{"id":255,"date":"2008-12-20T23:54:10","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T03:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/?p=255"},"modified":"2008-12-21T01:36:05","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T05:36:05","slug":"president-elect-obama-nominates-solis-to-cabinet-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/2008\/12\/president-elect-obama-nominates-solis-to-cabinet-post\/","title":{"rendered":"President-Elect Obama Nominates Solis to Cabinet Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Labor Nominee Hilda Solis.jpg\" alt=\"Labor Nominee Hilda Solis\" width=\"74\" height=\"111\" \/>President-Elect Barack Obama recently nominated Rep. Hilda Solis (D-CA) to be the new Secretary of Labor. Solis, 51, has served four terms in the House of Representatives and recently won a fifth term. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aflcio.org\/cgi-bin\/member.pl?state=CA&amp;pg=2&amp;id=52&amp;year=07&amp;congress=h\" target=\"_blank\">AFL-CIO<\/a>, Solis has voted right 97% of the time in her congressional career and 100% of the time in 2007. <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">In accepting the nomination <\/span>Solis said, \u201cAs Secretary of Labor, I will work to strengthen our unions and support every American in our nation&#8217;s diverse workforce\u2026We also must enforce federal labor laws and strengthen regulations to protect our nation&#8217;s workers, such as wage and hour laws, and rules regarding overtime pay and pay discrimination.\u201d<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"> If confirmed, Solis would succeed current Labor Secretary Elaine Chao.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-Elect Barack Obama recently nominated Rep. Hilda Solis (D-CA) to be the new Secretary of Labor. Solis, 51, has served four terms in the House of Representatives and recently won a fifth term. According to the AFL-CIO, Solis has voted right 97% of the time in her congressional career and 100% of the time in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[633,629,632,630,631,89],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}