The White House website indicates that on November 3, 2009 the President nominated Victoria Lipnic, former Assistant Secretary for the Employment Standards Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, to serve as a commissioner to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/nominations-and-appointments
Ms. Lipnic is currently of counsel to the law firm of Seyfarth Shaw. The following is her firm biography:
Victoria A. Lipnic
vlipnic@seyfarth.com
Practice Areas
Labor & Employment; Workplace Counseling & Solutions
The Honorable Victoria A. Lipnic is of counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. Ms. Lipnic was the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment Standards from 2002 until 2009, where she oversaw the Employment Standards Administration (ESA). ESA is the largest agency in the Department of Labor and enforces some of the most comprehensive labor and employment laws that impact more than 135 million workers in 7.3 million workplaces. The agency includes the Wage and Hour Division, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (affirmative action for federal contractors), the Office of Labor Management Standards (which oversees union financial disclosures and union officer elections), and the Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs. Each of these four major program areas has a network of regional, district, and field offices throughout the country. As Assistant Secretary, the senior leadership of each agency reported directly to her.
Ms. Lipnic led the teams who successfully revised the Part 541 overtime regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act regulations, the first-ever compensation guidance and regulations from OFCCP, and the first revisions to the union financial disclosure regulations in 40 years. Also, under her leadership, the Wage and Hour Division made it a priority to systematically respond to wage and hour opinion letter requests, issuing more than 300 opinion letters during her tenure. She worked closely with the Solicitor of Labor’s office on numerous projects including a number of seminal FLSA issues that went before the U.S. Supreme Court and the Wage and Hour Division’s settlement of the largest FLSA case in its history with a private sector employer.
In addition to her work with the Department of Labor, Ms. Lipnic’s experience in Washington, D.C. includes service as Workforce Policy Counsel to the Republican members of the Education and Labor Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. She has a vast array of contacts in the executive branch and on Capitol Hill and, having led so many high-profile projects, she also has extensive experience with the national media. Ms. Lipnic has testified before Congress many times and is a frequent speaker before trade associations, business groups, and human resource associations. In June 2009, she testified before the U.S. House of Representatives on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on proposed “paid sick leave” legislation. Before her work for Congress, Ms. Lipnic acted as in-house counsel for labor and employment matters to the U.S. Postal Service for six years. During that time, the Postal Service was the largest employer in the country and she provided counseling and handled litigation on matters involving the organization’s employees at corporate headquarters and plants and facilities around the country. She also served as a special assistant for business liaison to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, the Honorable Malcolm Baldrige.
Education
J.D., George Mason University School of Law (1991)
B.A., Allegheny College (1982)
Admissions
Pennsylvania
Courts
Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
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