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Company wins $23 million verdict in trade secrets case

  • Bryan Cave LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 31 2008

The jury apparently wanted to send the message to companies that act with faithless servants “you need to play fair.”

Thinking of accepting advertising from a federal agency? Understand OFCCP affirmative action requirements first

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 18 2007

Broadcasters should be aware of the possibility of accepting government advertising and inadvertently becoming a federal contractor or subcontractor

New Georgia law imposes broad employee-verification requirements on public employers and their contractors

  • Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 1 2007

Since 1986, federal law has required employers in the United States to verify the identity of new employees and their eligibility to work in this country by examining certain identity and work-authorization documents and completing an I-9 Form relating to that examination

The OFCCP issues new regulations on affirmative action for veterans

  • Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 20 2007

The Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) requires covered federal contractors and subcontractors to take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment certain categories of veterans

Who can challenge failure to pay prevailing wage?

  • Bricker & Eckler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 4 2007

Most Ohio contractors are, or should be, aware of prevailing wage requirements on public construction projects (with the exception of school construction, where prevailing wage is not required

Don’t forget about new EEO-1 reporting requirements

  • Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 8 2007

Private sector employers with 100 or more employees (as well as employers with a federal government contract that have 50 or more employees) are required to file an EEO-1 report annually by September 30

Litigation over German group pension service contracts

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • Germany
  • -
  • October 19 2007

The European Commission is pursuing an infringement action against Germany with regard to the practice of local and municipal authorities awarding contracts for group pension services without going out to tender under the public procurement rules

Developments in the Prevailing Wage Law

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 10 2008

The Ohio Prevailing Wage Law, enacted in the 1930s and modeled after the federal Davis-Bacon Act, essentially requires contractors to pay union scale wages and benefits on almost all construction and remodeling work in connection with a "public improvement" i.e., a project "by and for" a public authority supported in whole or in part with public dollars

Department of Labor completes updates to veterans’ affirmative action rules

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 29 2008

On April 7 and May 19, 2008, the Department of Labor finalized rules implementing statutory changes to federal government contractors’ affirmative action obligations regarding employment for protected classes of veterans

Airport redevelopment and construction safety under provincial authority

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • December 17 2007

A recent decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, has broad implications for federally regulated employers and their contractors, across Canada