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The Department of Labor Has Your Business in Its Sights: Act Now to Prevent Costly Penalties Later

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President Joe Biden has signed off on the most recent government funding bill, which allocates $13.4 billion to the United States Department of Labor (DOL), including $260 million earmarked for the DOL’s Wage and Hour...more

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Beltway Buzz - October 2023

Shutdown Fallout: McCarthy Out. On September 30, 2023, the U.S. Congress acted quickly—and surprisingly—to pass stopgap funding legislation to avoid what looked to be an inevitable shutdown of the federal government. With a...more

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

Construction Wage Requirements on Federally Funded Projects: New Labor Department Rule Updates Davis-Bacon Wage Requirements...

Developers and owners who obtain federal funds on construction projects and those contractors and trades performing work have long understood the impact of the Davis-Bacon Act (“DBA”) on their projects, particularly as it...more

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More Legal Mandates & Changes Impacting the U.S. Construction Industry: Department of Labor’s Updated Davis-Bacon & Related Acts...

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Hold onto your hard hat! What you thought you knew about federal Davis-Bacon prevailing wage law is changing --- substantially changing decades of well-established rules, precedent and interpretations as to the applicability...more

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Labor Department’s Davis-Bacon Act Final Rule: Changes for Federal Contractors

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The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Updating the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts Regulations final rule includes hundreds of pages of changes to the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts (DBRA) standards and is estimated to impact over...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

A Guide to The U.S. Department of Labor's ‘New' Davis-Bacon and Related Acts Regulations

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For the first time in 40 years, the Department of Labor (DOL) updated its interpretation and implementation of the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts in new final rules. DOL’s new final rules concerning the prevailing wages and...more

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Changes Coming for Government Construction Contractors as DOL Revises Davis-Bacon Act Regulations

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On August 8, 2023, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL or the Department) issued a Final Rule titled “Updating the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts Regulation” (the Final Rule), comprising 812 pages. The changes made in this Final...more

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Biden Administration to Overhaul Prevailing Wage Determinations for Federally-Funded Construction Projects

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The Biden Administration announced on August 8, 2023, the issuance of a final rule from the Department of Labor (DOL), Wage and Hour Division, that overhauls the prevailing wage pay requirements for construction workers...more

DirectEmployers Association

OFCCP’s Congressional Budget Justification Is Chock-Full of Insights Into the Agency’s Future Plans & Past Performance

The 34-page OFCCP full fiscal year (“FY”) 2024 Congressional Budget Justification (“CBJ”) revealed key aspects of the agency’s future plans and past performance metrics. We reported last week that OFCCP’s FY 2024 budget...more

DirectEmployers Association

OFCCP Week In Review: June 2022 #4

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

DirectEmployers Association

OFCCP Week In Review: April 2021 #2

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

DirectEmployers Association

OFCCP Week In Review: January 2021

Special Edition Week In Review: Read all about it! While many of you were at holiday over the last two weeks, your federal government was not, and a lot of news hit the wire. So, we were there and can now report what you...more

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WPI Insider Briefing: What Will the Second Hundred Days of the Trump Administration Hold?

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From the workplace policy perspective, much of the focus of the first 100 days of the Trump administration was on confirming a new Secretary of Labor and reversing the Obama administration’s labor and employment agenda....more

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Rising Wages – The Expansion of Philadelphia’s Prevailing Wage Ordinance

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On Thursday, October 27th Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney signed into law legislation that expands the scope of the city’s prevailing wage ordinance to encompass service employees at universities, hospitals and other businesses...more

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Contractor Working On Federally-Funded Solar Project Settles Davis-Bacon Act Claims for $1.9 Million

On October 23, the Department of Labor reported that Proimtu Mmi-Nv LLC, a Nevada-based company, agreed to pay $1.9 million in back wages and fringe benefits as the result of a DOL investigation of its compliance with the...more

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