Sentences with phrase «labor secretary under»

Washington DC (WBEN / AP)- Democrats have a new national party chairman and it's Tom Perez, who was labor secretary under President Barack Oback.

Tyler said that DNC Chairman Tom Perez, as former labor secretary under President Obama, «fought for these values day in and day out for years.»

Not exact matches

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said the program will «level the playing field for law - abiding employers and ensure that employees receive the protections to which they are entitled under federal and state law.»

Since then Latinos have had a presence in Democratic and Republican administrations from Surgeon General Antonia Novello, under Bush, to Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, under Obama.

Trump's labor secretary pick Andrew Puzder is under fire again today, this time for hiring an undocumented housekeeper.

The current head of the FAA, Michael Huerta, will remain in his seat until 2018, but Trump plans to nominate Elaine Chao, who previously served as the secretary of labor under the Bush administration, to lead the Department of Transportation.

Authority: 29 U.S.C. 1002 (2), 1002 (21), 1002 (37), 1002 (38), 1002 (40), 1031, and 1135; Secretary of Labor's Order No. 1 - 2011, 77 FR 1088 (Jan. 9, 2012); Secs. 2510.3 - 21, 2510.3 - 101 and 2510.3 - 102 also issued under sec. 102 of Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 1978, 5 U.S.C. App.

One big concern: Giving investors the right to sue could have «a chilling effect on people giving advice,» says Ann Combs, head of government relations at Vanguard Group and a former assistant secretary of labor under Pres. George W. Bush.

The Secretary of Labor, Elizabeth Dole, garnered huge publicity for launching «sweeps» by armies of investigators checking up on employers who hire the under - aged.

A project of the State Game and Fish Department, it was built with penitentiary labor and installed under the authority of the New Mexico Secretary of State, who handles such official items as the state's official flower (yucca), official mammal (black bear) and official fish (cutthroat trout).

Two prominent Democrats under consideration to be Hillary Clinton's running mate — Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez and Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio — attacked Republican Donald Trump on trade policy Sunday while defending their own past positions.

Other potential Clinton VP picks under discussion include: Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, former governors from the key state of Virginia; Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, who represents both a more liberal wing of the party and a swing state; and Thomas E. Perez, President Obama's labor secretary and a Hispanic civil rights lawyer.

Cuomo, a Democrat, specifically noted that Ben Carson, the nominee to lead the department of Housing and Urban Development — which Cuomo helmed in the 1990s under Bill Clinton — had no experience in either housing or urban development and that Andrew Kuzder, the nominee for labor secretary, opposed raising the federal minimum wage.

Frances Perkins was the first woman to hold a U.S. cabinet post when she served as secretary of labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s.

Chao, who served as Secretary of Labor under former President George W. Bush, is married to Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

-- The Secretary shall publish notice of the benefits available under this part to workers covered by each certification made under subsection (d) in newspapers of general circulation in the areas in which such workers reside and shall make such information available on the website of the Department of Labor.

(d) The Secretary is authorized to make contracts or jointly financed cooperative arrangements with employers and organizations for the establishment of projects designed to prepare handicapped individuals for gainful and suitable employment in the competitive labor market under which handicapped individuals are provided training and employment in a realistic work setting and such other services (determined in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary) as may be necessary for such individuals to continue to engage in such employment.

In order to achieve the purposes of this Act, the Secretary of Labor shall carry on a continuing program of education and information, under which he may, among other measures,

Robert B. Reich, the Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton and the author of Supercapitalism, recently released a novel called Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future.

Mrs. Korologos served as U.S. Secretary of Labor under President Ronald Reagan from 1987 - 1989.

Newly elected DNC Chair Thomas Perez — shown here in June 2016 as the secretary of the Labor Department under President Obama — says Democrats need a «50 - state strategy» to defeat Republicans at all levels of government.

-- The Secretary shall publish notice of the benefits available under this part to workers covered by each certification made under subsection (d) in newspapers of general circulation in the areas in which such workers reside and shall make such information available on the website of the Department of Labor.

A Labor Secretary nominee who withdrew under charges of unethical conduct.

He served as the spokesman for the Labor Department's Mine Safety and Health Administration under Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush and joined the Energy Department during the Clinton Administration, where he says he was affectionately known as Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary's «coal hack.»

In this hour, we'll travel Down Under to see a growing climate movement that is as diverse as it is, visiting a primary school where climate action is on the agenda and hearing from Sharan Burrow, general secretary, International Trade Union Confederation, about labor's vital role in the climate fight.

The Fair Labor Standards Act has strict rules for who can and who can not be salaried exempt (that is, not eligible for overtime), and at first glance truck drivers don't seem to meet those criteria, but it turns out that labor law exempts employees who fall under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Transportation through the Motor Carrier Act of Labor Standards Act has strict rules for who can and who can not be salaried exempt (that is, not eligible for overtime), and at first glance truck drivers don't seem to meet those criteria, but it turns out that labor law exempts employees who fall under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Transportation through the Motor Carrier Act of labor law exempts employees who fall under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Transportation through the Motor Carrier Act of 1935.