Labor Secretary Rewards Former Staff With Big Raises

By: Robert Bluey (Diary)  |  May 10th at 04:18 PM  | 

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis rewarded six former staffers from her congressional office with political appointments and huge raises upon taking over at the Department of Labor. The appointees had significant pay increases averaging 50 percent upon changing jobs; one employee’s salary nearly doubled. Solis, a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California, began hiring the employees shortly after she was confirmed by | Read More »