President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Keith Sonderling, a former Republican commissioner on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, to serve as the number two at the US Department of Labor.
“Keith will work with our great Nominee for Secretary of Labor, Lori Chavez-Deremer, to put our Country and Workers FIRST,” Trump said when announcing the pick via Truth Social on Tuesday evening.
If confirmed as Deputy Labor Secretary, Sonderling would be tasked with overseeing the DOL’s nearly 15,000 employees and the agency’s day to day operations.
He would also have a hand in implementing the administration’s labor agenda, which so far is expected to focus on slashing regulations and expanding job training programs at the DOL. Deputy secretaries at the DOL have approached the role in many different ways, some wielding stronger influence over policy decisions depending on their professional background.
The former EEOC commissioner would report to Chavez-DeRemer, the former Oregon Republican congresswoman nominated to lead the agency, who still faces Senate confirmation. Sonderling’s business background may bring some relief to the management-side community, who has so far largely kept its pen dry on Chavez-DeRemer due to her past support for legislation that would broadly expand workers’ rights under federal labor law.
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