President Trump signs a bill that rescinds an Obama administration rule requiring prospective federal contractors to disclose their labor violations in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Monday. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg News)President Trump signed a bill Monday that killed an Obama-era worker safety rule that required businesses competing for large federal contracts to disclose and correct serious safety and other labor law violations. Earlier this month, the Senate voted to eliminate the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces rule, which applied to contracts valued at $500,000 or more. Votes on the bill in both the House and Senate divided along party lines. Since 2015, the report says, more than a third of the 100 largest OSHA penalties have been imposed on federal contractors.

Source: Washington Post March 28, 2017 00:02 UTC