Government Accountability Office (GAO) which measures the extent of labor law violations by several federal contractors in the U.S. The GAO investigated federal contractors cited for violating federal labor laws enforced by the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Occupational Safety...
President Barack Obama on July 31, 2014, which requires employers bidding on large federal contracts to disclose violations of labor laws cited by any U.S. Department of Labor agency in the previous three years. Topics discussed include the appointment of advisors to assist contracting officers, ...
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They avoid liability for violating labor law requirements. Furthermore, they will avoid liability for paying the employee during that time.One example of this being set out and enforced is in the case of EMB Contracting Corp. (2008) in New York. The state panel sided with an employer who ...
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71 In addition, it extended contracting authority to clinical social workers, although it permitted health plans to require referral by a psychiatrist as a condition for reimbursement.72 The act also expressed the sense of Congress that enrollees in FEHB should receive adequate treatment for mental ...
laws such as the Service Contract Act (now known as the Service Contract Labor Standards) and the Davis-Bacon Act. Failure to pay wages and benefits to workers under these acts in a timely fashion could result in violations of these laws, leading to debarment. This issue can also ca...
This was followed by an executive order by President Barack Obama that repealed the ban on Project Labor Agreement (PLAs), while also encouraging the use of PLAs by agencies on contracts of $25 million or more. Rounding out the contracting shift are the new provisions of the Federal ...
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These "contractors" are non-governmental workers and private companies who receive contracts from government agencies to provide products or services. They save the government money upfront by reducing demand on the federal workforce and resources. Some of the biggest contracting agencies are the Depart...