A frontrunner to be president-elect Joe Biden's labor secretary oversaw the payment of nearly $1 billion in fraudulent benefits to California prison inmates.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy created jobs at a record clip in June as more restaurants and bars resumed operations, further evidence that the COVID-19 recession was probably over, though a surge in cases of the coronavirus threatens the fledgling recovery. 
A lawsuit now unfolding in a Washington, D.C., federal court is putting the Trump administration in an awkward position, forcing government lawyers to defend an agency the White House has tried to shutter against a constitutional challenge from the tech giant Oracle. Bloomberg Law apologized and retracted an article on Department of Labor appointee Leif Olson after falsely accusing him of anti-Semitism in early September. 
A Senate committee advanced the nomination of President Trump's labor secretary in a party-line vote Tuesday morning. Department of Labor employee Leif Olson will return to his post one day after stepping down in the wake of a Bloomberg Law article that wrongfully accused him of anti-Semitism. Olson tweeted confirmation from his Twitter account Wednesday night.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta has tendered his resignation and will be temporarily replaced by Deputy Labor Secretary Patrick Pizzella. 
The Trump administration will issue an additional 30,000 temporary work visas in FY 2019, acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan announced Monday. 
The White House on Thursday announced its plan to merge the Departments of Labor and Education into a single Cabinet agency in order to reduce unnecessary bureaucracy and streamline overlapping regulations and department functions. 
