Ex-Steelworkers Safety Official, Obama Alums to Join Biden’s DOL

The Biden transition team plans to install former United Steelworkers safety official Jim Frederick as acting chief of the Labor Department’s workplace safety agency on Inauguration Day, part of a team of interim leaders who will help jump start the new administration’s labor and employment agenda.

Frederick is scheduled to begin work remotely on Wednesday, after President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in. He will join a group of Obama administration alums and other workplace policy professionals who will begin serving in temporary roles across the Labor Department on Wednesday or in coming days, according to several sources briefed on the ...