Sentences with phrase «us labor secretary»

In addition to the president, the Coalition has booked a number of Trump administration officials, including Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and White House Director of Policy and Interagency Coordination Carlos Rosillo.

In mid-May, U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez brought the parties back to the negotiating table.

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.

Linda Chavez, nominated for labor secretary by President George W. Bush in 2001, allowed a Guatemalan woman who was in the US illegally to live in her home and gave her spending money.

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich provides two compelling reasons that organizations should share financial success with their employees: First, if you want to attract and keep talent, you have to pay for it.

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

Trump's choice to be Labor Secretary, Andrew Puzder, has seen his own confirmation indefinitely postponed in the Senate amidst delays with his ethics paperwork.

Supporters believe that this financial turnaround makes Puzder the perfect pick for labor secretary.

Legal experts say the Labor Department likely will have to undertake a formal rulemaking process in order to delay the rule's implementation — a process that can not happen overnight, and that may be further delayed by the lack of a permanent Labor Secretary.

With ports near gridlock and cargo delays being felt throughout the U.S. commercial supply chain, U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez plans to travel to San Francisco on Tuesday to help broker an agreement on a new contract between dockworkers and the group representing shippers and terminal operators.

Raj Nayak, director of research with the National Employment Law Project, previously served as deputy chief of staff to former Labor Secretary Tom Perez.

«Americans are sick and tired of the playing field not being level,» Tom Perez, U.S. Labor Secretary, said last Friday.

Even so, «the fact of the matter is that in today's job market there are only two tracks — the fast track and the slow track,» says Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary and the author of a new book called Super-capitalism.

The U.S. Labor Department will implement its fiduciary rule on June 9 with no further delays, U.S. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta said on Tuesday.

On Tuesday, she warned acting Labor Secretary Edward Hugler that a delay would amount to «a slap in the face» to firms that have invested in complying with the rule, reports ThinkAdvisor.

«Boeing and Airbus are catching up with the rest of manufacturing,» said Robert Reich, a professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and former labor secretary in the Clinton Administration.

Labor Secretary Thomas Perez has stated publicly that they have taken all input seriously and «have made changes.»

«Every rule we take, people threaten us with litigation,» Labor Secretary Thomas Perez told reporters on the sidelines of the event to announce release of the final rule at the Center for American Progress in Washington.

Labor Secretary Thomas Perez has stated that DOL's rule is «built upon solid statutory and legal foundations, and we will defend it vigorously.»

WASHINGTON - With his choice of restaurant executive Andrew Puzder to serve as his Labor secretary, President - elect Donald Trump has now tapped six big donors and fundraisers to serve in his administration, lining up an unprecedented concentration of...

Right after CKE Restaurants CEO Andy Puzder was nominated for Labor Secretary on December 8th, both of its fast food chains — Hardee's and Carl's Jr. — lost perception ground.

«This is really part of a broader conversation across America about what a 21st - century social compact should look like,» Thomas E. Perez, the labor secretary, said in an interview.

Thomas E. Perez, the former Maryland labor secretary nominated to lead the U.S. Department of Labor, faced pointed questions at his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday about whether politics influenced his decisions as the top civil rights attorney in...

WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans, including Maryland Rep. Andy Harris, stepped up their criticism of Labor Secretary nominee Tom Perez on Tuesday, amplifying their concerns a day before the former state official faces a Senate committee vote on his...

But Labor Secretary Thomas Perez has argued that any legal challenges to torpedo the rule would fail.

The Department of Labor's long - awaited final fiduciary rule «ensures that putting clients first is no longer a marketing slogan, it's the law,» Labor Secretary Thomas Perez told reporters on a Tuesday afternoon call to announce completion of DOL's rule to amend the definition of fiduciary on retirement advice.

Labor Secretary Thomas Perez vowed Thursday to «vigorously» defend DOL's fiduciary rule from the lawsuit filed the same day by financial services trade groups and several Texas groups that seeks to vacate the rule.

Labor Secretary Thomas Perez said Friday that the Department of Labor «has worked very closely» with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the redraft of its rule to amend the definition of fiduciary on retirement accounts.

Fast - food workers protest Trump's labor secretary nominee Reuters Lisa Baertlein and Sarah N. Lynch January 12, 2017 Also seen in: Newsweek, 610KDAL, America Now

In 2002, local media reported that he warned off mine safety inspectors with this line: «Mitch McConnell calls me one of the five finest men in America, and the last I checked, he was sleeping with your boss,» referring to Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, the senator's wife.

As ThinkAdvisor's Melanie Waddell has reported, President Donald Trump is expected to issue an order directing the DOL to delay its fiduciary rule by six months or a year and has appointed an acting secretary of Labor while confirmation hearings for his chosen Labor secretary, Andrew Puzder, have been delayed.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren urged Acting Labor Secretary Edward Hugler on Tuesday not to delay the April 10 implementation date of Labor's fiduciary rule as it would be «a slap in the face» to financial services companies that have already invested in compliance.

Fast - food workers file 33 complaints against companies run by Trump's labor secretary pick Mic Jack Smith IV January 26, 2017

That's why we've included on this year's list the SEC's enforcement chief, Andrew Ceresney, Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard's Knut Rostad, consumer advocate Barbara Roper, securities attorney Tom Giachetti and the aforementioned Mr. Schweiss.

Following release of the final memorandum on Friday, acting Labor Secretary Ed Hugler, in a statement, said, «The Department of Labor will now consider its legal options to delay the applicability date as we comply with the president's memorandum.»

But after careful consideration, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta confirmed that the rule would be phased in beginning June 9.

Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta announced Monday night that he will not delay the controversial fiduciary rule any further.

Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta confirmed the rule's implementation on Monday in a Wall Street Journal op - ed.

This summer, with all the good letters already taken, the former labor secretary Robert Reich wrote on his blog that the recovery might actually be shaped like an X (the imagery is elusive, but Reich's argument was that there can be no recovery until we find an entirely new model of economic growth).

The day - long summit boasted a premier lineup of executives, business experts and elected officials including: U.S. Labor Secretary R. Alexander Acosta; U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao; Dan Bryant, Senior VP of Walmart's Global Public Government Affairs; U.S. Rep. Lou Correa (CA - 46); Senator Orrin Hatch (R - UT); U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros - Lehtinen (FL - 27); Alia Moses, United States District Judge for the Western District of Texas; Mary Ann Gomez Orta, President and CEO of the Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute; C.E. Tee Rowe, President and CEO of America's Small Business Development Centers and many more.

Trump scrambled to nominate R. Alexander Acosta as labor secretary after fast food executive Andrew F. Puzder withdrew his nomination.

The last point is one that is being pushed hard by Labor Secretary Robert Reich and may be an important part of the Clinton reelection campaign.

The 25 - page lawsuit named the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; and the U.S. Department of Labor and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis as defendants.

Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison and former Obama Administration Labor Secretary Tom Perez have emerged as the front - runners for the job.

But at the same time, the WFP sought to not alienate DNC Chairman Tom Perez, the former labor secretary who this weekend defeated Rep. Keith Ellison to lead the Democratic National Committee.

If confirmed, we will hold Mr. Acosta accountable as labor secretary and do whatever it takes to make sure that our voices are heard loud and clear in Washington,» said Aiesha Meadows McLaurin, a Burger King worker, in a statement released by the Fight For $ 15 group.

The two men have worked together since 2013 when Perez took over as Labor Secretary for the Obama administration.

Ellison, who had lost his bid for DNC chairman against former Labor Secretary Tom Perez, had drawn the ire last week of liberal activists in New York when he posed for a selfie with IDC Sen. Marisol Alcantara.

David Griffiths, former executive director of a Bronx nonprofit and ex-law partner of state Labor Secretary Peter Rivera, will spend five months in prison for mail fraud, making false statements to the government and obstruction of justice.