Sustainable Procurement: A Closer Look at the New Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)
DE Under 3: FAR Council Seeks to Require Federal Contractors to Report First-Tier Subcontractor Information, Including Potentially Executive Compensation Data
New Wave of Pay Transparency Requirements Affects Employers and Federal Contractors
Recent Bid Protest Decisions Reshape Strategies for Future Government Contractor Success
DE Under 3: FAR Council's Latest Proposed Rule & OFCCP's 10 New FAQs on Compensation History
Excitement, Turbulence & Confusion: The Top 10 Employment Law Issues That Affected Federal Contractors in 2023
Successor Government Contractor Hiring Obligations Change: DOL’s Long Awaited Nondisplacement Rule
DE Under 3: FAR Council Submitted for OMB Approval Proposed Rule on “Pay Equity and Transparency in Federal Contracting”
DE Under 3: FAR Council Issued Final Rule Requiring Unionized Workforces on Large Federal Construction Projects
Intellectual Property In Department of Defense Contracting
Podcast - Navigating the TikTok Ban: Implications for Government Contractors
[Podcast] TikTok off the Clock: Navigating the TikTok Ban on Devices for Government Contractors
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Clocking in with PilieroMazza: #LNE4GovCons: FAR Clause Bans TikTok on Federal Contractor Devices
DE Under 3: President Biden Issued "Modernizing Regulatory Review" Executive Order
Overcoming the Inflation Crisis: The Ins and Outs of Inflation Relief for DOD Contractors
Additional Compensation from the Government: A Brief Comparison of REAs and Claims
Podcast Series: Commercial Businesses New to Government Contracting: Labor and Employment Issues Unique to Government Contractors
Buy American: What Government Contractors Need to Know
Bid Protest: LPTAs - Are They Still Okay? - Webinar
On Monday, June 24, 2024, a federal judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas (the Court) instituted a nationwide injunction on the enforcement of portions of the US Department of Labor’s (DOL) 2023...more
Last week a Texas federal judge ordered the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to respond to an amended complaint seeking to block the Biden Administration’s new regulations under the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts (DBRA) filed by...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers Under Service Contracts Rule is back. After publication as a final rule in December 14, 2023, the Rule is now in effect and will apply to all new Service...more
The Biden administration’s Fall 2023 United Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions included a variety of near and long term regulatory plans for federal agencies, including regulatory action for pay equity and...more
Our compliance experts John C. Fox and Candee Chambers are back for their highly-anticipated recap of all things employment law from the past year. As they look back, they'll chat about the top 10 issues affecting federal...more
On December 14, 2023, the Department of Labor published a Final Rule implementing Executive Order 14055, Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers Under Service Contracts, effective February 12, 2024. The rule establishes that...more
Department of Defense (DOD) Notice and Request for Comments: Negotiation of a Reciprocal Defense Procurement (RDP) Agreement with the Republic of India - On October 10, 2023, DOD issued a notice that, on behalf of the...more
Beginning on January 1, 2024, Executive Order 14026 (Order) will raise the minimum wage for workers performing work on or in connection with covered contracts to from $16.20 to $17.20 per hour, a second year of a significant...more
Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR): Sustainable Procurement, Case 2022-06 - Department of Defense, General Services Administration, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration are proposing to amend the FAR to...more
When a company enters into a contract with the federal government, they become a prime contractor. When that prime contractor purchases “commercial items” from another company in support of a federal contract, that company...more
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS - Veterans Affairs Imposes Increased Cybersecurity Rules on Government Contractors - The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) released a final rule, effective February 24, 2023, amending the...more
On January 1, 2023, the minimum wage for government contractors under Executive Order 14026 increased from $15.00 per hour to $16.20 per hour. We wrote about Executive Order 14026 and its requirements previously here. There...more
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS - SBA’s Proposed Rule Alters the Landscape for Size and Status Protests - On September 9, 2022, the Small Business Administration issued a proposed rule (the Rule) making substantial changes to the...more
The DE OFCCP Week in Review (WIR) is a simple, fast and direct summary of relevant happenings in the OFCCP regulatory environment, authored by experts John C. Fox, Candee Chambers and Cynthia L. Hackerott. In today’s edition,...more
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS - New SBA Rule Enhances Past Performance Opportunities for Small Businesses - On August 22, 2022, the Small Business Administration will implement a final rule that provides two new methods by which...more
To avoid displacement of current service employees, the proposed rule will require contractors and their subcontractors to offer qualified employees a right of first refusal of employment under the successor contract. ...more
Executive Order 11246 (the "Executive Order") and Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) contract clause 52.222-26 (the "FAR Clause") long have imposed important employment-related requirements on government contractors and...more
The DE OFCCP Week in Review (WIR) is a simple, fast and direct summary of relevant happenings in the OFCCP regulatory environment, authored by experts John C. Fox, Candee Chambers and Jennifer Polcer. In today’s edition, they...more
Through a new Executive Order, President Biden has revived and revamped the Obama-era requirement that successor contractors with Service Contract Act contracts hire their predecessor’s employees...more
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The Government Contracts and Global Trade Group is pleased to provide a summary of some of the key class deviations and other memoranda published by U.S. Government agencies implementing the federal contractor COVID-19...more
On September 24, 2021, the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force (the “Task Force”) issued its guidance (the “Guidance”), under Executive Order 14042 (the “Executive Order”), requiring employees of workplace locations with...more
The Department of Labor (DOL) is publishing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) detailing proposed regulations implementing new minimum wage requirements that certain federal contractors must pay workers performing work...more
President Biden recently signed an executive order (EO) that will increase the minimum wage rate to be paid to workers performing work on or in connection with a federal contract from $10.95 per hour to $15.00 per hour...more