From the Federal Register: 2021 Joe Biden Executive Orders

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What is the Federal Register?

The Federal Register (FR or sometimes Fed. Reg.) is the official journal of the federal government of the United States that contains government agency rules, proposed rules, and public notices. It is published every weekday, except on federal holidays. The final rules promulgated by a federal agency and published in the Federal Register are ultimately reorganized by topic or subject matter and codified in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), which is updated annually.

The Federal Register is compiled by the Office of the Federal Register (within the National Archives and Records Administration) and is printed by the Government Publishing Office. There are no copyright restrictions on the Federal Register; as a work of the U.S. government, it is in the public domain.

What is an Executive Order?

An executive order is a means of issuing federal directives in the United States, used by the President of the United States, that manages operations of the federal government.[1] The legal or constitutional basis for executive orders has multiple sources. Article Two of the United States Constitution gives the president broad executive and enforcement authority to use his or her discretion to determine how to enforce the law or to otherwise manage the resources and staff of the executive branch. The ability to make such orders is also based on expressed or implied Acts of Congress that delegate to the president some degree of discretionary power (delegated legislation).

Here is a related news story: 

From Roll Call: Biden to target noncompete clauses, wage collusion. Details of competition policy executive order are being unveiled piecemeal.

President Joe Biden wants to make it more difficult for employers to collude to suppress wages — the latest piece of a sweeping executive order on competition policy that is being unveiled in pieces by the White House during a generally quiet Fourth of July holiday week.

The executive order will include language pushing the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission to try to curb collaboration on wage rates between competing employers, according to a person familiar with the order. Such practices can be used to suppress wages.

Brian Deese, the director of the National Economic Council, said in a series of tweets Wednesday that the intention is to make sure that employers do not share with one another wage data with one another that is not also available to employees.

Deese said that when markets are healthy “employers compete for labor, giving workers more opportunity to earn better wages and benefits.” He also said that obstacles “to this kind of competition have grown across time” and that Biden “will act to go at those barriers directly.”

The order will include a focus on limiting noncompete clauses in employment contracts, as well as limiting burdensome occupational licensing regulations.