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Friday, April 16, 2021
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President Biden has announced the nomination of Cal/OSHA Chief Doug Parker for Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health.
The nomination is now before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
If confirmed, Parker will be the first Senate-confirmed leader of OSHA since January 2017.
Parker’s nomination comes at a time when OSHA is determining whether to move forward with an emergency COVID-19 standard.
On April 9, 2021, President Biden announced that he was nominating Doug Parker for the role of Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health. Doug Parker is currently the Chief of the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (“Cal/OSHA”) and has served in that role since 2019.
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On Friday, President Biden announced that he intends to nominate Douglas L. Parker to serve as assistant secretary of labor for the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
Parker has been the Chief of the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) since September 2019. In that role, Parker has overseen the drafting, implementation, and enforcement of the COVID-19 Cal/OSHA Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS) that are now in litigation.
Prior to Cal/OSHA, Parker worked as the executive director of Worksafe, Inc., a workers’ advocacy and and legal aid organization focused on supporting unions and “exposing” unsafe workplaces throughout California. Parker also previously served with the DOL during the Obama administration, including as deputy assistant secretary of labor for policy in the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Fin
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