Trump’s Labor Pick: The Best Clown in the Cabinet Clown Car?
Labor advocates may not be dancing in the streets, but they at least seem to be emitting a small (very…
UPDATE: OSHA, the Department of Labor and the Shut Down
Life at the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are in chaos with a growing number…
Happy Birthday Frances Perkins Building
Happy Birthday! Forty-four years ago today, on October 18, 1974, President Gerald R. Ford and Secretary Peter J. Brennan laid…
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Fall 2018 Regulatory Agenda: No Surprises
Lots happening these days: the grizzly murder of a Saudi journalist, baseball championships (Go Dodgers!!), mid-term elections, Presidential temper tantrums…
FY 2019 OSHA Budget Is Here: Good News, But More Work to be Done
Happy New Year!!! Hope you’re not still hung over from celebrating the dawn of Fiscal Year 2019. Well wake up,…
Today’s Bad Idea: Merge Labor and Education Departments
The Trump administration today proposed to merge the Department of Labor into the Department of Education. While some have suggested…
We won’t see their like again…
Although the sad news has been known to many of us for a while, Bloomberg Law officially announced the retirements…
Dreaming of Acosta Being Kicked Upstairs?
OK, it’s the weekend, so we can kick back and gossip and spread rumors. If you read last Monday’s Punching…
My Trip to the Department of Labor
I had the pleasure of attending the unveiling of former Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis’s official portrait yesterday. Nancy Pelosi,…
Game Time: Which One of These Is Different From the Others?
These are some of the members of the US Department of Labor Hall of Honor. Which of these is different…