On Friday, fifteen civil and human rights leaders published a letter to José Muñoz, chairman of Nissan North America, urging him to allow workers at the Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi to organize through a free and fair union election. The signatories, in... More »
On Friday, the Trump Administration finally took a position in the Fifth Circuit litigation over the validity of the Obama Administration’s rule to raise the overtime salary threshold to $47,476 from the $23,660 level that has been in place since 2004. On the... More »
President Trump announced one choice for the National Labor Relations Board, William Emanuel. Emmanuel is a partner at Littler Mendelson and has worked with Republicans in Congress and major trade groups from various industries. President Trump has one other p... More »
In his hearing yesterday before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Labor Secretary Alex Acosta announced that DOL’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) will reinstate the practice of providing “opinion letters.” These letters are legal interpretations of the laws t... More »
This post is part of a series on the candidates we understand to be under consideration for Secretary of Labor. Last week, President-elect Donald Trump met with Peter Kirsanow, a management-side employment and labor attorney practicing with Benesch, Friedlande... More »
This post is part of a series on the candidates we understand to be under consideration for Secretary of Labor. President-elect Donald Trump met this weekend with Andrew Puzder, one of his rumored candidates for Secretary of Labor. Like Trump, Puzder is a W... More »
This post is part of a series on the candidates we understand to be under consideration for Secretary of Labor. Scott Walker, the current governor of Wisconsin, is perhaps best known for his vehemently anti-union policies. Walker was first elected governor in ... More »
This post is part of a series on the candidates we understand to be under consideration for Secretary of Labor. Victoria Lipnic, now in her second term as an EEOC Commissioner, was one of the 15 recess appointments President Obama made in the spring of 2010. H... More »
Over the next few days, OnLabor will run a series of backgrounder posts on the candidates we understand to be under consideration for Secretary of Labor. We start today with Victoria Lipnic, an EEOC Commissioner, who according to several published accounts is... More »
Politico has a piece up on possible cabinet nominees. Here’s what they say about Labor: Labor secretary As with many Cabinet posts under Trump, the campaign and transition staff have been looking for a CEO or executive to lead the Labor Department. One ... More »
On Wednesday, March 26, the House Education and the Workforce Committee held a hearing entitled, “Reviewing the President’s Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Proposal for the Department of Labor.” Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez was the only witness called by the Co... More »
Last week, President Obama released his budget request for fiscal year 2015, which included a proposed $200 million increase in funding for the Department of Labor, for a total of $11.8 billion. According to the Department, the request “targets investmen... More »