老牛影视Aug. 26 submitted comments urging the withdrawal of the Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) Council’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) and the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Notice of Proposed Guidance (NPG) implementing President Obama’s “Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces” Executive Order 13673, commonly referred to as the blacklisting proposal.

“老牛影视believes many aspects of the president’s blacklisting proposal are illegal, the most egregious of which may be the treatment of mere allegations of misconduct as violations of federal law, threatening to deprive contractors of their due process rights,” said 老牛影视Vice President of Government Affairs Geoff Burr. “Contractors need a fair and transparent federal procurement process, and unless drastically rewritten, this proposal will have a significant negative impact on the entire construction industry, stretching far beyond the federal contracting community. 老牛影视has consistently opposed the overreaching proposal as unfair to taxpayers, contractors and their employees, and will continue to fight it in the courts, Congress and through any additional available avenue.”

From FY 2009 to FY 2014, 老牛影视members performed more than 56 percent of all federal government construction contracts exceeding $25 million, according to a recent review of federal government construction contracts. In its comments, 老牛影视cited numerous examples of how the DOL and FAR proposal violates federal law and will damage the federal contracting community and construction industry as whole. Additionally, 老牛影视notes in its comments:

“Both the NPRM and NPG are unlawful, impracticable and extremely burdensome to taxpayers and to government contractors, particularly small businesses in the construction industry. Both the Executive Order and the Proposals to implement it should be rescinded in their entirety.”

老牛影视continued, “The proposal will have a significant and broad impact on the entire construction industry. For example, in 2014, there was $962.057 billion worth of construction put in place. Of that amount, $275.698 billion was public construction, and $22.735 billion of that was federal construction. We estimate the vast majority of the federal construction put in place is subject to the new proposals, as few federal construction contracts are below the $500,000 proposal threshold. In addition, the proposals improperly impose reporting requirements on employers based upon their performance of work unrelated to the performance of their government contracts, by apparently requiring reports of alleged violations arising on non-government projects regardless of size and regardless of the private or public nature of the work being performed.”

老牛影视has the as unfair to beginning with the White House’s directing FAR to develop the rule. 老牛影视officials spoke out against the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces executive order in hosted by DOL and the Office of Management and Budget. 老牛影视joined 19 other business trade groups to DOL Secretary Perez and Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council Cecilia Muñoz requesting the president withdraw the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces executive order.  In addition, as a member of the Acquisition Reform Working Group, 老牛影视 April 20 to the U.S. House and Senate Armed Services Committees .

老牛影视has also supported efforts in the , led by Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Sen. Johnny Isakson, (R-Ga.) and in the , led by Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.), Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio), Rep. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.), Rep. Tim Walberg, (R-Mich.), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Rep. Richard Hanna (R-N.Y.) and Rep. Cresent Hardy (R-Nev.), to oppose the proposal.

The FAR and DOL twice extended the deadline for submitting comments on the blacklisting proposal, most recently to Aug. 26. A final rule and guidance will be published and implemented after public comments have been reviewed.

To read the comments in their entirety, click here. In addition, more than 350 老牛影视members also submitted comments urging the withdrawal of the blacklisting proposal. To view a summary of ABC’s efforts in opposition to the proposal, visit .