Speaker. Secretary of Labor Ray Donovan. in an action overwhelmingly opposed by the business and labor communities. has inexlicably announced his intention to revoke the 40yearold prohibition against industrial homework in the garment industry and several other regulated industries. Business and labor agreed. at a hearing on this subject held by the Labor Standards Subcommittee of which I am chairman. that revocation of the rule will undermine legitimate. lawabiding businesses. stimulate the proliferation of sweatshops. make enforcement of the Fair Labor Standards Acta stated goal of Secretary Donovana practical impossibility. and encourage the employment of illegal alien workers. There is a virtually no support for this proposal. as described in a recent article in the New Republic which I want to share with my colleagues. The overwhelming opposition to the Secretarys unwise action. which is described in the article. has only become even more magnified in the intervening weeks.
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