Oh my, If George Bush did this in 2004, the liberals would be preparing the gallows.
From Fox News: 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."
The projected $500 billion in Pentagon cuts under the so-called
sequestration will occur because Congress failed to agree on a
deficit-reduction plan this summer.
The guidance issued by the Labor Department this summer stated "it is
neither necessary nor appropriate" for federal contractors to issue the
warnings.
The memorandum states the federal government would cover employee
compensation under the WARN Act – "irrespective of the outcome" as long
as the contractor follows the Labor Department guidelines.
Still, defense contractor Lockheed Martin -- which might have to lay
off employees should the cuts kick in -- is still considering whether to
send out the notices, according to The Hill newspaper.
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