The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was signed into law by President Biden on November 15. Described as a once-in-a-generation investment into the Nation’s infrastructure and ability to compete, it aims to address a wide range of issues. A key component of the...
The Davis-Bacon Act (DBA), Davis-Bacon Related Acts and the McNamara-O’Hara Service Contract Act (SCA) are all federal labor laws. They each set up prevailing wages and a variety of other requirements that all government contractors must follow. There are some key...
Prevailing wage mistakes aren’t the only type of violation that can get you in hot water. There are many labor laws that can leave a company under investigation and owing money for recovered wages and penalties. And once an investigation starts, it may uncover...
New York governor Kathy Hochul recently signed a law which makes construction contractors in New York liable for the wages owed to employees of the subcontractors working under them. In Senate bill S2766C, prime contractors will be responsible for wage and benefit...
Prevailing wage laws are complicated and often difficult to interpret. Making matters worse, laws change regularly with new laws and regulations coming out yearly. So even if you routinely deal with prevailing wage compliance, you have to work to stay ahead of them....
The Employee Retention Credit (ERC) was created under the CARES Act to help companies keep workers on their payroll throughout the pandemic. At the time the law was passed, there was some grey area regarding how parts of the law should be applied. Later in 2021...
