As part of a Labor Day gesture to workers’ groups, President Obama signed an executive order requiring federal contractors to provide their employees with the ability to earn up to 56 hours of paid sick leave each year. The executive order—the details of which are discussed in this post— could affect some 300,000 workers and … Continue Reading
A draft executive order would require paid leave for employees of many federal contractors. The “confidential” draft order, which was labeled “pre-decisional and deliberative,” was obtained and reported by The New York Times on August 5, 2015.… Continue Reading
