No Sex Slave Rules

by **nomo** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 2:52 pm

<a href="http://mrvetinari.livejournal.com/38935.html">mrvetinari.livejournal.com/38935.html</a> [...] Every contract on at least one of the Uber-Bases, since April 2006, has a "No Sex Slavery" section. This is actually required (Maybe as a late reponse to DynCorp abuses in other theatres, or more likely because of a different scandal that never hit the press). And it is not just a 'Dude, I totally promise I won't buy a sex slave while I am here' but more than a page devoted to combating all the various loopholes by which one could acquire a sex slave under contract. I present for you...complete with spelling errors... the Army Contracting Office's Boilerplate NO SEX SLAVE RULES: (Beneath Cut) 13. FAR 52.222-50 Combating Trafficking in Persons (Apr 2006) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— “Coercion” means— (1) Threats of serious harm to or physical restraint against any person; (2) Any scheme, plan, or pattern intended to cause a person to believe that failure to perform an act would result in serious harm to or physical restraint against any person; or (3) The abuse or threatened abuse of the legal process. “Commercial sex act” means any sex act on account of which anything of value is given to or received by any person. “Debt bondage” means the status or condition of a debtor arising from a pledge by the debtor of his or her personal services or of those of a person under his or her control as a security for debt, if the value of those services as reasonably assessed is not applied toward the liquidation of the debt or the length and nature of those services are not respectively limited and defined. “Employee” means an employee of a Contractor directly engaged in the performance of work under a Government contract, including all direct cost employees and any other Contractor employee who has other than a minimal impact or involvement in contract performance. “Individual” means a Contractor that has no more than one employee including the Contractor. “Involuntary servitude” includes a condition of servitude induced by means of— (1) Any scheme, plan, or pattern intended to cause a person to believe that, if the person did not enter into or continue in such conditions, that person or another person would suffer serious harm or physical restraint; or (2) The abuse or threatened abuse of the legal process. (3) Withholding employee passports to, among other things, prevent employees “jumping” to other employers “Severe forms of trafficking in persons” means— (1) Sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced y force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act ahs not attained 18 years of age; or (2) The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery. “Sex trafficking” means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act. (b) Policy. The United States Government has adopted a zero tolerance policy regarding Contractors and Contractor employees that engage in or support server forms of trafficking in persons, procurement of commercial sex acts, or use of forced labor. During the performance of this contract, the Contractor shall ensure that its employees do not violate this policy. (c) Contractor requirements. The Contractor, if other that an individual, shall establish policies and procedures for ensuring that its employees do not engage in or support severe forms of trafficking in persons, procure commercial sex acts, or use forced labor in the performance of this contract. At a minimum, the Contractor shall— (1) Publish a statement notifying its employees of the United States Government’s zero tolerance policy described in paragraph (b) of this clause and specifying the actions that will be taken against employees for violations of this policy. Such actions may include, but are not limited to, removal from the contract, reduction in benefits, or termination of employment; (2) Establish an awareness program to inform employees about— (i) The Contractor’s policy of ensuring that employees do not engage in severe forms of trafficking in persons, procure commercial sex acts, or use forced labor; (ii) The actions that will be taken against employees for violation of such policy; (iii) Regulations applying to conduct if performance of the contract is outside the U.S., including— (A) All host country Government laws and regulation relating to severe forms of trafficking in persons, procurement of commercial sex acts, and use of forced labor; and (B) All United States laws and regulations on severe forms of trafficking in persons, procurement of commercial sex acts, and use of forced labor which may apply to its employees’ conduct in the host nation, including those laws for which jurisdiction is established by the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act of 2000 (18 U.S.C. 3261-3267), and 18 U.S.C. 3271, Trafficking in Persons Offenses Committed by Persons Employed by or Accompanying the Federal Government Outside the United States; and (C) All international laws regarding transit/exit/entry procedures, requirements for work visas, and all Host Country entry and exit requirements (3) Provide all employees directly engaged in performance of the contract with a copy of the statement required by paragraph (c)(1) of this clause and obtain written agreement from the employee that the employee shall abide by the terms of the statement; and (4) Take appropriate action, up to and including termination, against employees or subcontractors that violate the policy in paragraph (b) of this clause. (5) Provide a minimum of 50 square feet of personal living space per worker when living space is a necessary and required element of the contract. Contracting officer’s may grant a waiver in cases where the existing square footage is within 20% of the minimum and the overall conditions are determined to be acceptable. (6) Provide workers with a signed copy of their employment contract that defines the terms of their employment / compensation (e.g., salary, currency, work hours, overtime, vacation, etc.) and ensure sub-contractors provide the same to their workers. (7) Not utilize unlicensed recruiting firms, or firms that charge illegal recruiting fees (d) Notification. The Contractor shall inform the contracting officer immediately of— (1) Any information it receives from any source (including host country law enforcement) that alleges a contract employee has engaged in conduct that violates this policy; and (2) Any action taken against employees pursuant to this clause. (e) Remedies. In addition to other remedies available to the Government, the Contractor’s failure to comply with the requirements of paragraphs (c) or (d) of this clause may render the Contractor subject to— (1) Required removal of a Contractor employee or employees from the performance of the contract; (2) Required subcontractor termination; (3) Suspension of contract payments; (4) Loss of award fee for the performance period in which the Government determined Contractor non-compliance; (5) Termination of the contract for default, in accordance with the termination clause of this contract; or (6) Suspension or debarment. (f) Subcontracts. The Contractor shall include the substance of this clause, including this paragraph (f), in all subcontracts for the acquisition of services. ...I think by these standards, about half of all marriages, and nearly all high-maintenance girlfriends are acts of prostitution/sex-slavery. I should also ask my boss if my mandatory sexual-coercion-avoidance class was, and was it before or after I flashed him my balls. Maybe I should ride around asking employees if they have been given this class, reporting the violators, and then making a killing selling 'certified' don't-be-a-sex-slave classes, which I would present in the least tasteful way possible: "Class, if you are engaging in the sort of acts we are about to display in front of you... as part of your employment... that means you are being involved in sex slavery... even if the ball-gag and zipper-mask do not come into play...or the dirty sanchez, hot ham sandwich, cleveland steamer, dutch oven, cowgirl, reverse cowgirl, ladies' happy seat, purple nurple, etc.... all of which we will be displaying... no you cannot leave, if you want your certification." And that is how I think I could best contribute my particular skill-set to the war on terror.

No Sex Slave Rules

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