{"id":7923,"date":"2010-12-04T00:10:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T05:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7923"},"modified":"2010-12-04T00:10:40","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T05:10:40","slug":"obama-labor-department-announces-business-harassment-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7923\/obama-labor-department-announces-business-harassment-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Labor Department Announces Business Harassment Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are two kinds of licensed professionals you don\u2019t want to see the word \u201ccreative\u201d describe: accountants and lawyers.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the top lawyer at the Obama Labor Department just released a to-do list that could double as a well-conceived strategy memo for business-hating bureaucrats concerned they may not have enough power.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> columnist John Fund\u2019s recent article <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703377504575650700370696396.html\" target=\"_blank\">the solicitor at Labor proposes the following actions<\/a> to increase the regulatory burden on private enterprise:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify a public affairs liaison in each Regional Office to send stronger, clearer messages to the regulated community about DOL\u2019s emphasis on litigation.<\/li>\n<li>Engage in enterprise-wide enforcement. (A euphemism where multiple sites of a business are visited by surprise on the same day by more than one enforcement agent.)<\/li>\n<li>Engage in greater use of injunctive relief (i.e. litigation and court orders), while also identifying and pursuing test cases to \u201cstretch the meaning of the law.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With the workforce experiencing 9.8% unemployment, this kind of strategy \u2013 and heaven forbid, enforcement \u2013 will only make matters far worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two kinds of licensed professionals you don\u2019t want to see the word \u201ccreative\u201d describe: accountants and lawyers.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the top lawyer at the Obama Labor Department just released a to-do list that could double as a well-conceived strategy memo for business-hating bureaucrats concerned they may not have enough power. In Wall Street Journal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1138,2135,1530,1589,300],"class_list":["post-7923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-bureaucracy","tag-department-of-labor","tag-john-fund","tag-litigation","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7924,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7923\/revisions\/7924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}