Executive Order Proposed to Cover ‘Blacklisting’ for Government Contractors
The U.S. Department of Labor has issued proposed guidance and the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council has issued proposed regulations requiring government contractors and subcontractors to report regularly on workplace law violations found by administrative agencies, the courts, and arbitrators, reports Jackson Walker in a new paper.
The regulations are part of the implementation of President Barack Obama’s “Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces” Executive Order (E.O. 13673), often called the “Blacklisting” or “Bad Actors” executive order.
“The government would take an employer’s record of violations into account when deciding whether to award future contracts, cancel existing contracts, and potentially demand remedial action to address a pattern of violations,” the authors write in the article posted on Lexology.