Administration puts contractors on notice about labor law
violations  Friday - 8/1/2014, 5:18am EDT  Jason Miller,
Executive Editor, Federal News Radio  Download mp3    "So over
the past few years, my administration has taken steps to make
the contracting process smarter. But many of the people who
award contracts don't always have the information that they need
to make sure contracts go to responsible companies," the
President said before signing the order. "And I want to be
clear, the vast majority of the companies that contract with our
government, they play by the rules. They live up to the right
workplace standards. But some don't. And I don't want those who
don't to be getting a contract and getting a competitive
advantage over the folks who are doing the right thing, right?
That's not fair. Because the ones that don't play by the rules,
they're not just failing their workers, they're failing all of
us. It's a bad deal for taxpayers when we've got to pay for poor
performance or sloppy work."  The EO req