Paul DeCamp, Member of the Firm in the Employment, Labor & Workforce Management practice, in the firm’s Washington, DC, office, was quoted in the Bloomberg Law Daily Labor Report in “Punching In: Labor Department Tries to Shake Off Shutdown Rust," by Parker Purifoy and Ian Kullgren.
The following is an excerpt:
Many Labor Department workers had technical issues starting their computers as they tried to get back to work after weeks of furlough, a DOL employee said. The technical difficulties delayed the work of some staffers. …
The DOL will have its hands full as workers get back up to speed.
Field personnel with enforcement duties will likely focus first on identifying new cases and disputes that have come to the department and prioritizing the most urgent ones, said Paul DeCamp, a wage and hour attorney with Epstein Becker Green and former administrator of the Wage and Hour Division under President George W. Bush.
The other agencies will be “assessing whether any goals have changed or any projects have become more or less pressing over the past several weeks,” he said.
