CAGW Names Jeffrey Zients Porker of the Month

October 31, 2012

(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) named Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Jeffrey Zients its October 2012 Porker of the Month for promising to pay the legal fees of federal contractors who, under Department of Labor (DOL) orders, do not issue layoff notices to employees whose jobs could be in danger due to looming spending cuts. Large employers are obligated under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) to issue layoff notices 60 days in advance of a \”reasonably foreseeable\” event, such as the automatic spending cuts, or sequestration, triggered by the Budget Control Act of 2011. Instead, contractors who follow OMB’s instructions have been promised that any litigation fees that arise from layoffs without prior notice will be covered by taxpayers.