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OFCCP Week In Review: October 2023 #5

DirectEmployers Association on 10/30/2023

Wednesday, October 25, 2023: Senate Confirmed Nomination of Jessica Looman to Head US DOL’s Wage and Hour Division - Senator Sullivan Only Republican Voting in Favor - By a 51-46 largely party-line vote, the U.S. Senate...more

OFCCP Week In Review: June 2022 #3

DirectEmployers Association on 6/20/2022

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 J. Chambers and Cynthia L. Hackerott. In today’s...more

Second Circuit Adopts “Contract Coverage” Standard as Governing Standard for Unilateral Changes

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 8/18/2021

The NLRB’s “contract coverage” standard for determining whether a collective bargaining agreement privileges an employer to unilaterally change terms and conditions of employment received support last week from a federal...more

OFCCP Week In Review: June 2020

DirectEmployers Association on 6/2/2020

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

Labor Development Impacting Developers, Contractors, and Landowners

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 5/24/2019

It is unlawful for unions to secondarily picket construction sites or to coercively enmesh neutral parties in the disputes that a union may have with another employer. This area of the law is governed by the National Labor...more

Under Construction - December 2016

Snell & Wilmer on 12/8/2016

Welcome to the winter 2016 edition of our Under Construction newsletter. We hope your year has been good to your family, your company and you as we wrap up these remaining few weeks of 2016. A recent hot topic with...more

NLRB’s Expanded “Joint Employers” Test: The Employers’ Perspective

Perkins Coie on 9/1/2015

The decision by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) last week in BFI Newby Island Recyclery expands the circumstances in which two otherwise separate and independent employers may be found to be joint employers of a...more

Potential Liability of General Contractors for Actions of Subcontractors on PLA Projects

Holland & Knight LLP on 1/16/2014

A Third Circuit ruling in a case brought by a sheet metal workers union raises the possibility that general contractors may be liable if their subcontractors fail to assign work in accordance with the terms of a project labor...more

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