” The government said it would cover legal costs”
Suuuuuure it will.
It seems this could be an issue for Romney. It shows Obama attempting to bribe private businesses to keep the pink slips on hold until after November ..bonus points for the utter dysfunction and irresponsibility of government/Congress.
It’s because of the video.
We are in the hands of criminals.
Any contractor who follows this blatantly illegal directive from this criminal administration should be held in disdain AND REMEMBERED.
Obama is an illegal president who has defied more laws than any president. Now he asks corporate America to save his skinny buns for political reasons, by ignoring another law? Obama’s Attorney General would be the first in line to bust any corporation Obama disagrees with. All US businesses will be safer to follow the law to the letter!
Please raise this in the Debates, Romney. Obama fails on every front here: this is illegal, immoral (maybe a crazy law, but it’s a law, so follow it and allow people to recover), and a threat to national securuty. Defense cuts are needed, but they ARE being done thoughtlessly, leaving potential holes in our defense.
Suuuuuure it will...
Let me assure you, the contractors know what’s going on even if they don’t officially hear it.
And last week the Air Force announced the overseas out sourcing of Phase Maintenance of F-15s and F-16s to a subdivision of Korean Air Lines in South Korea. More jobs Americans used to do.
Dear leader, those of us in the industry aren't stupid and we know there is not such things as Obama phones. I won't be happy until this bum is out of a job and picking up beer cans on the side of the road to pay for his hamburgers
Missile defense agency already cutting. I’ve got a buddy that is a contractor there, well, was. He just found out earlier this week that his last day is next Friday. He and a couple dozen others. And so it begins. You think he or any of his fellow newly unemployed are voting for hussein? Ha!
So the WH has just publicly requested the Defense Industry violate the Warn law.
But that wasn’t enough, no....the WH has also publicly announced they will use taxpayer funds to pay the legal fees for them to violate the Warn law.
And the only reason for this is to avoid bad pr before the election.
Another scandal that would have taken down any other president - but this one.
This is the carrot...
The stick will be that companies not complying with the wishes of the administration will be frozen out of government contracts.
I’m in defense work, and I know the corporate weenies will cave.
Interesting perspective on the whole hussein administration. The rules don’t apply to them. When given a choice, as they have right now, where they could follow the law they choose not to. They would rather break the law and fight a legal battle than simply oh, follow the law like they swore an oath to uphold. Bunch of lying, self-serving POS...
already started...BIG FLATS, N.Y. (AP) — Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., citing declining military budgets and a tough economy, said it will close its plant in upstate New York and eliminate all 570 jobs.
Employees at the 5-year-old facility, which has seen its ranks dwindle from a peak of 1,300, were told Monday that the plant would close as of Dec. 31 and its work transitioned to Sikorsky's West Palm Beach, Fla., facility.
Folks, every time I think the Obammunists couldn’t possibly be more abusive and more contemptuous of we the taxpayers and citizens and the rule of law, they prove me wrong. Every time I think nothing they do will astonish me, I’m astonished. In this case, they are so desperate to maintain power that they are encouraging government contractors to break Federal law and have the taxpayers pay their fines!
I really don’t know why I’m astonished any more. The Obammunists are essentially national social fascists and this sort of intimidation is a perfect example. (BTW, for those of you who may be unclear, fascism is an economic system in which most of the means of production and property in general is privately held, but the government is so highly regulative and intimidating at every level, that the private owners do the bidding of the government at the minutest level, motivated primarily by fear and in some cases, greed, a la crony capitalism.)
This sort of gov’t indirect control of so-called “private” business was at the heart of the Italian Fascist and German National Socialist systems.
Update with more info from The Hill:
But the Friday guidance from the Office of Management and Budget raised the stakes in the dispute, telling contractors that they would be compensated for legal costs if layoffs occur due to contract cancellations under sequestration — but only if the contractors follow the Labor guidance.
The guidance said that if plant closings or mass layoffs occur under sequestration, then “employee compensation costs for [Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification] WARN act liability as determined by a court” would be paid for covered by the contracting federal agency.
Senate Republicans, who accused the White House of trying to hide job losses after the first guidance, said Friday that the new OMB statement “puts politics ahead of American workers.”
“The Obama Administration is cynically trying to skirt the WARN Act to keep the American people in the dark about this looming national security and fiscal crisis,” Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) said in a statement. “The president should insist that companies act in accordance with the clearly stated law and move forward with the layoff notices.”
The fight over WARN Act notices began in June when Lockheed Martin CEO Bob Stevens said his company might send the notices to all 123,000 of its employees.
Many liberal companies have been laying off like crazy but doing so in small amounts to avoid the laws that require public notification. Boeing, for instance, has been laying off groups of 30 or so every few weeks.