The One Question I Would Ask President Obama During the Debates

Four years ago, Dan Schwartz, on his Connecticut Employment Law Blog, answered the following question: What One Question Regarding Labor & Employment Law Would You Ask the Candidates During the Debates? With this election cycle’s debates on the horizon, Dan has put out a challenge for his fellow employment law bloggers to answer the same question this year.

Four years ago, you campaigned on a promise to help working families. You promised to expand the FMLA to cover smaller employers, and promised that employers would be required to provide paid sick days to all employees. Yet, four years later, your track record on these issues is spotty at best. The only accomplishment to which you can point is the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. What can you say to working families to earn their trust that the next four years will be different?

Tomorrow, my question for Mitt Romney.

Written by Jon Hyman, a partner in the Labor & Employment group of Kohrman Jackson & Krantz. For more information, contact Jon at (216) 736-7226 or jth@kjk.com.