With mine safety front and center after the deaths of 29 miners in West Virginia just weeks ago and the recent mine collapse in Kentucky, the Department of Labor rolled out its regulatory agenda last week, including proposals to revamp mine safety rules. Will compliance or enforcement be at the heart of Labor’s regulatory efforts? (more…)
Part of Understanding Government’s new Public Service Announcement series featuring federal employees and profiles of what they do
By Norman Kelley
You would expect a certain amount of spin from an interview with a Labor Department public affairs official about his work. However, Carl Fillichio truly likes what he does, so his aim is true.
Preferring to call his recent installment at the U. S. Dept. of Labor a “second go at the rodeo,” Carl Fillichio, Senior Adviser to the Secretary of Labor for Public Affairs and Communications, is ebullient about his work and the mission of getting the department’s message out.
“The way I look at communications, it’s not just issuing press releases, or doing press conferences or doing a newsletter, it is events and speaking engagements, and all sorts of opportunities to get our message out. I have my finger in all that type of stuff.”
Previously a Clinton appointee who served under Labor secretaries Robert Reich and Alexis Hermann, Fillichio engages in the full panoply of media for the department. “It’s the best gig you can have, public service.” (more…)
