The Policy Week in Review, prepared by Littler’s Workplace Policy Institute (WPI), sets forth WPI’s updates on federal legislation, regulations, and congressional activity affecting the workplace.

Senate HELP Committee Postpones Vote on Labor Secretary Nominee Keith Sonderling

Because of Committee member attendance issues, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) was forced to postpone its vote this week to advance the nomination of Keith Sonderling to be the secretary of labor. The Committee is now scheduled to hold an executive session on Thursday, July 30 at 9:45am ET to vote on Sonderling’s nomination and other agenda items.

DOL/WHD Issues New Opinion Letters

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) issued two new opinion letters this week addressing the application of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to specific issues arising from employee commuter travel. According to the WHD’s announcement, the letters include the following:

• FLSA2026-9: Whether mid-day travel between an employee’s home and work office is worktime that an employer must record and pay for under the FLSA, where the employee performs work at both locations and the mid-day travel is offered as a voluntary alternative to unpaid commuter travel that would otherwise occur before or after the employee’s workday. For Littler’s analysis, read here.
• FLSA2026-10: Whether time spent by an employee receiving pages, calling clients and other workers to...

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