Trump's Department of Labor has risen to the coronavirus challenge | Opinion

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The deputy secretary and wage and hour administrator of the U.S. Department of Labor defend the Department's coronavirus response.

Coronavirus has upended ordinary life in the United States. It challenges not only our health, but our economy and our way of life. It also has disrupted the workplace like nothing before.

While the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division promptly implemented the letter and spirit of this groundbreaking paid leave law through rulemaking, compliance assistance and outreach, critics have suggested the Department has failed to both inform workers and employers about the law and ensure the law is enforced.

Within days of FFCRA's enactment, WHD published more than a dozen frequently asked questions on its website and continued to publish additional guidance in the following weeks. Within one week, WHD posted a sample"Notice of Rights" for employers to send their employees—and to date, WHD has made this Notice available on its website in more than 10 languages.

WHD has already concluded more than 700 FFCRA cases. As a result of WHD's actions, an employee in a CPA office in Hawaii now has access to paid family and medical leave to care for a child whose school was closed due to COVID-19, and the CPA office has agreed to comply with all requirements of the FFCRA going forward.

 

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USDOL Would this be an example of fake news?

USDOL Funny: in the picture I see: 'United States Department of Labor'.

USDOL 🙄 This could have been a nice ode to the workers at DOL, until the headline 'Trump's department' kind of gave away who the actual audience of this praise is.

Oh Newsweek trump did nothing -he’s just an ignorant puppet, Congress worked for this & it is still riddled with faulty lines

Lol

😂 😂 😂 I also give myself high marks for a job well done

You maybe want to note this is written by the Deputy Secretary of the DOL so like, not an unbiased source.

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