Mealey's ( April 6, 2021, 11:30 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — Trade groups that together with the former U.S. secretary of Labor who was appointed under President Donald J. Trump appealed a trial court’s ruling for various states deeming the portions of the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) final rule revising its regulations interpreting vertical joint employer liability as “arbitrary and capricious,” in conflict with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and “flawed in just about every respect” filed an opposition on April 5 to the recently appointed secretary’s motion to hold the appeal in abeyance....