As the legal landscape around restrictive covenants continues to evolve, staying ahead of changes in non-compete and non-solicitation laws is critical for employers, their HR professionals, and in-house counsel. Don’t miss...more
In the wake of Executive Order 14173, federal contractors face heightened scrutiny of their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives. The EO requires contractors to certify that DEI programs comply with federal...more
6/26/2025
/ Anti-Discrimination Policies ,
Best Practices ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Executive Orders ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Internal Audit Functions ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Webinars
As the legal landscape around restrictive covenants continues to evolve, staying ahead of changes in non-compete and non-solicitation laws is critical for employers, their HR professionals, and in-house counsel. Don’t miss...more
6/17/2025
/ Continuing Legal Education ,
Contract Drafting ,
Employment Contract ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Multistate Employers ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Non-Solicitation Agreements ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Restrictive Covenants ,
Risk Mitigation ,
State Labor Laws ,
Webinars
President Trump’s executive order, Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity, revoked EO 11246: Equal Employment Opportunity and prohibits contractors from continuing any illegal discrimination or...more
For contractors and subcontractors providing certain services to the federal government, compliance with the Service Contract Act (or Service Contract Labor Standards) is required. Unique bidding and performance requirements...more
10/8/2024
/ Classification ,
Collective Bargaining ,
Competitive Bidding ,
Continuing Legal Education ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employee Benefits ,
Federal Contractors ,
Health and Welfare Plans ,
Minimum Wage ,
Offer Letters ,
Over-Time ,
Price Adjustments ,
Service Contract Act ,
Service Contract Labor Standards (SCLS) ,
Service Contracts ,
Sick Leave ,
Subcontractors ,
Training ,
Wage and Hour ,
Wage Determinations (WDs) ,
Webinars
In the second installment of our three-part webinar series, join PilieroMazza’s Matt Feinberg, Jessica duHoffmann, and Sarah Nash as they explore common FCA triggers often encountered by federal construction contractors and...more
A growing patchwork of state pay transparency laws is placing additional requirements on employers. At least five states and the District of Columbia have now enacted pay transparency laws requiring employers to disclose...more
2/2/2024
/ Disclosure Requirements ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Equal Pay ,
Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Job Applicants ,
Pay Transparency ,
Proposed Rules ,
Salaried Employees ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour ,
Webinars
On December 14, 2023, the Department of Labor published a Final Rule implementing Executive Order 14055, Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers Under Service Contracts, effective February 12, 2024. The rule establishes that...more
DOL’s significant overhaul to the Davis-Bacon Act and the Davis-Bacon Related Acts will increase prevailing wage and fringe benefit requirements—as well as enforcement—for contractors working on government construction...more
8/30/2023
/ Construction Contracts ,
Construction Industry ,
Construction Project ,
Construction Workers ,
Continuing Legal Education ,
Davis-Bacon Act ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Enforcement ,
Federal Contractors ,
Final Rules ,
Fringe Benefits ,
Prevailing Wages ,
Wage and Hour ,
Webinars
As we enter 2023, PilieroMazza attorneys are tracking several labor and employment challenges that will impact government contractors. In this webinar, PilieroMazza‘s Sarah Nash, Practice Group Chair of the Firm’s Labor &...more
2/1/2023
/ Best Practices ,
Classification ,
Employee Retention ,
Equal Pay ,
Federal Contractors ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Minimum Wage ,
Recruitment Policies ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour ,
Webinars
The Department of Justice settled and obtained judgments in excess of $2.2 billion for false claims against the government last year. And the False Claims Act (FCA) remains an effective enforcement tool about which federal...more
8/26/2021
/ Compliance ,
Construction Contracts ,
Construction Industry ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Contractors ,
General Contractors ,
Joint Venture ,
Mentor-Protege Program ,
Prevailing Wages ,
Prime Contractor ,
Subcontractors ,
Webinars
Companies often hire employees to develop new products, improve processes, create new technologies, and develop new markets. But how should employers address the ownership of intellectual property created by their employees...more
Join PilieroMazza’s Nichole Atallah and Sarah Nash, partners in the Firm’s Labor & Employment Group, for a 30-minute overview of recent legal developments and trends on vaccine and mask mandates and their implications for...more
8/9/2021
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employer Mandates ,
Employment Policies ,
Health and Safety ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Masks ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Vaccinations ,
Virus Testing ,
Webinars ,
Workplace Safety
With top companies permanently moving to a majority remote workforce, the COVID-19 shift to telework is here to stay. Employers need policies and procedures to manage the virtual workplace.
Join Sarah Nash and Anna Wright on...more
6/19/2020
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Security ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Health and Safety ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Labor Disputes ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Remote Working ,
Risk Management ,
Webinars
Now that states are beginning to reopen and we start going back into the workplace, there are important questions employers need answers to in order to protect themselves from liability. In this webinar, we will focus...more
If Service Contract Act (SCA) compliance wasn’t tricky enough already, federal and state programs providing for COVID-related leave and payments have raised unique SCA compliance concerns. In a time of uncertainty, the last...more
4/21/2020
/ CARES Act ,
Contractor Audits ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Furloughs ,
Service Contract Act ,
Sick Leave ,
Vacation Pay ,
Wage and Hour ,
Webinars