The husband of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has been barred from entering the Department of Labor after multiple employees accused him of sexual abuse inside the agency’s headquarters.
Dr. Shawn DeRemer, an anesthesiologist, was prohibited from Labor Department property following allegations that he inappropriately touched at least two female employees during visits to the department’s Washington offices.
One of the alleged incidents was captured on security cameras in December 2025, according to the New York Times. The matter was referred to the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, which took a report alleging forced sexual contact at the department’s address.
Labor Department leadership directed security to deny DeRemer access to agency facilities pending the outcome of the investigations. The department has not commented on the allegations, citing personnel and security protocols.
The developments add to mounting scrutiny surrounding Chavez-DeRemer’s tenure at the Labor Department.
The department’s inspector general has been reviewing separate workplace-related complaints involving Chavez-DeRemer and alleged misconduct with two of her top staffers, as well as an alleged “inappropriate” relationship with a member of her security detail who has since been placed on leave, according to the New York Times.
The labor secretary allegedly invited a member of her security detail into her hotel room at the Red Rocks Casino Resort and Spa and her Washington, D.C., apartment on multiple occasions.
Chavez-DeRemer is also facing allegations of improperly using the Labor Department to commit “travel fraud” by ordering her top staffers to “make up” official trips so she could spend time with friends and family using taxpayer dollars.
According to reporting by the Washington Examiner, Chaves-DeRemer has a history of allegedly going on spending sprees.
EMBATTLED LABOR SECRETARY HAS HISTORY OF QUESTIONABLE SPENDING THAT ELUDED CONGRESS
Her spending started modestly while serving as mayor of Happy Valley, Oregon, but grew more expensive when she ran for Congress.
Some of the congressional campaign expenditures included $1,512 in campaign funds spent at the St. Regis ski resort in Utah, nearly $7,000 at the Phoenician, a resort in Arizona, roughly $2,000 to the lakeside Otesaga Resort Hotel in upstate New York, and $2,585 in payments to the Inn at the Pier in Pismo Beach, California.
The Washington Examiner reached out to the Labor Department for comment.