Labor & Employment Law

Hilda Harris confirmed for Labor, Seth Harris to be deputy

The Senate today confirmed Hilda Solis as Secretary of the Department of Labor by a vote of 80 to 17.

The Whitehouse today announced the intent to nominate Seth Harris to be Deputy Secretary of the Department of Labor. Quoting the Whitehouse:

Harris was most recently the Obama Transition Project?s Agency Working Group Leader for the labor, education, and transportation agencies. He is a Professor and the Director of Labor & Employment Law Programs at New York Law School. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Life Without Limits Project of the United Cerebral Palsy Association and a member of the National Advisory Commission on Workplace Flexibility. He served as the Chair of Obama for America?s Labor, Employment, and Workplace Policy Committee and a Co-Chair of its Disability Policy Committee. During the Clinton Administration, he served as Counselor to the Secretary of Labor and Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for Policy, among other policy-advising positions. Before joining the administration, he was a law clerk to Judge William Canby of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit and Judge Gene Carter of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine. He graduated cum laude from New York University School of Law where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Review of Law & Social Change. He received his Bachelor?s degree from Cornell University?s School of Industrial & Labor Relations.

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Full post as published by Ross' Employment Law Blog on February 24, 2009 (boomark / email).