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Rachel Mondl, deputy solicitor at the Department of Labor, has received appointment to serve as DOL's next chief of staff. Eugene Scalia, secretary of labor, said Mondl will help the department offer family-sustaining career opportunities to the country's workforce, DOL said Monday.

Eugene Scalia, formerly a partner at the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, has been Senate-confirmed to serve as secretary at the Department of Labor, Politico reported Thursday. The Senate approved Scalia through a voice vote of 53-44.

The Department of Labor has launched an online help desk designed to guide contractors and stakeholders in federal contract compliance. DOL said Friday that its Contractor Assistance Portal aims to support the department's efforts to help employers comply with contract policy.

President Trump announced plans to nominate Eugene Scalia, a partner in the Washington office of law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, to serve as the next secretary of the Department of Labor, Politico reported Thursday. “Gene has led a life of great success in the legal and labor field and is highly respected not only as a lawyer, but as a lawyer with great experience working with labor and everyone else,” Trump wrote in a tweet posted Thursday. 

Alexander Acosta announced Friday that he will step down as secretary of the Department of Labor. In a letter to President Trump, Acosta said his resignation will take effect one week after his announcement and seeks to protect the administration’s agenda from any distractions. 

The Department of Labor announced the creation of a new position that will help monitor the agency's governance architecture. The chief data officer will report to the office of the assistant secretary for policy and will supervise a newly established data board, the department said Wednesday.

The Labor Department has proposed a rule that seeks to help American small businesses offer association retirement plans to their employees.

Sen. John Thune (R-South Dakota), chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, has announced that secretaries of five U.S. federal departments will participate in a congressional hearing about infrastructure modernization efforts. Thune’s office said Monday leaders at the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Energy, Labor and Transportation are scheduled to testify …

The Government Accountability Office has called on five federal agencies to fully implement planning practices to transition to a follow-on program to the Networx telecommunications contract in order to avoid additional costs and schedule delays. GAO said in a report published Thursday the transition planning practices that it wants agencies to adopt …

The Senate voted 60-38 Thursday to confirm Alexander Acosta, former member of the National Labor Relations Board, as secretary of the Labor Department, The Hill reported Thursday. Tim Devaney writes Acosta is expected to deal with the fiduciary rule, policy to raise the overtime threshold and other labor regulations proposed during the Obama …