Labor Department’s Scalia Axes Top Oracle-Case Lawyer Herold (2)

U.S. Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia fired his agency’s West Coast legal chief, Janet Herold, effective Monday, removing the regional attorney who spearheaded a lawsuit against Oracle America Inc. as she continues to pursue a retaliation complaint.

Nine days before the White House switches hands, the Trump administration is expelling her from a position controlling litigation in an eight-state region that had developed a reputation for aggressively fighting for workers’ rights, including in wage-and-hour and pay discrimination cases.

The development is the latest chapter in a drawn-out tussle in which Herold has claimed Scalia inappropriately meddled to help Oracle, the ...