Posted on 07/11/2013 2:50:15 PM PDT by Nachum
As the Department of Labor (DOL) celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Fair Labor Standards Act this year, the department is sponsoring a Smartphone app contest to help consumers identify businesses who treat "their workers fairly and lawfully." The DOL requests [emphasis added] that contestants:
develop a smartphone application that will transform the way the public is able to use departmental enforcement data. By providing consumers with information at their fingertips about which businesses have treated their workers fairly and lawfully, the creator of this application will help empower consumers to make informed choices about where to bring their business.
According to the Labor Department, the finished product should integrate:
the department's publicly available enforcement data with consumer ratings websites, geo-positioning Web tools, and other relevant data sets, such as those available from state health boards.
Presumably the data incorporated into the app would consist only of past infractions for which the targeted businesses have already been cited and penalized. The DOL seems to suggest the app could be used as something of a blacklist for job-seekers and other businesses:
The app could also prove a useful tool for job seekers and
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
The Obamanistas really do have too much time on their hands. And too many of our tax dollars to waste.
One of my fratmates is a history prof at a known SEC school. He researched that every occupied and socialist country throughout history had snitches that ratted out their own citizens.
It would shut down every restaurant and construction company in town.
Not telling them nothin’. I will TIP those who serve well. I have NO idea how a business treats its workers behind the scene.
What a moronic idea.
Yep. What madness has descended on this country?
Yes, Walmart has already been convicted in the court of (left-wing) public opinion.
At least, it has been convicted in the usual Alice in Wonderland way: "First the verdict, then the trial"...
Erich Honecker and his Stasi cohort would be so proud.
My brother and some other investors were planning to buy a business. On one of their jobs, which happened to be in CO, a disgruntled employee that had been fired went to the Dept of Labor saying they had not followed some rather obscure overtime rule, I think of Davis Bacon. DOL came in and did an audit. Then DOL said, since we found this infraction, we are going to audit all your jobs. The sale of the company is now on hold, no one knows what the impact of this audit will be, how long things will be in limbo, or how it will impact the value of the company. It is sickening.
Now it makes sense why big John Napalitano chose walmart to broadcast her “If you see something, say something” messages.
No, it is treason. No where in the Constitution does it say you have to treat workers FAIRLY. No where. The only reason you would ever be required to treat workers FAIRLY...is if they can't change jobs.
So what slavish hell-hole box are they trying to shove the worker into? As we see it, they are attacking the business owner, but are they? In a country where anyone is supposed to be able to pursue their dreams, their pursuit of happiness...FAIR from an employer should be meaningless.
FAIR only matters in a no growth economy, in a centrally controlled economy, in a fascist society. So the worker who wants to be treated FAIRLY, is actually asking to be treated like a slave instead of as a freeman and an individual with unique marketable skills.
Surreal? No it is treason.
Exactly. I read down the thread waiting to see who mentioned it first. Of course this is a setup for the reporting of businesses that don’t treat their employees fairly.
This is a snitch effort, tied directly to the top levels of our government.
What’s worse, is that this snitch device will be used for many additional things.
Neighbors with guns
Conservatives
People who actively support Conservative groups
Christians
This is the electronic equivalent of a network of people reporting to the NAZIs.
Is there a public source for this item? Can we publish the story on FR?
” This is a snitch effort, tied directly to the top levels of our government.
What’s worse, is that this snitch device will be used for many additional things.
Neighbors with guns
Conservatives
People who actively support Conservative groups
Christians
This is the electronic equivalent of a network of people reporting to the NAZIs.”
Nailed it.
Take the gun. Leave the Cannoli.
Yeesh!
Works for me!
Unfortunately, you are an ignorant cracker!
Recent Executive Orders have made it a felony to ask any federal or state employee their name.
You didn't get the memo?
I HATE $600 phones, and even the word "app".
I see zombies.
They are everywhere!
Nevertheless, I might change my mind, If the golden opportunity created by this article allows entrepeneurs to create apps that identify union goons, public employee goldbricks and crooks like the Chrysler "workers who did dope and booze during working hours.
Nametags, license numbers, the possibilities are endless.
Suppose... just suppose that hundreds of vehicles with government plates keep getting "app'ed" in anappropriate locations?
I love it!
Careful what you wish for, a******s!
The potential for abuse of this is staggering, not to mention the opportunity it gives the feds to presume yet another segment of the population is guilty until proved innocent and control them.
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