Is Obama trying to hide your pink slip?

[eoforwic]

Obama continues to promote breaking the law whenever needed for political purposes.

President Barack Obama is trying to keep middle-class Americans in the dark about whether they'll lose their jobs from impending defense cuts as a Labor Department memo cautioning contractors about layoff notices set off political recriminations.
“For too long, employers have failed to notify workers that they’re about to lose their jobs due to mass layoffs or plant closings even though notice is required by the WARN Act,” then-Sen. Obama said in a July 17, 2007 press release. “The least employers can do when they’re anticipating layoffs is to let workers know they’re going to be out of a job and a paycheck with enough time to plan for their future.”

During his 2008 presidential campaign, Obama also railed against loopholes that allowed employers to avoid complying with the law — which is basically what his DOL seems to be advising now.

“Now, I believe we must act at the federal level to close the loophole that allows employers to disregard the WARN Act without penalty,” he said in statement to the Toledo Blade.

As senator, Obama even cosponsored the 2007 FOREWARN Act, which would have extended the minimum notice to 90 days and increased both the penalties for violating the law and the government’s ability to enforce it.

"The president doesn't want people reading about pink slips in the weeks before his election, so the White House is telling people to keep the effects of these cuts a secret until after the election," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Tuesday in a speech on the Senate floor.

The memo advised federal contractors - major defense firms among them - that they do not have to warn their employees about potential layoffs from the automatic, across-the-board budget cuts that kick in Jan. 2. A law, known as the WARN Act, says those notices would have to go out 60 days in advance, arriving in mailboxes four days before the Nov. 6 election.

The guidance letter said it would be "inappropriate" for employers to send such warnings because it is still speculative if and where the $110 billion in automatic cuts might occur. About half the cuts would be in defense.

[eoforwic]

yes

[max]

he thinks he's doing you a favor by sticking it to your boss so he has to lay you off so you can get on unemployment and foodstamps.......no thanks barry....

[fychan97]

What's scary is what will happen in January if taxes go up again on the wealthy - those wealthy people who employ others will be cutting jobs; then Obamacare will cut jobs, unemployment will go through the roof.

[alen wast]

I think its true.......