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Federal Contractors Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR)

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SBA Proposes Major Updates to Revenue-Based Size Standards

On August 22, 2025, the U.S. Small Business Administration (“SBA”) published a notice of proposed rulemaking under which the SBA proposes to increase revenue-based size standards for 263 industries (the “Proposed Rule”). ...more

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Government Contractors Should be Aware: SBA intends to increase and revise monetary-based size standards

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On August 22, 2025, the Small Business Administration (SBA) issued a proposed rule to increase its monetary based small business size standards for 263 industries (259 receipts-based and four assets-based). The SBA also...more

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The Administration Takes Aim At Drug Prices Again – This Time Through A Controversial Framework for Exercising March-In Rights

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The Biden Administration recently announced a plan to leverage an old tool in a new way to try to reduce drug costs: exercising “march-in rights” under the Bayh-Dole Act for drugs that were supported by government funding. ...more

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EO 14055 Proposed Rules Require Successor Contractors To Once Again Offer First Right Of Refusal To Predecessor Workers

On July 15, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) published a 160-page Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to implement Executive Order (EO) 14055, “Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers Under Service Contracts,” seeking...more

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Emerging Construction Legal Trends and Issues on Employment Front: Proposed Davis-Bacon Act Reform

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For employers in the construction industry, the Department of Labor’s (DOL) proposed revisions to Davis-Bacon Act (DBA) regulations on prevailing wages on public projects can mean significant adjustments to their practices....more

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OFCCP Signals Return to More Aggressive and Less Transparent Audits

In the last three weeks alone, OFCCP has issued two significant Directives and a notice of proposed rulemaking, signaling its intent to be far more aggressive and less transparent in compliance evaluations than under the...more

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DOL’s Proposed Revisions of Davis Bacon Act Rules Will Have Significant Impact on Federal Construction Contractors

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Federal wage and hour officials recently issued proposed rules that will make it easier for unions to have their hourly rates of pay established as the prevailing wage rates and will increase the Department of Labor’s...more

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Significant Changes to Davis-Bacon and Related Acts Regulations Proposed

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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has issued its long-awaited Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) seeking to revise Davis-Bacon Act (DBA) regulations....more

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OFCCP seeks to undo Trump-era predetermination regs

So much for transparency! Today, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would largely rescind enforcement procedures codified in 2020 during the Trump...more

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OFCCP Releases Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Rescind Pre-Enforcement Notice and Conciliation Procedures

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As anticipated, OFCCP has released its proposal to revise the Agency’s Rule on Nondiscrimination Obligations of Federal Contractors and Subcontractors: Procedures to Resolve Potential Employment Discrimination. The final...more

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U.S. Department of Labor Announces Overhaul of Prevailing Wage Rules

On March 11, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to update the rules governing how workers are paid on federally funded construction projects. The proposed changes represent the...more

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USDA Seeks to ‘Blacklist’ Government Contractors for Labor and Employment Law Violations

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on February 17, 2022, seeking to update its contract acquisition requirements. Within the proposed rulemaking, the USDA included two...more

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Federal Contractor Minimum Wage Increase

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The minimum wage for federal contractors may increase to $15.00 on January 30, 2022, up from the current minimum wage of $10.95. President Biden issued Executive Order 14026, which seeks to increase the minimum hourly...more

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Changes To March-In Rights Under Bayh-Dole And More?

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Since its enactment in 1980, the Bayh-Dole Act has been credited with promoting the development of over 10,000 startup companies and at least 200 pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines, while contributing more than $500 billion...more

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OFCCP Issues Final Rule On Religious Exemption

Religious entities given clarity in federal procurement. The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs issued its Final Rule on “Implementing Legal Requirements Regarding the Equal Opportunity Clause’s Religious...more

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Weekly Update Newsletter - March 2019 #5

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GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING - The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense released a class deviation, effective immediately, that implements section 1006 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019. The...more

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DoD Issues a Limitations on Subcontracting Class Deviation; FAR Revisions Proposed

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More than five years after Congress directed the Executive Branch to change the way small business contract performance requirements are calculated, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Federal Acquisition Regulation...more

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DOL Looks to Update/Modernize Sex Discrimination Guidelines for Federal Contractors and Subcontractors

Yesterday, the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published a notice of proposed rulemaking that would rescind the Labor Department’s sex discrimination guidelines for federal...more

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