(He's still focused like a laser on the issue)
Posted on 08/18/2011 10:20:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The White House announced that President Obama will deliver a major address on job creation early in September. Mr. Obama could address proposed Labor Department regulations that would hobble employers with paperwork, reducing hiring.
These regulations include affirmative action rules for minorities and women at on-site construction jobs for federally-funded projects; requirements for federal contractors to keep records of the race, sex, and earnings of employees; rules governing dust levels in coal mines; and rules to expand preferences for veterans in the workplace.
Such regulations are even more extraordinary in light of Mr. Obama's avowed pursuit of regulatory simplicity and reform. He has issued executive orders to cabinet agencies and to independent agencies to evaluate costs and benefits of regulations.
The president's regulatory agenda, available at www.reginfo.gov, lists 4,257 proposed rules now pending, up from 4,225 in the fall, and 3,943 a year ago. On one hand, Mr. Obama asks for simplification. On the other, his agencies spew out more rules, more paperwork requirements.
Space does not permit detailed discussion of all these rules.
Consider just one, the proposed Labor Department rule from the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs entitled "Affirmative Action and Nondiscrimination Obligations of Contractors and Subcontractors Regarding Protected Veterans." It takes up 67 single-spaced pages in the Federal Register. The comment period closed on July 11, and the Department is reviewing comments in order to publish a final rule notice by December.
About 26 million workers are employed by federal contractors, according to the Labor Department's Web site, almost one-fifth of the economy's 139 million employed workers. The more time and money an employer must devote to regulatory compliance, the less likely the employer is to hire new hands. Like it or not, that's a fact of life.
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To all you Federal contractors and subcontractors out there. Good news !! Some new rules for you if you want to get the contract:
• Contractors would have to list job openings for veterans with an “appropriate employment service delivery system.” This means that the Office of Federal Contract Compliance has to approve of the employment agencies where job vacancies are posted.
• Contractors would have to maintain annual records of referrals of all job candidates, referrals of veterans, and the ratio of veteran referrals to all referrals. This would be substantial paperwork burden. If employers did not get enough veteran referrals, they could get dropped as federal contractors.
• Employers would have to print notices of employee rights and contractor obligations in Braille and large print for workers who are visually impaired. If they are visually impaired, additional accommodations would have to be made.
• Contractors’ affirmative action programs for veterans would have to be reviewed and updated annually, as well as mental and physical requirements for job descriptions.
• Contractors would have to engage in outreach and recruitment efforts in order to make sure that veterans hear about the openings and apply.
• Employers would have to conduct mandatory all-employee and management meetings to discuss their affirmative action policies and make sure everyone understands them. Currently, such notices must be posted on employee bulletin boards in full view, often in cafeterias or outside human resources offices.
obama python
constricting the economy into a
slow death.
For those that are interested, I believe that President Eisenhour deported 13 million Mexicans and/or other illegals so that returning war vets could find jobs. It worked. Took him about two years to accomplish it but it worked. Have we lost our commitment to our country and our vets? Where will our vets, that return from Iraq and Afghanistan, find jobs?
Ever notice the “shovel ready projects” that are being talked about by the WH are all union projects?
(He's still focused like a laser on the issue)
Obama’s jobs policy is that there are no new private sector jobs, expansion of the public sector, and extension of unemployment benefits.
Obama’s jobs policy is that there are no new private sector jobs, expansion of the public sector, and extension of unemployment benefits.
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