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Economy

New Labor Regulations Help Keep Government Accountable

2020-05-19

By Secretary Eugene Scalia

Lawyer, son of Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, father of seven, aide to Reagan's education secretary William J. Bennett, assistant to George H. W. Bush’s attorney general William Barr, #3 in George W. Bush’s labor department, and sworn in as Donald Trump’s secretary of labour last September. A busy man.

[TownHall] - When I became Secretary of Labor I took an oath to "well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office." Whether my cabinet colleagues and I have done so is ultimately for the American people to judge: one of the privileges of being an American is the ability to hold executive and legislative branch officials accountable at the ballot box.

This accountability is often undermined, though, by officials tasked with a job who pass it off to someone else, to avoid responsibility for how it gets done. The result in some cases has been to transform government of, by, and for the people into government by persons unknown, for reasons obscure to the public. President Trump was elected in no small part to address this problem and restore accountability to government.

Today the Department of Labor took a modest but important step to that end. Under new regulations, the Secretary of Labor will have the power to review, at his discretion, decisions of the Administrative Review Board, or ARB, an adjudicative body within the Department. The ARB issues decisions in the Secretary’s name—in cases where Congress specified that "the Secretary of Labor shall issue final order[s]"—but with no real oversight by the Secretary himself.

Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#1 Good move.

Posted by: trailing wife 2020-05-19 21:02

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