Mr. Alexander J. Passantino is Of Counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Seyfarth Shaw. He previously served as the Deputy and Acting Administrator of the U.S. Department of Labor,

Wage and Hour Division (WHD) from 2006 until 2009.

As Acting Administrator, Mr. Passantino led the federal agency that interprets and enforces the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Davis-Bacon Act, the Service Contract Act, and numerous other federal statutes on behalf of roughly 135 million workers in 7.3 million workplaces around the country.

Mr. Passantino was named Deputy Administrator for the division in October 2006. He first joined the U.S. Department of Labor in November 2005 as a Senior Policy Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for the Employment Standards Administration.

Mr. Passantino joined the Department of Labor in 2005 as a Senior Policy Advisor to the Honorable Victoria A. Lipnic, Labor & Employment Of Counsel in our Washington, D.C. office and former Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment Standards. In that capacity, Mr. Passantino was a member of the WHD’s Executive Team and provided legal and policy advice on a range of wage and hour matters, with emphasis on the FLSA and the FMLA.

He also served as a law clerk to the Honorable John F. Nangle in the Southern District of Georgia. He spent his associate years at King & Ballow in Nashville, Tennessee and Hunton & Williams in Atlanta, focusing on labor, employment, and First Amendment, consumer and financial services litigation.

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