David Weil Nominated To Head DOL's Wage And Hour Division

President Obama has announced his choice to serve as Administrator of the DOL's Wage and Hour Division (WHD). The position has remained vacant for a number of years. The WHD is the DOL sub-agency that will implement many key regulatory and policy proposals in the coming year, including the imminent final companionship exemption rule that will apply the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to domestic service workers, and various worker misclassification initiatives.

Dr. Weil currently works as a professor of markets, public policy, and law at the Boston University School of Management, where he has worked since 1992. Notably, Weil was the principal investigator on a report for the DOL: Improving Workplace Conditions through Strategic Enforcement: Report to the Wage and Hour Division Strategic Enforcement. The Report provides insight on Weil's priorities as well as his approach to enforcement. According to his report, "Problems facing particularly vulnerable workers