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Deregulation of the day: Repeal of rule requiring government contractors to disclose labor violation
Tom GaraVerified account @tomgara 15h15 hours ago
Deregulation of the day: Repeal of rule requiring government contractors to disclose labor violations during bidding
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Republicans Set To Kill Rule On Labor Violations By Federal Contractors
https://www.buzzfeed.com/coralewis/republicans-set-to-kill-rule-on-labor-violations?utm_term=.vuzVvdbdp#.vqo5MrbrZ
The rule requires federal contractors to reveal past wage theft and worker safety violations during the bidding process.
posted on Mar. 6, 2017, at 12:59 p.m.
Cora Lewis
President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order to begin the rollback of environmental regulations. Pool / Getty Images
A rule requiring federal contractors to disclose past wage theft and worker safety violations when bidding for new contracts is set to become one of the latest Obama-era regulations overturned in the first months of the Trump administration.
House Republicans voted to overturn the rule earlier this this month, and the Senate is considering the repeal on Monday. The final step will be approval from President Trump, who has made dismantling Obama-era corporate regulations a signature priority of his administrations first 100 days.
In a letter to Congress in February, business groups including the US Chamber of Commerce said the rule for federal contractors was costly, unnecessary and unworkable and will only tie up law-abiding employers in red tape and make a system intended to protect workers less efficient.
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts said in a statement that repealing the act would make it easier for companies to cheat their employees and threaten workers health and safety.
Too often, federal contractors break labor laws while continuing to suck down millions in taxpayer dollars, she wrote. A report released Monday by Warrens office found that 66 of the federal governments 100 largest contractors have been documented breaking federal wage and hour laws, including endangering workers in ways that have led to injuries and death. Nearly a quarter of the US workforce is employed by a company that holds a federal contract.....................
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Deregulation of the day: Repeal of rule requiring government contractors to disclose labor violation (Original Post)
riversedge
Mar 2017
OP
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)1. You mean protection removal
Regulations are protections.
https://georgelakoff.com/2017/01/28/the-publics-viewpoint-regulations-are-protections/
Panich52
(5,829 posts)2. Another campaign lie revealed
Only the snakeoil kool-aid drinkers could believe someone w/ such a terrible history regarding workers would think he'd fight for them when in WH.