Biden Team Eyes Jenny Yang, Ex-EEOC Chair, to Run Labor Agency

The incoming Biden administration is giving serious consideration to selecting Jenny Yang, a former EEOC chair, to head the Labor Department’s contractor compliance agency, according to two sources familiar with internal personnel discussions.

Selecting Yang to run the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, which polices federal contractors for compliance with anti-discrimination laws, would effectively assign a transition team member who has a significant track record in combating the gender pay gap to work on a priority area for President-elect Joe Biden.

Yang served on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the government’s workplace civil rights agency, from 2013-2018, ...