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: Trump’s Labor Department Picks Await Senate’s Return,” by Rebecca Rainey and Parker Purifoy. (Read the full version – subscription required.)
Following is an excerpt:
The Senate has a lengthy labor to-do list when it returns from August recess—10 nominees are pending for key enforcement positions at the US Labor Department. …
Attorneys say Trump’s decision to place former DOL officials atop the agency is key to its momentum despite the vacuum of leadership within its subagencies, and that officials aren’t waiting for nominees to get confirmed to advance its policy goals.
“This administration is not like a brand new administration,” said Paul DeCamp, a management-side attorney at Epstein Becker & Green. Deputy Secretary Keith Sonderling is “very familiar” with the agency’s limits when it comes to guidance and enforcement policies from his experience leading the WHD during Trump’s first administration and at other federal agencies, he added.
“That really gives the department a leg up on acting quickly in a way that it usually takes a new administration a year, year and a half, to kind of figure things out. They don’t have that learning curve now,” DeCamp said.
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