Kennedy: do anything about FDIC misconduct? Labor Sec. Su: fall under different agency

Kennedy questions DOL Secretary Su about FDIC misconduct in Appropriations 05 09 24

On 5/9/2024, Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su described revelations stemming from a probe into allegations of harassment and discrimination at a top bank regulator as “clearly horrific” at the senate hearing. The senator pressed Su about how she intended to respond to the findings. Su noted, in response, that the “harassment claims that [Kennedy is] talking about fall under a different federal agency.”

During tense questioning by Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), Su was pressed about the investigation into the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), finding it failed to provide a “provide a workplace safe from harassment, discrimination, and other interpersonal misconduct.” Kennedy asked Su at the hearing on the Biden administration’s fiscal 2025 budget request for the Department of Labor if she would use her “legal authority” to open an investigation of the FDIC amid the ongoing scandal. “I am deeply concerned anytime a working person goes to work and does not get the dignity and respect that they deserve,” Su said, while noting she is “charged with enforcing certain laws based on the powers that Congress has given to the Department of Labor.”

“I appreciate that you are raising an issue involving working people who have experienced clearly horrific …,” she said. “And what it demonstrates is that too often workers may feel like they have to endure [what] no one should have to endure because of a power imbalance in the workplace.” Kennedy then pressed Su on whether she plans to “do anything about it,” such as calling on FDIC Chair Martin Gruenberg to resign, while arguing Su has a “legal and moral authority to investigate Labor.”

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Kennedy: do anything about FDIC misconduct? Labor Sec. Su: fall under different agency

Transcript Highlights

The following is transcribed from the video audio:

• Have you read the recent outside report, 234 pages, about the creepy old men at the FDIC
• The people who conducted the report, Madam Acting Secretary, and I’m surprised you haven’t followed it, ask employees at the agency to phone in complaints
• There’s 6,000 employees, 500, almost one out of 10, employees phoned in complaints
• One young woman said, my supervisor continuously sends me text messages with photographs of his
• Another employee, an Hispanic employee, said my supervisor required me to recite the Pledge of Allegiance because he said I had to prove I’m an American
• I think, Senator, everything that you’re saying is not acceptable in the workplace
• The technical question about labor violation is, I know they fall under various statutes, but yes
• One young woman said, my supervisor sent me a text message saying, quote, is that a violation, labor violation
• I think it’s unacceptable workplace behavior, certainly
• One young woman said, my supervisor regularly commented on my breasts and my legs

Full transcript: 729 words transcribed via Whisper AI.