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Elijah Cummings: “The lack of protections for employees gave people the opportunity to do things that were typically not against the rules…”

On the recordMarch 1, 2017
The lack of protections for employees gave people the opportunity to do things that were typically not against the rules because the rules were so flexible but very questionable when you looked at it from a moral or ethical point of view
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Elijah Cummings
Democratic · Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Cummings refers to Hatfield's statement on the absence of employee protections leading to ethical issues.

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