Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 18:48:25 -0400
From: Robert Weissman <rob@essential.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list CORP-FOCUS <corp-focus@essential.org>
Subject: Focus on the Corporation follow-up: Anti-Scofflaw Alert
A few weeks ago, the Focus on the Corporation column was titled "A Law and Order Regulation for Corporations." The subject was a proposal to prevent the U.S. government from entering into contracts with companies that are chronic or serious violators of labor, environmental, tax, antitrust or employment laws. This note is a follow up to that column.
For more details, see the Essential Action web page,
The federal government is now accepting comments on the proposed regulation. Business groups are weighing in heavily against it; and so if the proposal is to be enacted, it is vital that citizens and public interest groups submit comments in support of the regulation.
It is easy to submit comments -- even a comment that says nothing more than, "I support the principle that the federal government should not contract with companies that seriously transgress the law" is valuable, and comments can be submitted by e-mail (as well as regular mail).
For background on the proposed regulation, and tips on what to say in comments, see the Essential Action web page, http://www.essentialaction.org/anti-scofflaw. You can e-mail comments directly to the agency from this page.
If you are so eager to send comments that you don't even want to check the page, you can send them by e-mail to farcase.99-010@gsa.gov or by regular mail to:
General Services Administration
FAR Secretariat (MVR)
1800 F Street, NW, Room 4035 ATTN: Laurie Duarte
Washington, D.C. 20045
Be sure to mention in all written comments that you are commenting in reference to FAR case 99-010.
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