Punching In: Big Rules Await Walsh at DOL If He Gets Senate Nod

Monday morning musings for workplace watchers

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Ben Penn: This is shaping up as the week that Marty Walsh may shed the Boston mayor title and replace it with U.S. labor secretary. If the Senate can find room in a packed schedule to give Walsh a floor vote, he’s very likely to get easy confirmation with bipartisan support, and could be sworn in to lead the U.S. Labor Department by Friday.

Don’t expect Washington to grant Walsh much of a honeymoon period while getting accustomed to his first federal government job. He’d ...