Paul DeCamp, Member of the Firm in the Employment, Labor & Workforce Management practice, in the firm’s Washington, DC, office, was quoted in POLITICO, in “Business Groups Wary of Trump’s Pro-Union Labor Secretary Pick,” by Nick Niedzwiadek.
Following is an excerpt:
Employers worried about President-elect Donald Trump’s unconventional pick to lead the Labor Department are working behind the scenes to ensure they have business-friendly contacts at other key offices in the agency and elsewhere in the administration.
They’re submitting names to transition staff for other top posts at the department, including regulators like the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, that would ease their concerns over Trump’s intention to nominate Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore.), whose support for some prominent union-friendly legislation has alarmed business interests. …
The maneuvering underscores how eager businesses are to turn the corner on what they see as the Biden administration’s baldly pro-union, anti-employer tilt on issues ranging from overtime pay to heat exposure protections for workers. While Chavez-DeRemer may turn out to be a strong ally in what is expected to be a very pro-business Trump White House, they want some assurances.
“We need to have a much better understanding of her policy views in a detailed way, beyond just the PRO Act,” said Paul DeCamp, who led DOL’s Wage and Hour Division under President George W. Bush. “If she ends up being a fairly traditional secretary of Labor, then I think you would expect to see, for lack of a better term, the usual cast of characters.”
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