[Nachum]

Yeah.... I'd like you to lower the price on my dinner at your fine restaurant... looks like your workers are kinda unhappy...

[manc]

spying on us, spying on co workers, spying now on companies, how is this different to communist eastern Europe?

Call a spade a spade GOP and get some balls and that goes for some in talk radio like Hannity

[Monkey Face]

Big Brother is watching you, and Mao wants to know what you know about your neighbor. Got it.

[upchuck]

This brings to mind two questions:

1. Can you spell 1.9.8.4?

2. Are y’all pissed off enough yet?

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Labor Dept. to Ask Consumers to Identify Businesses Who Treat 'Their Workers Fairly and Lawfully'

How about making President Scofflaw act "lawfully?"

[plain talk]

How about an app that allows someone to enter the name of a government worker that does not treat its customers fairly and automatically posts the workers name (and the names of the entire management chain all the way to the President) and a description of the infraction to a website for all to see?

[cva66snipe]

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[Sooth2222]

The Obamanistas really do have too much time on their hands. And too many of our tax dollars to waste.

[Gay State Conservative]

I just started reading a book called “Stasi” which is a history on that East German “Security” Service.A review of the book that I saw said that 1 in 8 East Germans were Stasi informants and that spouses were encouraged to inform on one another as were parents and children.maybe I should be reading a history of the Dept of Labor instead.

[madison10]

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.

[UAConservative]

Erich Honecker and his Stasi cohort would be so proud.

[Old_Grouch]

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.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Take the gun. Leave the Cannoli.

Yeesh!

[metmom]

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 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.