Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 28: Construction Compliance with Joan Moore and Mim Munzel of The Arbor Consulting Group
DE Under 3: FAR Council Seeks to Require Federal Contractors to Report First-Tier Subcontractor Information, Including Potentially Executive Compensation Data
DE Under 3: Contractors Have Second Opportunity to Comment on OFCCP’s Supply & Service Contractor Portal Information Collection
Preparing for Major Changes to DOT’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise DBE Program
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: What Federal Contractors Need to Know About OFCCP's New Audit Scheduling Letter
[Podcast] TikTok off the Clock: Navigating the TikTok Ban on Devices for Government Contractors
Partnering to Win: Teaming, Subcontracting, Joint Ventures, and Mentor Protégé Agreements
Construction Roundtable: Top 4 Legal Risks for Federal Construction Contractors
DE Under 3: OFCCP's Modified Proposal to Revise Scheduling Letter & Itemized Listing Revealed Via Newly Proposed Documents
Flow-Down Clauses in Federal Government Contracts - Tutorial 1 (Fundamentals)
Joint Venture Basics for Large and Small Contractors
Webinar: Trademarks and Government Contracting
Bidding for Major Contracts? Compliance Requirements You Should Prepare for Now
#WorkforceWednesday: Independent Contractor Rule Reinstated, OFCCP Targets Pay Equity Audits, OSHA Focuses on Health Care Facilities - Employment Law This Week®
Government Contractors: Preparing for OFCCP’s Affirmative Action Program Compliance Certification
DE Talk | OFCCP in 2022: Lean Staff, Big Goals & New Changes Afoot
Construction Webinar Series: Construction Contractors: Considerations in Subcontracting Plans and OFCCP Compliance
Construction Webinar Series: The Infrastructure Bill’s Impact on DOT’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program
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District of Columbia AG Brian Schwalb settled with contractors Power Design, Inc. (PDI) and John Moriarty & Associates of Virginia, LLC (JMA), along with multiple labor subcontractors, to resolve allegations that the...more
Employer wage and hour violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and other applicable state laws are some of the most frequent in the construction industry. They are often the costliest an employer can make. However,...more
Workers’ compensation insurance audits can lead to big and unexpected costs for your company, especially now that insurers and state governments are pushing for policyholders to ensure that their independent contractors and...more
Insurance lead generation industry take note because an Illinois federal court recently held that Allstate violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act as a result of the actions of its third party, independent contractors...more
After several years of disjointed regulations between the Small Business Administration ("SBA") and the Federal Acquisition Regulation ("FAR") related to the limitations on subcontracting, revised FAR regulations are on the...more
In the April 2023 OnSite issue, the Saiber Construction Law Column discussed a 2022 case in which the Supreme Court of Maryland held that a party who hires an independent contractor is generally not liable to an employee of...more
In a case of first impression in Washington, the Washington State Supreme Court held that a landowner may satisfy its duty to guard an invitee “against known or obvious dangers on the premises by delegating the duty of...more
Q&A with the Carolina Small Business Development Fund - We are fortunate to have connected with Kevin Dick, the President & CEO, and Emily Blevins, Marketing & Communications Director, of the Carolina Small Business...more
Monday, June 5, 2023: Based on Either An Unannounced OFCCP Policy Change Or Error, OFCCP Published A CSAL Identifying 250 “Construction Contractors” For Audit - Via an email to stakeholders, OFCCP announced the publication...more
In ExxonMobil Corporation vs. National Union Fire Insurance Company, the Texas Supreme Court recently held that ExxonMobil was an additional insured under an umbrella policy procured by its subcontractor. Additionally, the...more
Under New Jersey law, parties who hire independent contractor are not responsible for harm that occurs to the contractor’s employees as a result of the very work that the employee was hired to perform. In September 2022, the...more
In Allstate Veh. & Prop. Ins. Co. v. Glitz Constr. Corp., 2023 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 1180, 2023 NY Slip Op 01171, the Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division, Second Department (Appellate Court), considered whether a...more
In 2022, federal and state laws regulating wages and hours of work continued to change and develop. In “2022 Wage and Hour Developments: A Year in Review,” we look back on significant wage and hour developments at the federal...more
Reposted from the Labor & Employment Law Navigator Blog - On Monday December 5, 2022, Cleveland City Council passed the Wage Theft and Payroll Fraud Prevention Ordinance (the “Ordinance”) – which prohibits the City of...more
On August 2, 2022, the New Jersey Supreme Court in East Bay Drywall, LLC. v. Department of Labor and Workforce Development, issued a unanimous opinion holding that workers, hired on a need and availability basis, who used...more
For businesses using independent contractor vendors, misclassification claims are usually well-suited for class certification. A plaintiff’s path toward certifying a class can be relatively smooth when all vendors of a...more
An Initial Threshold Test Is Not Required in Order to Apply the “ABC Test” in Dynamex - Introduction - In the past few years, California employers and courts have grappled with the impact of Dynamex Operations West,...more
This week, we look at a range of developments shifting the enforcement approach across federal agencies and how employers can comply with these shifts. Texas Court Reinstates DOL Independent Contractor Rule A district...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
Welcome to FP Snapshot on Manufacturing Industry, where we take a quick snapshot look at the most significant workplace law developments over the past month with an emphasis on how they impact manufacturers. OSHA Penalties...more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more
In a recent decision, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) confirmed that the framework used in federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) cases, not the ABC classification test set forth in Massachusetts’ independent...more
Employers in the nation’s third largest state have a lot of new employment law items to consider this fall. Following is a summary of some of the more significant items affecting those with workers in the Sunshine State. ...more