Unlike the Copeland Anti-Kickback Act, which covers most US Government construction projects, the Service Contract Act does not dictate the weekly payment of wages. So while Davis-Bacon Act covered construction workers' wages must be paid weekly, other federal laws like the SCA do not necessarily require such frequency of payment.
Read MoreThe Contractor Minimum Wage goes up by 2.4%. It is, of course, an automatic increase mandated by President Obama Executive Order. The Trump Administration is no fan of minimum wage increases. No similar inflation adjustment happens to the FLSA.
Read MoreWhile President Trump has revoked several of the Obama era procurement-related executive orders, the so-called “Nondisplacement” Executive Order (“EO”) first issued in 2009 has survived.
Read MoreSuccessor contractors must be prepared to pay EO sick leave benefits in addition to the other benefits set forth in the CBA, and those EO sick leave benefits likely are not a credit towards either SCA vacation or H&W benefits.
Read MoreThe answer depends on when the contract was originally awarded and what clauses have been incorporated therein originally or by subsequent contract modifications. Read your contract(s)!
Read MoreContracts resulting from federal government solicitations issued on or after Jan. 1, 2017, and contracts awarded outside the solicitation process on or after Jan. 1, 2017 (collectively, “new contracts”) may be subject to the federal sick leave Executive Order (“EO”) 13706.
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