Trump Team Eyes Ex-Fast Food CEO Puzder to Lead DOL (1)

Nov. 14, 2024, 10:00 AM UTCUpdated: Nov. 14, 2024, 4:50 PM UTC

Former CKE Restaurants Holdings Inc. 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.

Puzder was Trump’s original choice for labor secretary when he was first elected in 2017. He and Patrick Pizzella, who served as deputy secretary of labor during the first Trump administration, are in the running to head the US Labor Department, according to Roger King of the HR Policy Association and another source in contact with the Trump transition team.

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