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• Baltimore City Paper

Democracy In Crisis: Russia, Race, and Jeff Sessions

His Justice Department will likely ignore the epidemic of African-Americans killed by police, and he is against consent decrees, legal agreements between the DOJ and local police departments with patterns and practices of abuse or constitutional violations, intended to curb the unchecked power of local cops.

• Politics

Perez emerges from internal divisions to lead Democratic Party

Former U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez emerged Saturday from a bruising internal fight to become the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee, a job that will put him at the forefront of rebuilding the party and confronting President Donald Trump.

By John Fritze

Feb 25, 2017

• Politics

Perez, candidate for DNC chair, calls for expanded voter protection

U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez, one of several candidates running to lead the Democratic National Committee, said Monday he would use the position to expand the party's efforts to protect voters in the wake of ballot laws cropping up across the country.

By John Fritze

Jan 9, 2017

• Politics

Tom Perez announces run for Democratic Party chair

U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez is set to announce today that he will run for chairman of the Democratic National Committee, potentially taking himself out of the speculative mix of candidates considering the Maryland governor's race in 2018.

By John Fritze

Dec 15, 2016

• U.S. Department of Labor

Maryland DLLR awarded grant to improve employment for disabled people

The Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation was awarded a $2.5 million federal grant announced Wednesday to improve employment opportunities for people with disabilities.

By Carrie Wells

Sep 14, 2016

• Baltimore City

Baltimore to host summit on youth violence featuring more than 30 cities

Next week, Baltimore will host more than 600 participants from more than 30 cities for the Fifth National Summit on Preventing Youth Violence. Along with representatives from cities nationwide, several national figures will attend, including Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Secretary of Education John King and Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez. The Hilton Baltimore will host the convention, which is scheduled to run Monday through Wednesday.

• Opinion

A path forward for state retirement plans

The Labor Department is releasing a proposed rule that will clarify a path forward for state retirement plans, providing guidance about how to create systems that would be consistent with the current ERISA structure.

• Baltimore City Paper

On Latina Equal Pay Day, Sen. Mikulski undermines latina pay

• Maryland

Labor secretary Perez praises unions, criticizes Hogan, in address to teachers

U.S. Sec. of Labor Thomas Perez gave a full-throated defense of unions as the bedrock of the middle class on Friday, and also called out Maryland's Republican governor for withholding money the legislature wanted to send to schools.

By Erin Cox

Oct 16, 2015

• Workplace

In 25 years, ADA broke down barriers for the disabled, but the workplace is the next frontier

Advocates say some forms of discrimination still persist a quarter century after landmark civil rights legislation guaranteed equal access for people with disabilities.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Jul 25, 2015

• Barack Obama

Boosting overtime: Obama calls for broader coverage

They're called managers, and they sometimes work grueling schedules at fast food chains and retail stores. But with no overtime eligibility, their pay may be lower per hour than many workers they supervise.

• High Schools

U.S. Cabinet secretaries visit Douglass High School

U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez and Education Secretary Arne Duncan spent Wednesday afternoon at Frederick Douglass High School, where they discussed financial literacy and heard students' concerns about the lack of jobs and opportunities in Baltimore.

• Politics

Lawmakers, administration seek fix on guest worker program

Lawmakers from Maryland and the Obama administration are scrambling to fight a federal court order that has shut down the guest worker program that connects foreigners with crab-picking jobs on the Eastern Shore and other low-paying, seasonal work around the country.

By John Fritze

Mar 17, 2015

• Public Transportation

Labor Secretary Perez promotes Red Line, high-speed rail

U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez said plans for a a new light rail line in Baltimore should move forward in a speech in Baltimore Monday that promoted the Obama administration's economic agenda.

By Natalie Sherman

Mar 16, 2015

• Politics

President Obama, others on Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski

President Barack Obama offered his praise of Sen. Barbara Mikulski

• Laws and Legislation

Business groups fight Obama executive order on federal contractors

Business groups are fighting an executive order signed by President Obama to bar companies with histories of labor-law violations from contracting with the federal government.

By Alison Knezevich

Nov 24, 2014

• Politics

Perez endorsed for attorney general by Hispanic caucus

Thomas E. Perez, a candidate for U.S. Attorney General, was endorsed Tuesday for the top law enforcement job by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

By John Fritze

Oct 28, 2014

• Politics

Perez draws attention for attorney general

Fourteen months after he took his seat at the head of the U.S. Department of Labor, Marylander Thomas E. Perez is being eyed for an even more prominent position in President Barack Obama's second-term Cabinet: As a successor to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.

• Politics

Perez draws attention for attorney general

• Politics

O'Malley joins U.S. labor secretary to call for higher wages

Gov. Martin O'Malley joined U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez Wednesday at a popular burrito restaurant in Bethesda to praise its higher-than-minimum wages and to promote a raise for other American workers.

• Politics

O'Malley joins U.S. labor secretary to call for higher wages

• Minority Groups

A push to boost Hispanic representation in federal workforce

A new effort is underway to increase the number of Hispanic and Latino employees within the federal workforce, where they remain among the most underrepresented minority groups despite being one of the nation's fastest growing demographics.

• Niles

A push to boost Hispanic representation in federal workforce

• Politics

O'Malley signs Maryland minimum-wage increase into law

Vowing to strengthen Maryland's middle class, Gov. Martin O'Malley signed legislation Monday that will gradually raise the state's minimum wage to $10.10 an hour – his No. 1 priority for the final legislative session of his eight years in office.

• Politics

O'Malley signs Maryland minimum-wage increase into law

• Maryland

Melinda Henneberger: The value of increasing minimum wage

• Business

Legg Mason unit agrees to $21 million fraud settlement

A California-based unit of Legg Mason Inc. agreed to pay more than $21 million to settle government charges that it did not properly reimburse clients for losses caused by a coding error and engineered trades between clients that cheated one of the parties.

• Opinion

Wearing a coat at home [Commentary]

• Unemployment Benefits

Extended unemployment benefits expire for more than 25,000 Marylanders

Emergency unemployment benefits will expire Saturday for more than 25,000 out-of-work Marylanders, with thousands more projected to run out of the insurance in the first half of the year unless Congress decides to reverse course and approve an extension.

• Unemployment and Layoffs

Extended unemployment benefits expire for more than 25,000 Marylanders

• Laws and Legislation

Perez presses Congress on unemployment extension

U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez said Congress left more than a million families a "lump of coal in their stocking" when it failed to address expiring federal unemployment benefits, and he joined a chorus of Democrats who are calling on lawmakers to approve a retroactive extension as their first order of business next month.

• Health

New rules require equal insurance coverage for mental ills

Most Americans with health insurance will be guaranteed access to mental health services, including for depression and alcoholism, equal to medical and surgical treatment under long-delayed rules issued on Friday by the Obama administration. But the protections do not apply to tens of millions of people, including the elderly.

• Jobs and Workplace

Marylander Thomas Perez digs in at Labor Department

Six weeks after taking over the U.S. Department of Labor, Marylander Thomas E. Perez is receiving praise from unions, concern from business leaders and hope from others that he will expand the agency's mission.

• Thomas Edward Perez

Marylander Thomas Perez digs in at Labor Department

• Elections

Social Security without permanent leader

Six months after former Social Security Administration commissioner Michael J. Astrue left his post, the Obama administration has yet to nominate a replacement — leaving a leadership gap as the agency wrestles with shrinking budgets and hard choices.

• Barack Obama

Social Security without permanent leader

• Politics

Former Md. regulator named to No. 2 Treasury job

Former Md. regulator named to No. 2 Treasury job

• Politics

Former Md. regulator named to No. 2 Treasury job

• Opinion

A minimum step forward

If President Obama and Labor Secretary Perez are serious about addressing income inequality, they'll push Congress to raise the minimum wage

• Barack Obama

A minimum step forward

• Politics

Labor lawyer, NLRB nominee Schiffer heads to full Senate

WASHINGTON -- An Annapolis attorney nominated by President Barack Obama to serve on the National Labor Relations Board cleared a committee vote Wednesday and is expected to win confirmation by the full Senate as early as next week.

• Politics

Labor lawyer, NLRB nominee Schiffer heads to full Senate

• Jobs and Workplace

Labor lawyer Schiffer tells senators she can be impartial on NLRB

An Annapolis lawyer who has long represented unions tried to assure Senate Republicans on Tuesday that she could serve as an impartial member of the National Labor Relations Board.

• Politics

Annapolis lawyer for unions says she would be impartial on federal board

• Politics

Annapolis lawyer for unions says she would be impartial on federal board

• Baltimore City

Baltimore rally among several rallies nationwide to protest Zimmerman verdict

As more than a hundred people gathered in the shade by the federal courthouse to protest the verdict in the George Zimmerman murder trial, the Rev. Jamal-Harrison Bryant traced a line between the shooting in Florida and the violence that has claimed the lives of scores of black men in Baltimore this year.

• Baltimore City

Baltimore rally among several rallies nationwide to protest Zimmerman verdict

• Politics

Deal to avoid 'nuclear option' clears path for Perez

Senate leaders struck a deal Tuesday to avoid a showdown over the use of filibusters, ending a political drama and clearing the way for Marylander Thomas E. Perez to win confirmation as head of the Labor Department.

• Politics

Deal to avoid 'nuclear option' clears path for Perez

• Politics

Perez confirmation vote hangs on Senate's 'nuclear option' debate

Thomas E. Perez, the Marylander nominated by President Barack Obama to lead the U.S. Department of Labor, is set to face a critical vote in the Senate this week that puts his confirmation in the middle of a blistering battle over the use of the filibuster.