A run-down of Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s positions on various social issues and the danger his appointment could pose to everything from the Department of Labor to the Environmental Protection Agency and even Roe v. Wade.
Keith Ellison is calling into question a Trump-led Department of Labor scheme to loosen rules around child labor laws.
Teenagers in coal mines. Kids driving forklifts. 17-year-olds operating heavy and dangerous machinery with little training. All of that could be possible under a Trump Labor Department plan to consider relaxing the rules governing child labor. And Rep. Keith Ellison, DFL-Minn., is asking questions – lots of questions. He doesn’t like
President Trump’s executive order on ethics also cites a section of the law that doesn’t exist.
A rule that could get overtime pay for four million workers is in limbo, and Trump will help decide whether it survives.
(ANALYSIS) -- Donald Trump ran for president as the billionaire who would champion working people. As the president-elect put it in one of the major economic speeches of his campaign: "Too many of our leaders have
Unemployment is not 5.5%, and the American public deserves honesty.
People line up at the food pantry at Sacred Heart Community Service on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, in San Jose, Calif. Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Washington, D.C – Obama supporters are citing recent Department of Labor unemployment statistics as proof that the President is improving America’s economy.
The preemption laws against paid sick leave requirements fly in the face of bipartisan public support.
Flying just under the political radar in state politics is the issue of paid sick days. Ten states — Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Wisconsin — have passed preemption laws that ban all
Thomas Perez, who joins the Department of Labor after heading the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, has an excellent track record on workers’ issues.
“Today is my first day as the secretary of labor, and I couldn't be more eager to get down to work,” newly appointed Labor Secretary Thomas Perez said last week.
Perez is the first and only Latino appointed to President Obama's
