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New Tax Court decision highlights need for construction contractors to consider expanded IRS voluntary worker classification settlement program

  • Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
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  • USA
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  • March 14 2013

For years, the question of whether construction workers should be treated as employees or independent contractors has been an important issue that

Ten things to do in the wake of this past weekend's severe winter weather

  • McCarter & English LLP
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  • USA
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  • February 15 2013

The recent severe winter weather left behind legal and financial problems even deeper than the snow. But it may also have presented you with

Updated OSHA regulatory agenda

  • Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren SC
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  • USA
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  • February 12 2013

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) of the U.S. Department of Labor continues to vigorously police the regulated community. Thus

California Contractors State License Board confirms asbestos certification does not authorize universal removalabatement

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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  • USA
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  • February 1 2013

Recently, the California Contractors State License Board (CLSB) issued an Industry Bulletin confirming that contractors may not perform abestos

Make a resolution for a safe 2013

  • Poyner Spruill LLP
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  • USA
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  • January 22 2013

It is the New Year and time for making and implementing your company's resolutions for 2013

It’s getting harder to say goodbye

  • Holland & Knight LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • January 18 2013

The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA or Act) allows employers, including those in the construction industry, to join together to bargain with a

Engler v. Gulf Interstate Eng’g, Inc.: employer liability for contractor employees working away from home

  • Snell & Wilmer
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  • USA
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  • December 20 2012

In today’s increasingly mobile construction industry, contractors are frequently involved in projects away from their home office

Court holds minority owner of construction business not employer under FLSA

  • Jackson Lewis LLP
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  • USA
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  • November 28 2012

FLSA litigation against medium-sized businesses continues, and a common tactic in such cases is to assert that one or more owners or managers of the business is the plaintiff's "employer" under the statute, and thus individually liable for the allegedly unpaid minimum wage andor overtime

OSHA's "willful violation" finding not dispositive of whether employer committed an intentional wrong

  • Sedgwick LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • October 31 2012

In the context of a plaintiff's action against his employer for serious workplace injuries, the New Jersey Supreme Court in Van Dunk v. Reckson

Minnesota enacts new requirements for independent contractors in the construction industry

  • Larkin Hoffman
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  • USA
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  • October 30 2012

Distinguishing between an employee and an independent contractor is not always an easy task