Gerard Oleksiak

Lawmakers voice concern over unemployment compensation claims backlog

BY: - April 20, 2020

Constituent complaints, Mullery said in a statement, are why he wrote to House Labor and Industry Committee Chairman Jim Cox, R-Berks, asking for a virtual hearing with state Labor and Industry Secretary Gerard Oleksiak. 

‘Shame on us’ Labor & Industry secretary says of Pa.’s stalled minimum wage

BY: - February 20, 2020

The two Wolf administration officials made the case for a wage hike during the agency’s annual budget hearing before the House Appropriations Committee. They told the Repulican-controlled panel that the Legislature’s lack of movement on the issue has been “frustrating.”