Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Order

DOL Proposes Rules For Compliance With Obama’s Fair Pay And Safe Workplaces Executive OrderLast summer, President Obama signed the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order, which requires government contractors hoping to secure contracts of over $500,000 to disclose state and federal labor law violations from the past three years. This week, the U.S. Department of Labor issued proposed rules defining exactly what “federal law violations” must

President Obama Strikes (Signs) Again with the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Order
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Employers will have to report previous labor law violations to bid for federal government work beginning soon. On the heels of President Obama’s executive order prohibiting LBGT discrimination by federal contractors, the President signed yet another executive order—this one requiring disclosure of labor and