Obama Encourages Contractors to Break Law

OldRegular · Sep 29, 2012

The Obama administration has doubled down on its plea to defense contractors not to warn employees about possible layoffs due to looming budget cuts -- going so far as to offer to cover legal fees in compensation challenges.

The move drew a stern rebuke Friday from South Dakota Republican Sen. John Thune, since federal law requires employers to give notice if mass layoffs are likely.

"For the second time, the Obama administration has now encouraged government contractors to ignore the WARN Act and hold off on warning employees about possible layoffs due to the looming sequestration cuts,” Thune, lead author of the Sequestration Transparency Act, said Friday.

The offer to pay the legal fees was included in a memorandum issued by the administration Friday that also restated the Labor Department's position from July that contractors should not issue written notices to employees because of the "uncertainty" over the across-the-board cuts to the defense budget and other federal spending that will occur Jan. 2 unless Congress reaches a new deal.

The notices are required under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act and generally require employers with more than 100 employees to provide 60-day notices of "mass layoffs if they are reasonably foreseeable."
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Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...t-issue-sequestration-warnings/#ixzz27uoFbCIn

Mexdeaf · Sep 30, 2012

Just another sign of a failed administration clinging to power. If he wins re-election (and perhaps even if he doesn't) payday will come.

th1bill · Sep 30, 2012

As a Christian, it feels like a whoopin'.

saturneptune · Sep 30, 2012

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Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...t-issue-sequestration-warnings/#ixzz27uoFbCIn
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Senator Thune is an execllent leader, and would have made a great nominee, with Pawlenty as VP. He would have wiped Obama all over the map. When you get a milquetoast like we have, the enemy does the wiping.

OldRegular · Sep 30, 2012

saturneptune said: ↑

Senator Thune is an execllent leader, and would have made a great nominee, with Pawlenty as VP. He would have wiped Obama all over the map. When you get a milquetoast like we have, the enemy does the wiping.
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I agree. both points!

OldRegular · Oct 1, 2012

According to Fox news Lockheed-Martin just caved to the skinny dictator! At taxpayers expense of course. Obammy always sticks it to the taxpayer!

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