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Running the labor department has nothing to do with setting minimum wages. That's a legislative honor that neither side of this republic has the political will
by fishtacos 3y ago
Running the labor department has nothing to do with setting minimum wages. That's a legislative honor that neither side of this republic has the political will to touch, so as a result, neither would employers care.
- ncallaway 3y agoWhile a labor department obviously doesn't set minimum wage, they do often handle all kinds of labor/employer disputes (such as wage theft, denial of breaks, mandatory overtime complaints, retaliation complaints, handling worker's comp claims, etc) that would strongly benefit from someone who already has this understanding (or at least has spent time thinking about it). Maybe a $300 wage theft complaint doesn't sound like that big a deal to a labor secretary making $196,000. But it could be an absolutely ruinous for some workers, and represent a huge amount of work to make up.
- fishtacos 3y agoHe's no longer secretary of labor. He's a former secretary of labor discussing something he had to first-hand experience, as opposed to seeing it from the disconnected pulpit. Similar to how the pope, pardon the analogy, claims the greatness of Christiandom while never mentioning the dissonance between criminality of switching the pedophiles in te church to other geographical areas to save them (and the Church's reputation) from due criminal prosecution.