Labor hid it's own data

[The Grand Nudger]

In a completely unsurprising turn of events for the trump administration, it appears that the DOL intentionally omitted data that they claimed they had not generated, and could not generate, regarding a proposal to allow employers to steal their employees tips.  

Senior department political officials—faced with a government analysis showing that workers could lose billions of dollars in tips as a result of the proposal—ordered staff to revise the data methodology to lessen the expected impact, several of the sources said. Although later calculations showed progressively reduced tip losses, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta and his team are said to have still been uncomfortable with including the data in the proposal. The officials disagreed with assumptions in the analysis that employers would retain their employees’ gratuities, rather than redistribute the money to other hourly workers. They wound up receiving approval from the White House to publish a proposal Dec. 5 that removed the economic transfer data altogether, the sources said.

https://bnanews.bna.com/daily-labor-repo...businesses

So, first they cooked the books..but even that wasn't enough to satisfy, and they went with the strategy of a full throated lie in support of deceit by omission. I don't know, in today's america..if that's gross malfeasance or a job well done? I guess, this time at least, it was a gift to a slightly less shitty NRA? In related "news"....

Issue: We are challenging the U.S. Department of Labor’s position that it can apply its 2011 federal tip-credit restrictions to employers who don't take a tip credit. Specifically, the DOL says it can prohibit these employers from setting up tip-pooling arrangements that include employees who are not customarily tipped, such as back-of-the-house staff.

http://www.restaurant.org/Restaurant-Law...ip-Pooling

Thoughts, opinions?