription for improving their lot mainly involves unfettering their employers. Weil likens them to a “get-out-of-jail-free card” for employers, and the Obama administration did not issue them. Carlo Allegri/Reuters Donald Trump has rolled back many of the Obama-era regulations that drove employer groups batty. “They are certainly losers under the Trump administration.” One potential beneficiary of the new board is McDonald’s.

Source: Huffington Post August 05, 2017 11:03 UTC