The United States Department of Labor (DOL) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government. It is responsible for the administration of federal laws governing occupational safety and health,wage and hour standards,unemployment benefits,reemployment services,and occasionally,economic statistics. It is headed by the Secretary of Labor,who reports directly to the President of the United States and is a member of the president's Cabinet.
Elaine Lan Chao is an American businesswoman and former government official. A member of the Republican Party,she served as the 18th United States secretary of transportation in the Trump administration from 2017 to 2021,and as the 24th United States secretary of labor in the George W. Bush administration from 2001 to 2009. Chao was the first Asian American woman ever to serve in a presidential cabinet.
Henry Dargan McMaster is an American politician and attorney serving as the 117th governor of South Carolina since January 24,2017. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Eugene Scalia is an American attorney who is a partner at Gibson Dunn. He served as the United States secretary of labor during the final 16 months of the Donald Trump administration. Scalia previously served one year as solicitor of the Department of Labor during the George W. Bush administration. He is a son of the late Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia.
Naomi Churchill Earp is an American lawyer and government official from Maryland and Virginia. From 2007 to 2009 she served as chair of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,where she established the Youth At Work Program. She was designated by President George W. Bush in 2006,succeeding Cari M. Dominguez. Prior to her appointment as Chair,she had served as vice chair of the commission since 2003.
NimrataNikkiHaley is an American diplomat and politician who served as the 116th and first female governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017,and as the 29th United States ambassador to the United Nations for two years,from January 2017 to January 2019.
Thomas Edward Perez is an American politician and attorney who served as the Chair of the Democratic National Committee from February 2017 until January 2021. Perez was previously Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights (2009–2013) and United States Secretary of Labor (2013–2017). He was a GU Politics Fellow at the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service in 2021.
Andrew Franklin Puzder is an American attorney,author,and businessman. He is the former chief executive officer of CKE Restaurants,the parent company of Hardee's and Carl's Jr.,a position he held from September 2000 to March 2017. He was previously a commercial trial lawyer in private practice from 1978 to 1995 who handled many high-profile cases and was active in the anti-abortion movement.
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 29 U.S.C. § 203 (FLSA) is a United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage,and "time-and-a-half" overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week. It also prohibits employment of minors in "oppressive child labor". It applies to employees engaged in interstate commerce or employed by an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce,unless the employer can claim an exemption from coverage. The Act was enacted by the 75th Congress and signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938.
Timothy Eugene Scott is an American politician and businessman. He has served as the junior United States senator for South Carolina since 2013. A Republican,Scott was appointed to the U.S. Senate by Governor Nikki Haley in 2013. He retained his seat after winning a special election in 2014 and was elected to a full term in 2016.
Donald Trump assumed office as President of the United States on January 20,2017,and his term ended on January 20,2021. The president has the authority to nominate members of his Cabinet to the United States Senate for confirmation under the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution.
Victoria Ann Lipnic is an American lawyer and public figure. She served in multiple senior United States government positions. She was Commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC),nominated to two terms by President Barack Obama,2010 –2020.) She served as Chair (Acting) of the EEOC under President Donald J. Trump from 2017 –2019. Prior to her appointments to the EEOC,she was Assistant Secretary of Labor under President George W. Bush. The United States Senate confirmed her unanimously to each of these positions.
Catherine Templeton is an American attorney and political figure from South Carolina. She was a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor of South Carolina in the 2018 election. Templeton is the former Director of the South Carolina Department of Labor,Licensing,and Regulation in the Cabinet of Governor Nikki Haley.
Heather MacDougall is an American lawyer and former government official who currently serves as the vice president of worldwide employee health and safety for Amazon. She was a member of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC) from 2014 until 2019. She served as the acting chair of OSHRC from January 2017 until her resignation in March 2019. MacDougall was first nominated to the post by President Barack Obama and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate in March 2014. In April 2017,President Donald Trump nominated her to continue as a commissioner for a second term. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate for an additional term on the OSHRC on August 3,2017. She resigned from OSHRC in March 2019 in order to join Amazon.
Patrick Pizzella is an American government official who has served as the 36th United States Deputy Secretary of Labor from April 17,2018 to January 20,2021. He was formerly a member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority appointed by President Barack Obama. He held positions in several agencies during four prior Administrations. In 2019,after the resignation of Alexander Acosta,Pizzella served as the acting United States Secretary of Labor for more than 2 months.
Eric Stefan Dreiband is an American lawyer. While a partner at Jones Day,he was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. The Senate confirmed his appointment on October 11,2018.
Keith E. Sonderling is an American lawyer and government official. He currently serves as a Commissioner on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,previously serving as Vice Chair. He was confirmed by the Senate on September 22,2020 by a vote of 52–41. Prior to the EEOC,he served as the Acting and Deputy Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the United States Department of Labor. Before joining the government in 2017,he practiced Labor and Employment Law at the Florida-based Gunster Law Firm in West Palm Beach,Florida.
The political positions of Nikki Haley have been reported from her career in the South Carolina House of Representatives,during her 2011–2017 governorship,from her books Can't Is Not an Option and With All Due Respect,and during her tenure as United States Ambassador to the United Nations from January 2017 until the very end of 2018. Some of these policy positions have changed,while others remain unchanged.
Bryan L. Jarrett is an American attorney and former government official. He served as the Acting and Deputy Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the United States Department of Labor from October 2017 to January 2019. Prior to joining the Wage and Hour Division,Jarrett was a labor and employment attorney at Morgan,Lewis &Bockius and Jones Day. He also clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Jarrett graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. from Brigham Young University and graduated with Pro Bono Distinction and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.
David Weil is an American academic and economist who was the nominee to serve as administrator of the Wage and Hour Division at the United States Department of Labor in the Biden administration. He previously served in this role during the Obama administration from 2014 to 2017.
