GOP: Wal-Mart Lawyer 'Highly Qualified' for Labor Post

One more fox is headed to the henhouse as Senate Republicans get ready to rubberstamp another anti-worker candidate chosen by President Bush for a position in the Labor Department.

At his hearing this week, Paul DeCamp portrayed himself as someone who'd stocked shelves and flipped burgers and therefore was ideal to be in charge of the Wage and Hour Administration, enforcing the nation's minimum wage and overtime laws, and many other worker issues.

In truth, DeCamp admitted that as a lawyer in private practice he never represented the workers' side in a lawsuit. In fact, he represented Wal-Mart in trying to prevent a class action by 1.5 million women suing the company for pay and promotion discrimination.

DeCamp, now a senior policy advisor in the Labor Department, has also proposed draconian overhauls of overtime rights, represented businesses fighting union organizing campaigns and fought for employers against the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, state wage and hour laws and other laws protecting workers and retirees, according to the AFL-CIO.