Uber Critic David Weil Tapped for Second Stint as DOL Wage Chief

The Biden administration will nominate David Weil for a return to his Obama-era post as the U.S. Labor Department’s wage-hour chief, the nation’s top enforcer of minimum pay and overtime laws, a White House official confirmed to Bloomberg Law.

A formal announcement of President Joe Biden‘s intent to nominate Weil will be made later Thursday, the official said.

Weil, who has supported government crackdowns on the workforce models of Uber Technologies Inc. and other gig-economy companies, led the Wage and Hour Division from 2014 through early 2017. If confirmed, he would regain control of the division—one of the Labor ...