Obama Keeping 'Pink Slips' a Secret Until After..

[Joe Cocker]

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By Pete Kasperowicz - 07/31/12 01:13 PM ET

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) accused President Obama of trying to hide the effects of next year's so-called "sequester" spending cuts on government jobs in order to avoid alerting workers that they could be laid off just before the election.

"The president doesn't want people reading about pink slips in the weeks before his election, so the White House is telling people to keep the effects of these cuts secret — don't tell anybody, he says, keep it a secret — until, of course, after the election," McConnell said on the Senate floor Tuesday.

thehill.com/video/senate/241313-mcconnell-obama-defense-jobs-layoffs-pink-slips

[Mink]

I thought the Republicans hated big government and especially government jobs. What's up here?

[Joe Cocker]

Mink, the KING is breaking the law I guess you don't understand this.

SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, R-ARIZ.: Hey, look, you just can't make these things up. The incredible politicization of everything that this administration does. The Warren Act requires it. I mean, there is no gray area that requires that layoff notices be extended 60 days before the layoffs. That was so people could be prepared for losing their jobs. So, they now-- the Department of Labor, after some time ago saying they had no jurisdiction, are now saying that that doesn't have to be done.

And again, you know, everybody has a record. But again, let me just tell you a quote from Barack Obama, Senator Barack Obama on 7/17/07, there was a threat of some layoffs in Illinois, and then-Senator Obama said, "The least employers can do when they are anticipating layoffs is to let workers know they are going to be out of a job and a paycheck with enough time to plan for their future."


Well, Obama said, "We must give the Warren Act teeth to insure that workers are not left in the lurch without a job or a paycheck."

And look, the effects will be devastating. It is a fight between the three branches of government as to how to eliminate the sequestration and guess who is AWOL -- missing in action. And that's the president of the United States who has decided that it's not his problem. It is his problem as commander in chief to take care of our nation's security. It is his first and foremost obligation. And he has taken a hike.

Read more: www.foxnews.com/on-air/hannity/2012/08/02/mccain-warns-devastating-effects-pending-pentagon-cuts#ixzz22SAKwjA5

Don't worry if he could buy some votes just by not warning those getting their pink slips before the election as the law states. A KING plays and makes his own laws.

So you don't understand the system. BUSH was a progressive Republican, like John MCCAIN then you have the conservative Republican that has morals and respect of the human law. I'm guessing you don't know what that is, RIGHT?

We don't care what you do in your house just keep it in there. We don't want to pay for your responsibility and morals.

What color burka will you pick out? I like blue, I think black would be HOT!

[Mink]

Sorry joecocker, but Fox news is a biased Republican source and will naturally push the rhetoric.

What I want to know is why, all of a sudden, the GOP cares about govt. jobs?

[Joe Cocker]

Would you vote for your boss if he told your getting fired?

In these difficult economic times, many companies are considering layoffs and even plant closings, even government.

The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) protects workers, their families, and communities by requiring most employers with 100 or more employees to provide notification 60 calendar days in advance of plant closings and mass layoffs.

Employee entitled to notice under WARN include managers and supervisors, as well as hourly and salaried workers. WARN requires that notice also be given to employees' representatives, the local chief elected official, and the state dislocated worker unit.

Advance notice gives workers and their families some transition time to adjust to the prospective loss of employment, to seek and obtain other jobs, and, if necessary, to enter skill training or retraining that will allow these workers to compete successfully in the job market.

Generally, WARN covers employers with 100 or more employees, not counting those who have worked less than six months in the last 12 months and those who work an average of less than 20 hours a week.
Employees entitled to advance notice under WARN include managers and supervisors as well as hourly and salaried workers.
Regular federal, state, and local government entities that provide public services are not covered by WARN.

The Department of Labor's (DOL) Employment and Training Administration (ETA) administers WARN at the federal level, and some states have plant closure laws of their own. A State Dislocated Worker Unit Coordinator can provide more information on notice requirements in a specific area.

DOL has no enforcement role in seeking damages for workers who did not receive adequate notice of a layoff or received no notice at all. However, they can assist workers in finding a new job or learning about training opportunities that are available.

www.dol.gov/compliance/laws/comp-warn.htm

Buying votes Obama needs to send out the pink slips before the election. Following the Federal law.

Layoffs going to happen anyway you look at it but the King not following his own law on 60 day notice as end of the year firing. If you don't understand the election and 60 day pinks notices is less than 60 days.

SIGH.

[Joe Cocker]

I counted 60 days from the end of the year (Dec. 31) and it lands on on November 2, by Federal law that OBAMA help pass. Now the election is on the sixth of November. So Obama is holding up sending pinks for the layoffs notices that takes place at years end.

NOT FOX NEWS.

Layoffs GOOD? SIGH!


The Budget Control Act of 2011 famously established a bipartisan congressional “Super Committee” to come up with $1.2 trillion in budget cuts over the next decade. Alas, to the surprise of no one, the Super Committee couldn’t make even that modest commitment to fiscal restraint, so the grim machinery of “sequestration” growled to life, enforcing a series of mandatory budget cuts – which hit the military harder than any other single sector of the government.

The military employs a lot of private-sector contractors, and those contractors employ a lot of people. They’ll have to cut tens of thousands of jobs because of sequestration, effective January 2, 2013.

There happens to be a law called the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, dating back to 1988, which “offers protection to workers, their families and communities by requiring employers to provide notice 60 days in advance of covered plant closings and covered mass layoffs.”

Who’s covered by this law? “In general, employers are covered by WARN if they have 100 or more employees, not counting employees who have worked less than 6 months in the last 12 months and not counting employees who work an average of less than 20 hours a week. Private, for-profit employers and private, nonprofit employers are covered, as are public and quasi-public entities which operate in a commercial context and are separately organized from the regular government. Regular Federal, State, and local government entities which provide public services are not covered.”

SIGH!


Human Events Blog
Obama Administration asks companies to risk lawsuits by holding onto pink slips until after the election,

Hope you understand now.

SIGH!

[Mink]

No joecocker, I still don't understand why the GOP would question govt. job layoffs (they don't believe in "BIG" government)......although I have a feeling it has to do with the fact those jobs are connected with the military, not to mention President Obama has spoken.

[Joe Cocker]

There you go changing the title Mink, your talking about layoffs I'm talking about the LAYOFF LAW! THE SIXTY DAY GRACE PERIOD! THAT OBAMA HELP PASS!


OK drop it then Mink liberals progressives make their own laws. Sorry again. If they don't like the election results sue and turn the election over to their favor, by liberal progressive judges.

Let the law suits began after the election. I hope the ones knowing that their layoffs are coming vote correctly.

Oh boy.

[Joe Cocker]

I didn't think you would apologize to me for changing the debate about the 60 day layoff law, Mink. I understand your thinking though.

Progressive make up their own ideas of laws and try to change it around picking and poking.

[Joe Cocker]

Solyndra Settle With Fired Ex-Workers for $3.5 Million

Solyndra LLC, the bankrupt solar- panel maker that received a $535 million U.S. Energy Department loan guarantee, reached a $3.5 million settlement with former workers who claimed they received inadequate layoff notices.

The settlement will resolve allegations that the company failed to give employees 60 days’ notice under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act when it fired most of its 1,100 workforce on Aug. 31, just before seeking bankruptcy court protection last year.

Solyndra will set up a $3.5 million fund to be distributed to the workers two weeks after the settlement is effective, according to court papers. The settlement was jointly proposed by Solyndra and the ex-employees.

“In light of the inherent risks and costs associated with litigation of the WARN actions,” the company has “determined that the proposed settlement of the WARN claims is fair and well within the range of reasonableness,” Solyndra said in settlement papers filed Aug. 10.

Solyndra faced as much as $15 million in damages plus attorney’s fees if the workers succeeded, according to court documents.

The solar-panel maker said the agreement is also fair to workers because without it they would have to “wait years for any payment” on their claims.

Solyndra Agrees to Settle Mass-Firing Lawsuit for $3.5 Million
Bloomberg‎ - 1 day ago

[danceswithdogs]

Wait.....I just read that Mink said FOXNEWS is "biased" toward Republicans and "pushes rhetoric". Hmmm, and what would you call CNN, MSNBC, CBS and ABC? Un-biased? Fair and balanced? LOL.

[danceswithdogs]

[glow=red,2,300]Cameras catch CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien reading liberal blog during debate with Romney adviser[/glow]



CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien was recently caught on screen looking at article from a known left-wing website to assist her when debating Romney campaign senior adviser Barbara Comstock.

In screen grabs posted on Newsbusters.org, O’Brien, who was filling in Anderson Cooper, can be seen reading from a piece entitled “The Myth of Paul Ryan the Bipartisan Leader” as Comstock offers her response.

The post, which was published just hours before the program began, appeared on the website Talking Points Memo.

While she does not directly cite the blog, she does a read a quote from Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Or.) to Comstock that appears verbatim in the piece during the program.

Blogger Ali A. Akbar first posted about it on Viralread.com.

On Tuesday, O’Brien and Mitt Romney surrogate John Sununu engaged in a heated debate over Medicare on “Starting Point,” where he told her “Soledad, stop this! All you’re doing is mimicking the stuff that comes out of the White House and gets repeated on the Democratic blogs boards out there. Put an Obama bumper sticker on your forehead when you do this.”

O’Brien said her figures were from unbiased information from Factcheck.org, the CBO and CNN analysis.

Gee, Mink....doya think maybe your Lame Stream Media could be just a tad "biased" and "pushing the Democrat rhetoric"??

Seems it's about time at least ONE news source (FOXNEWS) should be allowed to present ALL sides of issues rather than just what has been fed to the masses by the Left Stream Media all these years.

A bit refreshing, dontcha think? ;D