Punching In: DOL Brings Back Ex-Leader to Spearhead Hiring Spree

Monday morning musings for workplace watchers

Hugler’s Return | Pay Equity at the OFCCP?

Ben Penn: The U.S. Labor Department has brought back a former longtime senior official to help coordinate a hiring surge, as the Biden administration seeks to rebuild labor enforcement staffing.

Ed Hugler was formerly the department’s most senior career official and twice served as acting labor secretary over the course of his four-decade DOL career.

DOL agencies this summer are staffing up to the maximum extent possible, despite an uncertain fiscal 2022 funding picture.

Labor Secretary Marty Walsh spotlighted this effort at a recent Senate hearing ...