The White House Office of Management & Budget has announced that it will be submitting a proposal to Congress to cap reimbursement levels for executives of federal contractors at rates no higher than the salary of the President. The current cap for calculating reimbursements is $763,000, and will need to be raised to $950,000 under
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2012 starts off with questionable recess appointments
By Keith A. Ashmus on
Posted in Labor Management Relations, NLRB
Earlier today the White House announced recess appointments to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the National Labor Relations Board. The appointments were asserted to be recess appointments despite the fact that the Senate has not technically been in recess under the historical understanding of that term. Indeed, Congress has gone out of its way…