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To: John Mansfield who wrote (20432)	7/11/1998 1:59:00 PM
From: Brian Malloy	Respond to of 31646

Sounds nice but not enough. The words of the president are not legally binding on anyone. He can suggest or say all that he wants. Only congress could pass some kind of Y2K tort liability law. However, I'm sure some group would take that to court and it would probably end up being overturned. Can you imagine them trying to define in legal terms what "goodfaith, factual Y2K information" is. At least 10,000 pages. Unfortunately, congress is too slow so we probably would not even see such a law if at all until 1999 at the earliest; and that is rather late since NY switches to FY2000 in March 99 (just eight months away for those that are counting), the Federal government in October (just 14 months away) and most of the other states switch over to Y2K between those months as well. This doesn't even look at the firms that will begin to roll over to Y2K in '99. And I really have to laugh at the make the uninformed public feel good approach to the problem. A DOL job bank for Y2K workers? give me a break. If you are qualified and you want to do Y2K work you are employed. There is no large pool of people capable of doing Y2K work looking for jobs. As it is, companies are hiring away workers from each other and the government in particular as we sit here and write.