Trump Repeals Regulation Protecting Workers From Wage Theft The regulation was meant to ensure that shady employers don’t benefit from taxpayer dollars. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-repeals-regulation-wage-theft_us_58d9408ee4b03692bea814c9 Companies that commit wage theft and put their workers in harm’s way just received a favor from the Trump administration. President Donald Trump signed a bill Monday repealing a regulation that had encouraged federal contractors to follow labor laws. Under the Obama-era rule, companies with an egregious record of violating wage and safety laws would lose their government contracts if they didn’t come into compliance. The idea behind the rule was to make sure unscrupulous employers didn’t receive taxpayer dollars. But Republicans in Congress thought the rule was too punitive and unfair to businesses. They used an arcane tool known as the Congressional Review Act in an effort to kill the regulation, which was called the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces rule. __________________________________________________________________ Crooked Donnie is making sure the swamp for fellow crooks pretending to be businessmen is bigger than ever. In many cases when someone is complaining about regulations is because that person is a crook, like Crooked Donnie.
He is pro-business, so of course he is going to repeal any legislation that gets in business's way. And of course workers are going to suffer for it. That's the Republican way, sadly - giving sociopaths free rein. Under the Obama rule, firms that bid on federal contracts would have to disclose their labor violations from the previous three years, including any times they were found to have broken laws pertaining to collective bargaining, civil rights, health and safety, or minimum wage and overtime. But violations wouldn’t necessarily prevent a firm from winning a contract, so long as it took steps to take care of the problem. The Labor Department estimated that the rule would apply to 14,000 contractors each year, but “only a small share of these companies is expected to have reportable violations, and even fewer are expected to have serious, repeated, willful, or pervasive violations to report,” the agency noted. Business groups, however, vilified the regulation as a “blacklisting rule,” and they enlisted GOP members to kill it. Just last week, Republicans dismantled a different workplace safety regulation, one that required large employers to keep an accurate record of any injury for a period of five years. Workplace safety experts say repealing that rule would make it easier for companies to hide health and safety problems. Trump has not yet signed that legislation. Businesses don't like being held to account, clearly. It's been this way ever since the Industrial Revolution. Of course, not all businesses are run this way, but enough are that they bring everyone down. "Good" businesses can't really compete, so they get driven out and the abusive ones dominate, since they can sell lower and win in the market at the expense of their employees. Evidently they can also afford to buy many politicians and even entire political parties, and so they have. It's just more blatant among the Republicans.
Fake News. The CRA allows Congress to undo Obama's last minute changes as he is heading out the door. If this rule was so critical, why did Obama wait until the last flippin moment to issue it? And Trump returning to the status quo that existed all throughout the Obama mis-Administration is suddenly the end of the fuggin world and fundamental fairness as we know it? Ridiculous! !
It was signed in 2014.. how is that last minute? Two years before he leaves office isn't waiting until he "is heading out the door."
I have no clue. Judging by the source though, I would say its very heavily biased in their selection of facts.
When was it implemented? It hasn't been...it's been tied up in court since its passage. More left hysteria about nothing. I think this sums it up best: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), chairwoman of the House committee overseeing labor issues, put out a statement Thursday calling the rule “flawed and unnecessary” and “a solution in search of a problem.”
So they opposed it because of how it is executed and instituted, by an executive or not legislation. Not on principle. "“The rule simply made it too easy for trial lawyers to go after American companies and American workers who contract with the federal government,” Spicer said. “The president saw that workers, tax and businesses truly suffered under this rule.”" https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/trump-repeals-obamas-labor-rules/ So what's wrong with repealing a rule that hurts everyone but makes the lawyers rich.
You notice how they sought no statement from Republicans as to WHY they were nullifying this executive action by Obama.
The dumb bunny Dems can use that as a campaign issue with the promise that they will reinstate it when they get back in power.
More Fake News: Gee, maybe Obama should have golfed a little less and worked a little more to get the rules promulgated before the June, 2016 deadline of the CRA act? And, while it's claimed rescinding this rule unleashes hell on earth, all it does is keep us at the status quo that existed throughout the Obama Administration as the rule was already enjoined! But, "I'll get around to it someday, Obama's" labor department didn't get around to issue the Fair Pay & Safe Workplaces rule until August 25, 2016! Weird. Such a pressing issue and he waits until after the CRA deadline to issue the rule, and now everyone is whining that the via CRA, it's easily disposed of? Hilarious! The rest of the the controversial rule, as well as the Department of Labor’s guidance and the underlying Executive Order 13673 signed by President Obama on July 31, 2014, had already been stayed by a federal district court as result of multiple infirmities, including violation of the First Amendment, violation of contractors’ Due Process rights, violation of the Federal Arbitration Act, and the rule was preempted by federal labor laws, among other violations. Gee, it never occurred to you that mentioning that, might be a good idea? Unbelievable! Here you are, whining your guts out, over reversal of a rule, the authority for which was an Obama's issued to late executive order that has already been found to be unconstitutional? And you failed to note that the Obama Administration itself estimated the rule would have imposed $4 billion in costs in the next decade without any quantifiable offsetting benefit! Madness! And, of course you know that the CRA , signed into law by Bill The Zipper, gives Congress the authority to pass joint resolutions rejecting a rule within 60 legislative days after a regulation is passed. The Hapless Obama missed the June 15, 2016 deadline by months, and didn't get around to issuing it until August 25, 2016, yet the world can't live without it? But, Barack "I have my Priorities" Obama, did manage to get his March Madness brackets completed on time, nearly every year! Looks like Barack "Let's Just Wait Until The Last Minute" Obama believe the fake news polls and screwed off because he figured the Drunken Kleptocrat was going to succeed and felt no real sense of urgency. And now his lack of planning is our national emergency? I Don't Think So! http://www.bassberrygovcontrade.com...other-last-minute-obama-administration-rules/
And you failed to note that the Obama Administration itself estimated the rule would have imposed $4 billion in costs in the next decade without any quantifiable offsetting benefit! That is brilliant. Using con artist logic, this country can save even more if we don't pay employees at all. Wage theft is stealing. In this case, Crooked Donnie is trying to legalize wage theft. I know that this is real hard for right-wing socialists to understand but wages drive the economy. Empty pockets equals little economic growth.
