{"id":28639,"date":"2025-01-18T23:25:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T07:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/trump-names-former-eeoc-commissioner-keith-sonderling-deputy-labor-secretary\/"},"modified":"2025-01-18T23:25:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T07:25:30","slug":"trump-names-former-eeoc-commissioner-keith-sonderling-deputy-labor-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/trump-names-former-eeoc-commissioner-keith-sonderling-deputy-labor-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump names former EEOC Commissioner Keith Sonderling deputy labor secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>Dive Brief:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>President-elect Donald Trump has <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/113830524777312896\" target=\"_blank\">chosen Keith Sonderling<\/a> to serve as the new deputy labor secretary, he announced via a post Wednesday on Truth Social. In the new role, Sonderling, a Republican former commissioner on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission whose term ended in August, would hold the No. 2 spot at the U.S. Department of Labor.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>To secure the appointment, Sonderling will have to be approved by the Republican-led U.S. Senate.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe deputy secretary of labor serves as the de facto chief operating officer of the DOL,\u201d according to a blog post by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littler.com\/publication-press\/publication\/former-eeoc-commissioner-and-acting-whd-administrator-keith-sonderling\" target=\"_blank\">employment law firm Littler<\/a>, managing the heads of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Wage and Hour Division and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Dive Insight:<\/h3>\n<p>Trump previously nominated <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrdive.com\/news\/trump-nominates-rep-lori-chavez-deremer-for-secretary-of-labor\/733665\/\" target=\"_blank\">former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, R-Ore.<\/a>, for secretary of labor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeith will work with our great Nominee for Secretary of Labor, Lori Chavez-Deremer, to put our Country and Workers FIRST,\u201d Trump wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sonderling shared the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/keith-sonderling_thank-you-president-trump-for-nominating-activity-7285169040321314816-6FJz?utm_source=social_share_sheet&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop_web\" target=\"_blank\">news of his nomination on LinkedIn<\/a>, writing, \u201cThank you, President Trump, for nominating me to be the Deputy Secretary of Labor.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prior to serving on the EEOC, Sonderling served as the acting and deputy administrator of the DOL\u2019s wage and hour division. He also taught <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.law.gwu.edu\/keith-e-sonderling\" target=\"_blank\">employment discrimination<\/a> at The George Washington University Law School.<\/p>\n<p>Authors of the Littler post characterized Sonderling as a \u201ccomplementary pick\u201d to Trump\u2019s \u201clabor-friendly\u201d DOL secretary nominee, and said he was \u201cexpected to bring more balance at top levels of DOL leadership.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sonderling also likely will use opinion letters to provide compliance guidance, will address technology-related business concerns and will support independent contractors and the gig economy, Littler said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/news\/trump-names-keith-sonderling-deputy-labor-secretary-eeoc\/737549\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Dive Brief: President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Keith Sonderling to serve as the new deputy labor secretary, he announced &#8230; <a title=\"Trump names former EEOC Commissioner Keith Sonderling deputy labor secretary\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/trump-names-former-eeoc-commissioner-keith-sonderling-deputy-labor-secretary\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump names former EEOC Commissioner Keith Sonderling deputy labor secretary\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[457],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-dive","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}