Takeaways

• Nominated to head the DOL Wage and Hour Division, Andrew Rogers would return to the agency after a stint at the EEOC.
• Nominated for DOL solicitor of labor, Jonathan Berry is an attorney in private practice and had authored the DOL chapter of the Project 2025 policy platform, which backs compliance assistance over enforcement.
• If confirmed, they will join newly installed Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer to lead the DOL and employers can expect changes in direction at the agency.

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President Donald Trump has nominated Andrew Rogers to lead the Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) Wage and Hour Division (WHD). He also nominated Jonathan Berry to serve as solicitor of labor.

Trump sent the nominations to the Senate on Mar. 31, 2025. If confirmed, the nominees will join Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, who took the helm at the DOL on Mar. 11.

Andrew Rogers

Trump has tapped Andrew Rogers to lead the WHD, which oversees enforcement of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), laws regulating prevailing wages and other provisions related to federal contracts, and numerous other workplace statutes.

If confirmed, Rogers would come to the post with significant administrative agency experience. During the first Trump Administration, he was a senior advisor in the WHD, where he focused primarily on regulations and opinion letters. (The Trump DOL had a robust practice of publishing FLSA opinion letters, which are useful guidance directives for employers. Opinion letters...

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