Posted on 10/01/2012 7:55:19 AM PDT by maggief
Lockheed Martin said Monday it will not issue employee layoff notices this year, ending an election-year showdown with the Obama administration.
The company said it based its decision on new guidance issued Friday by the Office of Management and Budget and the Pentagon.
The guidance said the Pentagon did not anticipate killing any contracts on Jan. 2, the day automatic spending cuts are set to begin hitting defense spending. The guidance also said federal government would cover severance costs that are mandated under a federal layoff notices law.
The decision by Lockheed means thousands won't get layoff notices weeks or days before Election Day, which might have cast a crucial blow against President Obama's reelection chances. But Republicans are likely to argue last week's guidance was a politically-motivated effort by the administration to protect Obama.
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Then they will be fined for not doing it........
Obama also said don’t worry about fines ,we’ll take care of that
Don’t they mean after Obama’s threats?
Mark Levin had it right. It is a LAWLESS administration that simply ignores the laws they don’t like. In a “normal” world, this guy would be impeached.
Did they get it in writing?........
OBEY OBAMUGABE!
more self-cenetered caving by folks who don’t care about the country anymore. probably doesn’t matter. if the workers are paying attention they already no what will happen whether yhey get the notice now or later
or, like so many smart people in their specific field (and too many possibly soon to be ex-friends) they don’t know crap about the real world because they get their information from tv news.
Ever notice with Obama? If there is a absolute law, one that gets in his way, he literally just waivers it? People, this mentality, combined with a massive internal security apparatus, combined with universal interal spying is *exactly* what a totalitarian nation looks like.
“Don’t they mean after Obama’s threats?”
http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/awx_10_01_2012_p0-501528.xml
Pentagon Seeks Competition For Sustainment Of Lockheed F-35
By Reuters
October 01, 2012
The Pentagon on Friday moved toward bringing in other companies to operate and maintain its most expensive weapons program, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a step that could reduce revenues for the current prime contractor, Lockheed Martin Corp.
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"The decision by Lockheed means thousands won't get layoff notices weeks or days before Election Day, which might have cast a crucial blow against President Obama's reelection chances."
In an ironic way, this might actually make matters worse for Obama: if you work for a defense contractor and management decided that your job is safe, you would've known once the layoff notices were sent. Now almost everybody working for them is going to be living in fear of being laid off because of the uncertainty...
They’ll just do like Boeing and layoff 30 a week hoping no one notices.
Obama’s guidance, what a joke.
5.56mm
It's criminal, It's a political payoff with our money.
What does Boehner and McConnell have to say.As if I didn't know. Where is the criminal investigation? Where is the Media, Lockheedgate
Many people will be shocked by what is about to happen to this country. Massive layoffs, foreclosures and food riots will be on the ‘TV news’ every night for years to come. That is, until the electricity is shut off when the power companies no longer will be able to generate it because of environmental regulations and no income to pay their workers.............
If obama gets re-elected we deserve every miserable thing coming our way.
Yes , it's criminal alright...but I guess there is "no controlling legal authority that says that is any violation of any law",ALL GORE
WE don’t, but those who support (MSM and $$$) and vote for him do...............
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