(The Center Square) – Pennsylvania’s handling of unemployment claims left at least one Republican senator calling for the ouster of the Department of Labor and Industry’s top official.
Sen. John DiSanto, R-Perry, said he lost faith in L&I Secretary Jerry Oleksiak at a joint hearing of the Senate Labor and Industry and Communications and Technology committees regarding the department’s botched response to soaring unemployment claims amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“His management of the department leading up to and during this response to the COVID-19 pandemic can only be described as a failure,” DiSanto said in a letter
addressed to Gov. Tom Wolf. “I heard excuses and blame, but not the leadership and action that is needed at the helm of the Department of Labor & Industry.”
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