Texas
federal judge Marcia Crone has issued a preliminary injunction blocking
enforcement of the Obama administration’s labor regulation which would have
required contractors, and eventually subcontractors, to publicly disclose
alleged violations of 14 federal labor, safety, health and employment rules,
and related state laws, before seeking federal contracts worth more than
$500,000.00 after April 25, 2017. According to Judge Crone’s opinion “The
public disclosure and disqualification requirements being imposed on federal
contractors and subcontractors are nowhere found in or authorized by the
statute on which [the rule and Labor Department guidance] relies.”
The
lawsuit challenging the rule was brought by the Associated Builders and
Contractors and the National Association of Security Companies, while the rule
was supported by the Laborers International Union of North America.
