Trump to Tap Wage-Hour Lawyer for Equal Employment Agency (1)

The White House will nominate Keith Sonderling, currently a Labor Department official, as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s new Republican commissioner.

President Donald Trump intends to select the former Florida business attorney along with Democrat Charlotte Burrows, a current EEOC commissioner, for another term, the White House said in a statement July 3 following a Bloomberg Law report earlier in the day.

The EEOC, which enforces federal workplace discrimination law, has several significant policy decisions on its plate. That includes how to reckon with a judge’s recent ruling that the agency must proceed with an Obama-era initiative to require ...