Takeaways

• Incoming Wage and Hour Administrator Andrew Rogers will head the DOL division that enforces the FLSA and other key employment statutes.
• Jonathan Berry, DOL’s incoming solicitor of labor, drafted Project 2025’s chapter on the DOL and proposed DOL policy positions.
• The confirmations of Rogers and Berry were part of a broad slate of nominees, including nominees for other key DOL posts, that cleared the Senate.

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The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominees for two key posts at the Department of Labor. Wage and hour administrator nominee Andrew Rogers and solicitor of labor nominee Jonathan Berry cleared the Senate.

Their confirmations were part of a large slate of nominees approved by the Senate by a 51-47 vote on Oct. 7, 2025, including nominees for other high-ranking positions at the DOL’s other sub-agencies. With their confirmation, the Trump DOL’s full leadership slate is in place.

Andrew Rogers as Wage and Hour Administrator

Andrew Rogers had practiced employment law at a management-side firm. He takes the Wage and Hour Division (WHD) helm with significant administrative agency experience, however, most recently as acting general counsel at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). He was a senior advisor in the WHD during the first Trump Administration, where he focused primarily on regulations and opinion letters.

During the first Trump Administration, the DOL had a robust practice of publishing opinion letters, which are...

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