NLRB Issues Final Joint Employer Rule. On February 26, the NLRB published its final rule governing joint employer status under the National Labor Relations Act. ...more
3/3/2020
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Electronic H-2B Notifications Coming Soon. The Departments of Labor and Homeland Security issued a final rule modernizing the recruitment requirements under the H-2B program. Specifically, the Departments have eliminated the...more
11/18/2019
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Right of First Refusal EO Revoked. Last week, President Trump issued an Executive Order revoking Executive Order 13495 issued by President Obama in January 2009. EO 13495 required that successor Federal service contractors...more
11/11/2019
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Seyfarth Synopsis: Employees on certain government contracts must be paid in accordance with the requirements of a 2014 Executive Order on Minimum Wage. Effective January 1, 2019, the minimum wage for covered workers is...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: With the federal government shut down as of last Saturday, private employers – federal contractors especially – are considering their options....more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The United States Department of Labor’s Final Rule on paid sick leave requirements for many federal contractors, which was published on September 30, 2016, will apply to covered contracts beginning on...more
Seyfarth Shaw submitted comments on behalf of the Firm and its clients responding to the U.S. Department of Labor’s proposed regulations seeking to require certain parties that contract with the Federal Government to provide...more
Following up on Executive Order 13706 from September 2015 (the “Order”), earlier today the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) took a major step toward extending paid sick leave benefits to employees of federal...more
As we blogged last year, the President’s Executive Order establishing a minimum wage for certain federal contractor employees requires that the minimum wage be adjusted on an annual basis. In the September 16, 2015 Federal...more
This year continues to be an active one for employers who are federal contractors or subcontractors. Most recently, yesterday President Obama continued the trend of using Executive Orders where legislative solutions have...more
9/10/2015
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On Thursday, the Department of Labor and the Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) Council will issue proposed guidance and proposed regulations, respectively, regarding the implementation of the President’s Fair Pay and Safe...more