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CNMI Department of Labor urges restoration of Administrative Hearing Office staffing
Summary
Leila Stafler, secretary of labor for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, told the Ways and Means Committee at a budget hearing that the Department of Labor’s Administrative Hearing Office is critically understaffed and asked committee members to preserve unfilled FTEs in the department’s fiscal 2026 request.
Leila Stafler, secretary of labor for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, told the Ways and Means Committee at a budget hearing that the Department of Labor’s Administrative Hearing Office is critically understaffed and asked committee members to preserve unfilled FTEs in the department’s fiscal 2026 request.
Stafler said the office had been reduced over the past decade to a single full‑time equivalent and that the department needs “at minimum” one Administrative Hearing Officer, one clerk and one administrative staff member to provide impartial adjudication, manage filings and coordinate hearings. She…
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