THE WHITE HOUSE

                    Office of the Press Secretary
                    (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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For Immediate Release                                  February 13, 1998

                PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES SETH D. HARRIS 
            AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION 
                      AT THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

The President today announced his intent to nominate Seth D. Harris as Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division at the Department of Labor.

Mr. Seth D. Harris, of Roslyn Heights, New York, is currently a Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and is also the Acting Assistant Secretary for Policy. Mr. Harris joined the Department of Labor in December 1993 as a Special Assistant to then-Secretary Robert Reich. From January to December 1993, Mr. Harris was a litigation associate at White & Case, a New York law firm. He has served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Gene Carter of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine and Judge William Canby of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. From 1983-1988, Mr. Harris was a legislative field representative for the Seafarers International Union.

Mr. Harris received a Bachelor of Science degree from the Cornell University School of Industrial & Labor Relations, and a Juris Doctor degree from the New York University School of Law.

The Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division is responsible, among other things, for enforcing the nation's minimum wage, overtime, child labor, and family and medical leave laws, and determining prevailing wage rates for Federal construction and service contracts.