Government Executive: The Department of Labor may soon be run by the CEO of a company cited by the agency itself for wage and labor violations, and sued by employees for more of the same last week.
Andrew Puzder, a critic of minimum wage increases and US president Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Department of Labor, has been named in a lawsuit filed by restaurant workers in Los Angeles Superior Court on Feb. 8. The lawsuit alleges that CKE Enterprises—parent company of the Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s fast-food chains, with Puzder as its CEO—engages in unfair business practices to suppress worker wages.
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