Developers of renewable energy projects generally haven’t concerned themselves with the Davis-Bacon Act, the Great Depression-era federal law that mandates the paying of prevailing wages to laborers on public works projects;...more
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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
8/31/2023
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UPDATE: On February 14, 2023, OFCC announced it was extending the February 17, 2023 deadline to file objections to the disclosure of Type 2 EEO-1 data. The new deadline to submit objections is March 3, 2023.
On or about...more
On or about February 7, 2023, OFCCP updated its announcement regarding the OFCCP list of 13,520 federal contractors (List of Non-Objectors or List) that have not objected to the release of their Type 2 EEO-1 data for the...more
As predicted, another Obama Administration “oldie but goodie” has made a return in the Biden Administration. On November 18, 2021, President Biden issued a new Executive Order entitled “Executive Order on Nondisplacement of...more
For years, I have been blogging and speaking about the very real and very serious civil and potential criminal consequences of a failure to comply with the Davis Bacon Act. Every once in a while, a case comes along that...more
On April 27, 2021, President Biden issued a new Executive Order that raises the federal contractor minimum wage to $15 per hour, from the current $10.95 per hour, starting January 30, 2022...more
It’s coming. From all outward signs, it appears that the Biden Administration may be planning to use the “American Jobs Plan” – otherwise known as the proposed infrastructure plan – to expand the Davis Bacon Act (“DBA”) and...more