Contractor debarred for inadequate payroll records
Contributed by Husch Blackwell Partner Terry L. Potter, Esq. Once again a contractor covered by the Davis-Bacon Act has been penalized for not maintaining adequate payroll records. In Pythagoras...
View ArticleDOL isn’t the only game in town; Contract Disputes Act jurisdiction for wage...
Jurisdictional issues arising from disputes about wages and benefits required by federal minimum wage statutes like the Davis-Bacon Act and the Service Contract Act can be tricky. In some cases, the...
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How current federal contractors are affected by the new $10.10 minimum wage
As part of the Obama Administration’s push to raise the minimum wage, the President announced during his State of the Union speech that he intends to issue an Executive Order raising the minimum wage...
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Obama’s Executive Order on the new federal contractor minimum wage
President Obama signed an Executive Order raising the minimum wage for employees of federal contractors on February 12, 2014. Our earlier entry on the issue discusses how a higher minimum wage will...
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Overkill or the new normal? Criminal charges for underpayment of prevailing...
Criminal charges for minimum wage violations are certainly rare. But the November 2015 indictment of electrical contractor Marcus Butler shows that they are possible. Mr. Butler faces jail time and...
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Mandatory paid sick leave for contractor employees
On February 25, 2016, the Department of Labor proposed regulations requiring many government contractors to provide up to seven days of paid sick leave to employees. The proposal seeks to implement...
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DC Circuit rules that the Davis-Bacon Act does not apply to Public-Private...
We have previously written about the Department of Labor’s effort to expand the scope of its regulatory and enforcement jurisdiction over government contractors against the wishes of Congress and even...
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