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Solis Responds to GAO Critique of DOL’s Wage & Hour Enforcement
If you missed it, the Government Accountability Office issued a report of its investigation into the Department of Labor’s enforcement of wage and hour laws (that’s overtime and minimum wage stuff, mostly). It was not complimentary.
Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis has responded. Full text of the press release inside.
Senate Confirms Solis as Labor Secretary
After weeks of delay that had very little to do with her, and very much to do with Politics (capital P), the Senate finally approved Hilda Solis as Secretary of Labor.
Her pro-union stances and affiliations had become a lightning rod for Republicans hoping to land the first blow in the battle over broad revisions to the National Labor Relations Act.
Solis Clears Panel – New Sec. of Labor Before President’s Day?
Hilda Solis, the California Congresswoman who has had to go by “President Obama’s pick for Secretary of Labor” for a good two months now, just got one step closer to leading the DOL today when the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee voted to approve sending her name to the floor for a vote.
THE NEW LEADERS | Meet Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor
Barack Obama has named Congresswoman Hilda Solis his pick for Secretary of Labor. The choice is a confirmation of the President-elect’s committment to the unions that helped him win, but it also sends a clear message about how high employment issues as a whole are on his list of priorities.
U.S. Unemployment: 7.2%
According to Labor Department unemployment numbers released this morning, 524,000 workers lost their jobs last month. That puts the national unemployment rate at 7.2%, the highest its been in 15 years.