layoffs. assistant labor secretary jane oates posted this notification. as we first reported, 46 days ago, the law called the warn act, requires that mass layoffs be announced to employees 60 days beforehand. we re talking about mass layoffs threatening the defense industry. since tt sequester cuts take effect on january 2 snd. what that initially meant that announcement at the big defense contractors would go out november 3rd, as you can see that s three days before the presidential election. obviously those are not headlines that obama wants. so enter the labor department. here s the letter. oates writes, quote, the warn act notice to employees of federal contractors including in the defense industry is not required 60 days in advance of january 2, 2013 and would be inappropriate. yes. the administration is reinterpreting the law on the sly. because after all this was sent out and they declined to make anyone available to interview this tonight. of course this was a manna f
as we first reported, 46 days ago, the law called the warn act, requires that mass layoffs be announced to employees 60 days beforehand. we re talking about mass layoffs threatening the defense industry. since tt sequester cuts take effect on january 2nd. what that initially meant that announcement at the big defense contractors would go out november 3rd, as you can see that s three days before the presidential election. obviously those are not headlines that obama wants. so enter the labor department. here s the letter. oates writes, quote, the warn act notice to employees of federal contractors including in the defense industry is not required 60 days in advance of january 2, 2013 and would be inappropriate. yes. the administration is reinterpreting the law on the sly. because after all this was sent out and they declined to make anyone available to interview this tonight. of course this was a manna from heaven for the republicans. the president doesn t want people readin
everyone. i m erin burnette. is the president hiding up to 200 layoffs. assistant labor secretary jane oates posted this update. now, it was quietly posted to the labor department s website just yesterday. as we reported 46 days ago the law called the warn act calls for employers to announce layoffs of employees 60 days before hand. we re talking about ones like the ones related to the defense industry thanks to the 2 hnt $1 trillion in sequestration cuts. since they take effect on january 2nd, here s a calendar. layoff announcement that the depence contractors would go out november 3rd. as you can see, that s three days before the presidential election. obviously those are not headlines barack obama wants. enter the labor department. here s the letter. the warn act notice to employees of federal contractors including defense industry is not required 60 days in advance of january 2nd 2013 and would be inappropriate. yes, the administration is reinterpreting the law on the sly
david corn, a big surprise, another mitt romney enterprise, and all the records that we d like to look at tonight are missing. it s shocking, isn t it? who would have thought? who could have guessed? who would have speculated? in your wildest est est imagination, you could not conceive of this, right, lawrence? well, it happens that just a few days ago, we at mother jones put together a list of things that mitt romney is hiding. and that includes not just the olympic records, but also his bundler s s s bundlers. his e-mails and correspondence while he was governor. they were destroyed. in fact, he had his own people buy their own hard drives and put them god knows where so there was though way you could access them afterwards. even letters s s between him and his dad seem to be missing from the george romney archives. and of course, don t forget those tax returns, his offshore tax havens, and his i.r.a. so there s a lot that he s hide hiding. so the olympic flame doesn t cast much
david corn, a big surprise, another mitt romney enterprise, and all the records that we d like to look at tonight are missing. it s shocking, isn t it? who would have thought? who could have guessed? who would have speculated? in your wilde esest imaginationu could not conceive of this, right, lawrence? well, it happens that just a few days ago, we at mother jones put together a list of things that mitt romney is hiding. and that includes not just the olympic records, but also his bundler bundlers. his e-mails and correspondence while he was governor. they were destroyed. in fact, he had his own people buy their own hard drives and put them god knows where so there was though way you could access them afterwards. even letter s between him and hs dad seem to be missing from the george romney archives. and of course, don t forget those tax returns, his offshore tax havens, and his i.r.a. so there s a lot that he s hi