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Obama Administration Will Pay Companies to Violate the Law
 | By Heritage Foundation Hans von Spakovsky and Amy Payne (Bio and Archives) Friday, October 26, 2012 | Print friendly | Subscribe | Email Us |
The Obama Administration’s disregard for the law has struck again—and this time, it’s encouraging others to violate the law at taxpayer expense.
That’s worth saying again: The Obama Administration is encouraging people to violate a law, and promising that it will use taxpayer money to cover fines incurred from this action.
The law: The law in question is called the WARN Act, and it requires that federal contractors send employees layoff notices 60 days before a plant closing or mass layoff.
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