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Obama exempts all military personnel from sequestration cuts
President Obama will exempt all military personnel accounts from the $500 billion defense cuts under sequestration, the Obama administration said in a letter to Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
Acting Office of Management and Budget director Jeffrey Zients told Congress the president is exercising his authority in the Budget Control Act to exempt military personnel from the 10-year sequestration cuts, according to the letter obtained by The Hill.
The decision to exempt personnel will place further strain on the budget accounts that defense contractors rely on for weapons programs, should the automatic spending cuts occur.
http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hil...ama-exempts-military-personnel-from-sequester
This goes on top of Obama's corrupt administration to wave layoff notices.....
Labor Dept. says no need for warning on layoffs
By By SAM HANANEL – 1 day ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Labor Department said Monday that federal contractors do not have to warn their employees about potential layoffs from across-the-board budget cuts that could begin on Jan. 2.
In a guidance letter, the agency said it would be "inappropriate" for employers to send such warnings because it is still speculative if and where the $110 billion in automatic cuts might occur. About half the cuts would be in defense.
The letter comes days after a Pentagon official said Defense Department contractors could be sending their workers layoff notices four days before the Nov. 6 presidential election.
That prospect has unnerved the White House because it would affect thousands of defense workers in presidential battleground states such as Florida, North Carolina and Virginia.
Under the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, employers of companies with 100 workers or more are required to provide notice 60 days in advance of a plant closing or mass layoffs.
The GOP chairman of House Armed Services Committee claimed the new guidance was politically motivated.
"People will still get laid off because of the president's irresponsibility, but they won't have the notice to protect themselves and their families," California Rep. Buck McKeon said.
The guidance comes as major defense contractors are bracing for the possibility of mass layoffs. Lockheed Martin, for example, has told Congress that across-the-board reductions could result in layoffs of 10,000 employees out of the company's 120,000 workers.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap...yzLHgg?docId=3ccc736e290349b18840108570a0457d
According to the WARN Act, there are only three exceptions to 60-day notice:
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act
Notification Period
With three exceptions, notice must be timed to reach the required parties at least 60 days before a closing or layoff.
(1) Faltering company. This exception, to be narrowly construed, covers situations where a company has sought new capital or business in order to stay open and where giving notice would ruin the opportunity to get the new capital or business, and applies only to plant closings;
(2) Unforeseeable business circumstances. This exception applies to closings and layoffs that are caused by business circumstances that were not reasonably foreseeable at the time notice would otherwise have been required; and
(3) Natural disaster. This applies where a closing or layoff is the direct result of a natural disaster, such as a flood, earthquake, drought or storm.
None of which apply here, unless you want to call Democrats ‘a natural disaster.’
There is no mention of any exception because giving notice might hurt Obama and the Democrats in an upcoming election. But as we have seen time and again, laws mean nothing to the Obama administration.
