Former restaurant CEO Andrew Puzder “is among the contenders being considered by President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team to lead the federal agency that enforces worker safety, minimum wage, child labor, retirement security, and other employment laws,” Bloomberg Law reports.
“Puzder was Trump’s original choice for labor secretary when he was first elected in 2017.”
Playbook: “You may recall Puzder as Trump’s Labor secretary nominee last term — who withdrew after he admitted to having an undocumented housekeeper and after our colleagues Marianne LeVine and Timothy Noah revealed that his ex-wife appeared on a 1990 Oprah episode about domestic abuse.”
