By Melissa Quinn
The Daily Caller
August 1, 2012
On Monday, the Department of Labor sent a letter to
all state workforce agencies, administrators and liaisons, hoping to
deter defense contractors from notifying employees of diminishing
government funding, and urging them to forget about telling employees
about the potential for massive layoffs “right before Election Day.”
As lawmakers on Capitol Hill work to deliver a solution to a looming
deadline that could “sequester” billions from the defense budget, the
Obama administration is advising defense contractors to forget about the
Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act – ensuring
employers that the standards in the law need not apply to them.
“Such federal announcements would be sudden and dramatic, and in such
cases, consistent with the WARN Act, employers would not have to
provide the full period of notice,” the letter stated.
While defense contractors and GOP lawmakers have been probing the
White House for guidance on the sequestration, the Department of Labor’s
only suggestion is to delay notification until after the November 6
election.
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