Dive Brief:

• President Obama's latest bid to bring change despite a permanently deadlocked Congress is not making anyone happy at Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC).
• The organization says its members who work on federal contracts will have to spend more to meet a new requirement in an executive order issued Tuesday to give the Department of Labor information on what employees are paid along with related data about workers' gender and race.
• The order gave the Department of Labor 120 days to write a rule to implement it, but ABC says it expects the process to take as much as a year and challenges to be made along the way.

Dive Insight:

At the same time it was criticizing the executive order, the contractors group was saying that Senate legislation called the Paycheck Fairness Act had several deficiencies from a business viewpoint. The bill, S. 2199, failed in its backers' first effort to bring it to the Senate floor, and it is considered unlikely to ever come up in the House of Representatives.