Acting Secretary of Labor

Keith Sonderling

Republican · Florida

Deputy Secretary of Labor since 2025 and acting Secretary since April 20, 2026, after Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned. Served as commissioner and vice chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 2020 to 2024, and as acting administrator of the department's Wage and Hour Division in 2019.

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An employment lawyer by training, leading the department in an acting capacity. Known for work on wage-and-hour enforcement and for early attention to artificial intelligence in hiring and workplace discrimination while at the EEOC.

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