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Project Monitoring: The “Eyes & Ears” of Construction - Third Edition

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Meta Description: Learn about the significance of project monitors in the construction industry. Understand their role, daily tasks, and impact on ensuring accuracy, value, and timeliness toward project completion....more

Foley & Lardner LLP

New California Laws Set Stage for the Future

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The Biden Plan for Strengthening Worker Organizing Collective Bargaining and Unions specifically endorses several California employment laws as models for the whole country. Accordingly, the many new employment laws set to...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Annual California Legislative Recap - October 2018

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Another year has passed in the California Legislature, with new laws and amendments affecting California employers. Among the more significant changes, bills prompted by the #MeToo movement, including the new requirement...more

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Subcontractor Wages: Closing the Loopholes

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This year California ushered in a new law effective January 1, 2018 for private works construction contracts, California’s Labor Code section 218.7. The law applies to all direct contractors who make or take the contract in...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Direct Contractors In California Should Take Steps Now To Reduce Exposure For Unpaid Wages By Subcontractors

As of January 1, 2018, direct contractors in California who make or take a contract “for the erection, construction, alteration, or repair of a building, structure, or other private work” are jointly and severally liable with...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Prevailing Wages: SB 96

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The following Q&A were from a recent Best Best & Krieger LLP free webinar “SB 96: Department of Industrial Relations’ New Prevailing Wage Penalties.” The webinar was presented as part of an ongoing series...more

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Construction One-Minute Read: California Officials Put Additional Pressure on General Contractors to Prevent Wage Theft

General contractors’ top priorities on a construction project are completing the work on time, completing the work within budget, and guarding against future construction defect claims. New and pending laws in California,...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

California Court Rejects Alleged Joint Employers' "It Wasn't Me" Defense to Worker Misclassification Claims

Notwithstanding—and perhaps because of—the emergence of the so-called "sharing economy" and its proliferation of disruptive new business models, as well as calls to re-examine the traditional and familiar employee versus...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

New California Law Holds Employers Liable for Labor Contractor’s Wage Violations

California Governor Jerry Brown recently signed into law A.B. 1897, significantly expanding the potential liability of employers who use labor contractors, subcontractors, or staffing agencies for workers. Effective January...more

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Governor Brown Signs Bill Making Companies Liable for Employment Violations of Independent Labor Contractor Companies

This weekend, California Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 1897. This bill creates new Labor Code section 2810.3, which applies to all but a very limited number of companies with 25 or more employees (i.e., the...more

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California Public Works Contractors Must Register With State by March 2015

The California Legislature imposed a new registration requirement for contractors and subcontractors involved in public works projects. Senate Bill 854, passed in June, created a registration program, which went into effect...more

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