Do You Want to Pay your Subcontractor’s Employee’s Wages?

The simple answer is “Of course not!”.  But are you taking any precautions to make sure that it doesn’t happen to you?

How can this happen?

We’ve all heard the stories of a subcontractor that failed to pay its laborers prevailing wages on a Davis Bacon project.  Typically, the Department of Labor catches this failure to properly pay employees in an audit of the project. If the subcontractor doesn’t have the financial resources to pay its […]

By | February 19th, 2020 ||

The Concrete (Legal) Jungle

Serge Somrov purchased apartment 7A at the Bay Parkway Terrace  Condominium. After moving in Somrov replaced the floor of the terrace with Board approval.

Ten years later, Somrov was told that a leak on his terrace was causing water damage to the apartment below. Pursuant to the By-Laws Somrov was required to remove the tiles he installed as well as the cement underneath. And Bay Parkway was obligated to install waterproofing  after which Somrov could re-install […]

By | February 15th, 2020 ||

OFCCP Updates the Construction Contractor Technical Assistance Guide

The OFCCP recently updated the Construction Contractor Technical Assistance Guide (TAG) to help federal construction contractors better comply with their Affirmative Action obligations and reporting obligations. Below we review some of the key information provided in the TAG.

Executive Order 11246

Under Executive Order 11246, contractors must “take affirmative action” through postings, notices and taglines in job postings.  Contractors also have significant record retention obligations and the TAG explains what records to keep, for whom records are required to […]

By | February 12th, 2020 ||