"So,,,,,,Let's Cripple Home-Builders, Too!!"

With MACT, Obozo's boyzzz have threatened to virtually eliminate industry.  With the coal-burning regs, the Obozos will take out about 12.5% of electric-generating capacity countrywide.  With the de facto halt to drilling permits on US territory, they've dis-employed several tens of thousands near the Gulf and in the West.

What remains?  Home-building contractors.

Many larger home builders, while acquiring land for homes and marketing them, entrust much of the construction to carpenters, electricians and others employed by contractors. The contractors rarely are unionized. …

Some industry officials said they thought the Labor Department might be trying to establish that a general construction contractor, such as a large home builder, is a “joint employer” of a subcontractor. That would make the general contractor liable for wage-and-hour violations at its subcontractor.

“There has been a movement afoot in many instances fueled by the unions to force the subcontractors to be employees of the builders, because the next step is to unionize them,” said [Jerry] Howard of the National Association of Homebuilders.

How to remedy this threat to the Republic?  Easy.  Drown 'em in paperwork!

 A copy of one letter, dated Aug. 1 and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, said the department was opening a probe under the Fair Labor Standards Act, which governs matters such as overtime pay and limits on using teen workers.

The letter instructed the home builder to immediately turn over the names, addresses, Social Security numbers, pay rates and hours worked for all employees over the past two years. It asked the names of all contractors hired in the past year. The letter didn’t allege any specific violations of law.

The March of the Statists continues.

HT:  MoonBattery