Punching In: DOL Solicitors Punching Out?

Monday morning musings for workplace watchers

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Ben Penn:After four months of relative silence, theLabor Department’s top attorney telegraphed her intentionsto the business communityat a closed-door U.S. Chamber of Commerce meetingFriday.

Sources in the room tell me that Solicitor Kate O’Scannlain’s prepared remarks offered scant detail on the agency’s plans to revise Obama-era policies. But in response to attendee grousing during the Q&A, Kate went off script to slip a few specifics about a new field memo in the hopper. ...