Religious Freedom Advocate Is New Wage Hour Division Adviser

The Labor Department appointed Steven Begakis, a recent law school graduate with an interest in natural law and religious liberty, as a Wage and Hour Division policy adviser, a DOL official confirmed to Bloomberg Law.

Begakis becomes the third political appointee thus far in the Trump White House at the DOL agency responsible for enforcing and regulating federal minimum wage, overtime, and family leave laws. He reported for duty last week, according to the official.

Begakis joins the WHD as it works through multiple concurrent regulatory and policy priorities in the queue even before the Senate confirmation of the agency’s ...