In the third blogcast of the new Power At Work series "What Could Happen Under Trump?", Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by three of his former colleagues in the U.S. Department of Labor: Patricia Shiu, the current Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs at the Department of Labor, David Michaels, a professor at George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health and former Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA, and David Weil, a Professor at Heller and the Department of Economics at Brandeis University and former Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor. Watch now to learn more about how the Department of Labor will react to the leadership of Secretary-designate Lori Chavez-DeRemer. Also hear Shiu, Michaels, and Weil’s insights on how this next administration will impact their respective branches of the Department of Labor.
Patricia Shiu is currently the Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs at the Department of Labor by President Obama. Prior to this appointment, Shiu served as the Vice President for Programs at the Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center in San Francisco. Ms. Shiu joined the Employment Law Center in 1983 as a staff attorney where she focused primarily on employment discrimination, including sex, LGBT, national origin, disability, and race-based discrimination and harassment in individual and class action cases.
David Michaels is an epidemiologist and professor at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. He has held high-level, Senate-confirmed public health positions in the administrations of Presidents Barack Obama and President Bill Clinton. He joined the GW faculty in 2001. Nominated by President Barack Obama and unanimously confirmed by the US Senate, Dr. Michaels served as Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA from 2009 - January 2017 and was the longest-serving administrator in OSHA's history.
David Weil is a Professor at Heller and the Department of Economics at Brandeis University; he previously served as the Dean of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management. Prior to joining the Brandeis faculty in 2017, he was the Peter and Deborah Wexler Professor of Management at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business (1991-2014). He was appointed by President Barack Obama to be the Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor and was nominated again to serve in that role by President Joe Biden.
