Tom Mason, Partner, Cooley LLP

Two recent executive orders to introduce new wage equality standards for federal contractors really just mean business as usual. That's according to Tom Mason, a...

Two recent executive orders to introduce new wage equality standards for federal contractors really just mean business as usual. That’s according to Tom Mason, a partner for Cooley LLP that provides legal representation for federal contracting companies. He’s also a contributor to the Federal Contractor Compliance Watch blog. As part of Federal News Radio’s special report Trust Redefined: Reconnecting Government and its Employees, he contractors typically don’t have many compliance issues with social reforms because their relationships with agencies already include a high level of trust. That’s what he tells In Depth with Francis Rose.

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