The Trump Administration's Labor Department
Executive Director
[Update on December 9: The Trump transition team announced one of the candidates in our original story, Andrew Puzder, as the nominee for Secretary of Labor. See our commentary.] Although the incoming Trump administration has not yet announced a candidate to be Secretary of Labor, Politico reports that the three likely candidates are Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.), Andrew Puzder (chief executive of CKE Restaurants), and Peter Kirsanow (an attorney who serves on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights). The New York Times reports a single top candidate: Victoria A. Lipnic, an Equal Employment Opportunity commissioner and workforce policy counsel to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
The person running the Department of Labor transition team for Donald Trump is Steve Hart. Hart was an employee of the Department of Labor and several other executive agencies during the Reagan Administration. He joined the lobbying firm Williams & Jensen in 1984 and in 1999 became its chairman and CEO.