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APNewsBreak: Obama orders to test workplace ideas
Yahoo News ^ | 04/06/2014 | AP

Posted on 04/06/2014 8:32:27 AM PDT by Rusty0604

Lacking congressional backing to raise wages or end gender pay disparities, President Barack Obama is imposing his policies directly on federal contractors, following a long-established tradition of presidents exerting their powers on a fraction of the economy directly under their control.

This week, the president will sign an executive order that would prohibit federal contractors from retaliating against employees who discuss their pay with each other.

In addition, Obama on Tuesday will direct the Labor Department to adopt regulations requiring federal contractors to provide compensation data based on sex and race.

Federal contracting covers about one-quarter of the U.S. workforce and includes companies ranging from Boeing to small parts suppliers and service providers. As a result, presidential directives can have a wide and direct impact. Such actions also can be largely symbolic, designed to spur action in the broader economy.

Federal contractors, however, worry that additional compensation data could be used to fuel wage related lawsuits, said James Plunkett, director of labor policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

What's more, he said, such orders create a two-tiered system where rules apply to federal contractors but not to other employers. Those contractors, knowing that their business relies on the government, are less likely to put up a fight, he said.

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1 posted on 04/06/2014 8:32:27 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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2 posted on 04/06/2014 8:37:21 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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Defense Contractors that are in this business in supplying goods and services to the government know how to play this game much, much better than the government.

Obama can only effect un-negotiated contracts. IOW, every change he makes to a contract already negotiated and in force HAS to compensate the contractor for any requirements it deems necessary that incur added costs to the contractor.

In effect, he will be driving up the cost of the government doing business (paying more money to contractors) to meet his silly ass edicts.


3 posted on 04/06/2014 8:37:59 AM PDT by Gaffer (Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
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Another day, another executive order from the Stinkburger POTUS.


4 posted on 04/06/2014 8:38:06 AM PDT by windsorknot
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So when does he sign the collectivization order?


5 posted on 04/06/2014 8:38:10 AM PDT by livius
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To: windsorknot

They have no idea whatsoever how the MIC works. There affirmative action graduates who think they can just fart out policy and have it implemented.


6 posted on 04/06/2014 8:39:37 AM PDT by Gaffer (Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
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I give it a year, maybe two.


7 posted on 04/06/2014 8:40:09 AM PDT by null and void (I don't mind getting older, but I hate wearing out!)
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Isn't the Obama administration a contractor of the people? Will his administration be required to disclose this information to the people?
8 posted on 04/06/2014 8:40:36 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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This week, the president will sign an executive order that would prohibit federal contractors from retaliating against employees who discuss their pay with each other.

Wait, why would anyone do that anyway? I'm sure there's some convoluted reasoning involved ("it could sow dissent among employees" or some other nonsense), but is there actually a good reason?
9 posted on 04/06/2014 8:43:19 AM PDT by arderkrag (To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others. - Buddha)
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Soon they will just change the contract rules and the definition of “Federal contractor” so that all businesses fall under it.


10 posted on 04/06/2014 8:47:18 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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Personally, think people should be able to talk about anything they want to talk about.
When I was younger and more radical, I thought it might be a good idea for people to talk about paychecks, and let the truth all hang out. Who's getting shafted? Who has got the sweet deal?

As I got older, I realized that money conversations in the workplace breed bad feelings almost 100% of the time.

But your mileage may vary.

11 posted on 04/06/2014 8:48:41 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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Soon they will just change the contract rules and the definition of “Federal contractor” so that all businesses fall under it.

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
-- Benito Mussolini

12 posted on 04/06/2014 8:49:41 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: liberalh8ter
Will his administration be required to ...

Rules and laws don't matter to this lawless jack wagon.

13 posted on 04/06/2014 8:50:48 AM PDT by windsorknot
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Maybe, but they can’t change a contract already in place except to cancel it, which they can do for virtually any reason. They cannot increase the cost by adding requirements and not paying for the extra costs incurred by the contractors. If they cancel a contract, then recompete or reissue, there still has to be a cost analysis and justification. This is why our administration is, frankly, nothing more than a bunch of power-mad AA idiots. They really don’t know what they are doing.


14 posted on 04/06/2014 8:51:23 AM PDT by Gaffer (Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
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you people who have until this point been making PENS..will henceforth work at making Phones..

You people who have until this point been making PHONES..will henceforth work at making Pens.

Thus spake obamazilla


15 posted on 04/06/2014 8:54:58 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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Lemme guess
Boehner will start crying


16 posted on 04/06/2014 9:01:14 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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At my first job with a defense contactor, so many of the people managed projects that wages were generally known to everyone. If I had a small project in which the local boss and a VP from Washington might attend a meeting, I had to know what they made to budget for them. At my second non-defense job, pay was kept secret from everyone but the bosses and HR.


17 posted on 04/06/2014 9:02:32 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Republican amnesty supporters don't care whether their own homes are called mansions or haciendas.)
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The community organizer strikes. Sow the seeds of discontent amongst employees of these contractors to undermine and destroy his enemies.


18 posted on 04/06/2014 9:04:20 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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I am sooooo glad I focused on doing business with commercial organizations rather than the govt.

The typical small business rep for these agencies think they are experts but they know nothing.


19 posted on 04/06/2014 9:04:42 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Hey that looks just like Kal Penns’ phone.
20 posted on 04/06/2014 9:05:24 AM PDT by Polynikes (What would Walt Kowalski do. In the meantime "GET OFF MY LAWN")
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