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Determined to avoid any persistent gaps in his Cabinet seating chart, George W. Bush wasted no time replacing Linda Chavez as his nominee for labor secretary...
...Thursday, less than 48 hours after Chavez withdrew from consideration under a firestorm of allegations that she'd harbored an illegal immigrant, the President-elect named Elaine Chao as his new nominee to head the Labor Department. Bush also announced Robert Zoellick, a veteran of Republican State and Treasury Departments, as his nominee for the post of U.S. trade representative, also a Cabinet position...
...Chao, who is not shy about her conservative ideology, may be helped through the confirmation three-ring circus by the fact that the labor and civil rights groups so vehemently opposed to Chavez's nomination have now focused their attention on Bush's attorney general-designate, John Ashcroft...
...Baird, Chavez and Wood weren't quite so lucky. All three lost their bids for Cabinet-level appointments because they'd hired domestic workers whose immigration status and/or pay situation came under extreme scrutiny. Each has her own story: After eight days of questioning, Baird admitted that her family had employed an illegal Peruvian couple whose wages were not taxed. Chavez insists she did nothing wrong from an employment point of view, claiming that an illegal Guatemalan immigrant living in her home was there out of charity, not to work - which is why Chavez never paid taxes on her wages...
...Baird and Chavez both sparked righteous indignation from political enemies - and, predictably, heated support from backers. And there are plenty of things about illegal labor to get upset about: These workers are unprotected from abuse from employers and are often paid less than the minimum wage. And employers should know better than to shirk their responsibilities to the great tax code of America...