The Obama administration on Friday issued the final rule prohibiting federal contractors from discriminating against employees who openly discuss compensation on the job. [...] The prevalence of pay secrecy in the workplace, particularly in the private sector, is one of the “possible contributing factors to [...]

President Obama signed an executive order Monday extending paid sick leave to an estimated 300,000 federal contract workers. The change—announced, appropriately enough, on Labor Day—will ensure workers employed by companies that receive government contracts have at least seven days of paid time off each year. [...]

President Barack Obama’s Labor Day executive order will provide seven days of sick leave to employees of federal contractors, good news for some 300,000 American workers. Now the president wants Congress to approve legislation extending that benefit to the private sector. [...] The Institute for [...]