OBAMA Office of Management and Budget is now promising to compensate defense contract

[akatrex]

We’ll Reimburse Employers for WARN Act Fallout

The Office of Management and Budget is now promising to compensate defense contractors for any legal penalties that would stem from violating the WARN Act, a federal law that requires employers to warn employees at least 60 days in advance of mass layoffs. The Obama administration had already been urging contractors to ignore the WARN Act in the case of the looming sequestration cuts, since the 60-day-minimum would mean hundreds of thousands of employees could get notices of pending layoffs just days before the presidential election.

 

[richard_daily]

The US shouldn't be hiring mercenaries.

 

[Busybody]

We’ll Reimburse Employers for WARN Act Fallout

The Office of Management and Budget is now promising to compensate defense contractors for any legal penalties that would stem from violating the WARN Act, a federal law that requires employers to warn employees at least 60 days in advance of mass layoffs. The Obama administration had already been urging contractors to ignore the WARN Act in the case of the looming sequestration cuts, since the 60-day-minimum would mean hundreds of thousands of employees could get notices of pending layoffs just days before the presidential election.

LAWS

ARE

FOR

LITTLE

PEOPLE

 

[XdOu™]

too bad he's losing it

 

[akatrex]

Al Gore said the reason Obama Sucked at the Debates was because of the ALTITUDE!

 

[Sean Renaud]

The US shouldn't be hiring mercenaries.

This isn't about mercenaries. It's about the military industrial complex as a whole.

 

[kbate]

It is interesting.

What Obama should be doing is touting his extended unemployment benefits and telling the defense contractors that when they are laid off due to cutbacks caused by republican obstructionists, he is the one who guaranteed they will have some income for the next 2 years.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It is interesting.

What Obama should be doing is touting his extended unemployment benefits and telling the defense contractors that when they are laid off due to cutbacks caused by republican obstructionists, he is the one who guaranteed they will have some income for the next 2 years.

Do not forget the economic miracle of multipliers...

 

[Busybody]

MEGAN MCARDLE ON THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S LAYOFF-NOTICE FLIMFLAMMERY:



Presumably the purpose of the law is not to create legal fees; it is to give employees notice of potential layoffs so that they can arrange their finances and otherwise plan for the hard times that may be coming down the road. If the Obama administration does not think that employees should have notice of these potential dangers, then it should say so forthrightly, and try to get this very bad law repealed. On the other hand, if it thinks that maybe it’s a good thing for employees to have advanced notice that they might soon not have a paycheck, then it seems odd to first, pressure contractors not to send those notices, and second, offer to help the contractors avoid paying any legal damages that their failure might have incurred.

Now, the administration argues that the notices aren’t required, because the sequester might not happen. But that’s a matter for the court to determine, not the administration. If the administration is correct, then there should be no need to sweeten the pot. But if there is a real risk that employees will win a lawsuit, then it seems wrong to put the taxpayers on the hook for what is essentially an Obama campaign expense.


Wrong? Maybe. But it’s also their core approach in all sorts of ways.