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Vol. 56, No. 2759 - 2807, pp. 1-1592 March 4, 2010 - Feb. 24, 2011 A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
DAMAGES
– ARRA, prevailing wages
– – Requirements for programs funded by act, GAO report, 137
– – WHD guidance to contracting officials, 329; further guidance, tax-favored bonds, 788 – Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act – Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act – Jurisdiction, whether church housing projects fall within Act or state prevailing wage law (C.D. Ill.), 252 – Labor rules negatively impacting construction industry, ABC request to Issa, 1366; GOP caucus reiterates need to repeal as part of spending cuts, 1474; Issa releases comments, 1509; specialty trade contractors oppose repeal, want tax relief, burdensome safety rules, 1541; eliminating mandates restricting competition, set wages, job creation, BNA Interview, 1584 – Money laundering, mail fraud, and obstructing grand jury, attorney at large despite guilty plea pending appeal (2d Cir.), 664 – Prevailing wages
– – Clean energy bill, BCTD trying to ensure standards included in final bill, 233
– – FY2011 appropriations, GOP will target having protections omitted from federally funded projects, 1431 – – State and local laws
See specific states
– Quality Builders, DOL debars for prevailing wage violations after WHD investigation, 1296 – Rates for federal highway construction, DOL to use Md. DOL survey, 59 – Sant-Tec Elec., N.Y. subcontractor debarred from federally funded projects for violating prevailing wage laws (DOL ALJ), 1229 – Small Business and Infrastructure Jobs Tax Act – Water Infrastructure Financing Act
– Ariz., bill making failure to carry immigration papers state offense ready for signature, 252; signed, 286; language bars solely considering race, color, or national origin in implementing signed, 321; employment provisions likely to be struck down, state argues parallels federal law (9th Cir., oral arg), 1090
– Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security and Prosperity Act (CIR ASAP)
See FATALITIES
– Claremont Park Assocs., N.Y. electrical subcontractor may not work on federally funded projects for violating prevailing wage laws (DOL ALJ), 1229
– Quality Builders, DOL debars for prevailing wage violations after WHD investigation, 1296 – Wage and hour violations, Mass. contractor accord includes restitution, 798 – Worker misclassification, N.H. contractor penalized for misclassifying workers on projects in 5 Mass. cities, 289
– ULP, hotel developer, UBC secondary boycott, dismissal stay for evidence of damages (W.D. Wash.), 117; developer may pursue secondary boycott claim (dec), 932
– FY2011 budget, Senate panel approves military funding and veterans affairs' spending, funds schools and housing worldwide, 645
– Green standards in construction and renovation among top goals, conference, 818 – Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, DOD and USACE failed to monitor subcontracting of rebuilding contracts, small business involvement, 786 – Shepherds Flat wind farm, agency withdrew objection despite FAA notice, turbines impact on radar equipment, 311 – Source selection guidance, better training in use of best-value tradeoff process, GAO report, 1092 – Veterans Employment Act
See PENSIONS
– Apprentice to journeyman ratio, structural metal workers, rule change, 771
– Commerce Clause, state DOL rule requiring out-of-state contractors to pay journeyman wage rates to non-Del. apprentices on public works projects (D. Del.), 251 – Legislative and regulatory roundup, 1498 – Prevailing wages, contractor's failure to notify state DOL before contesting violation no bar to suit (Del. Super. Ct.), 53 – Training, state legislative and regulatory roundup, 742 – Underpaying workers on library project to evade payroll taxes and benefit contributions, demolition firm officials convicted (D. Del.), 75
– Bovis Lend Lease, IW Local 40 claims PLA breach in assigning 9/11 project to LIUNA Local 70 (S.D.N.Y.), 1552
– C.J. L. Constr., contractor indicted for prevailing wages violations at N.Y.C. public housing project, debarment sought (DOL ALJ), 1296 – Cleveland Wrecking, crushing hazard review of fatal incident directed (OSHRC), 736 – Contaminated construction debris, owners of Buffalo, N.Y. asbestos abatement and demolition firms charged, illegal disposal, 340 – Demo Masters, contractors and owners violated FLSA, Davis-Bacon Act, and other violations, debarment sought (DOL ALJ), 1259; additional contractor cited, 1296 – DRI Demolition, contractor convicted for LIUNA kickbacks sentenced for tax evasion (D.R.I.), 1542 – Gladiators Contracting, contractors and owners violated FLSA, Davis-Bacon Act, and other violations, debarment sought (DOL ALJ), 1259; additional contractor cited, 1296 – LJC Dismantling, worker struck from behind while working on scaffold, citation and penalties (OSHRC, rev grant), 441 – Nuprecon, citation for fall protection violations, whether construction or demolition standards apply (OSHRC, rev grant), 24 – Testa, organized crime family members charged with using nonunion shell firms to evade IBT pact contributions (E.D.N.Y.), 44
See specific departments
– Total disability, participant has burden of proving HIV status qualified (9th Cir.), 1094
– Vesting, amending pension plan to cap occupational disability benefits, applicability to retirees already receiving benefits (6th Cir., vac and rem), 1400 – Workers' compensation
– Affirmative action
– Disparity, bias continues to affect hiring of minority- and female-owned construction firms, study, 1156 – Illinois
– – Chicago, fraud, abuse and mismanagement in program, women and minority participation lower than previously reported, IG report, 444
– – State support for projects to comply with rules, law obligating signed, 655 – Minnesota
– – DBE Business Enterprise and Workforce Collaborative, legislature asked to continue hiring goals, 1530
– – Race and sex bias, traffic signal firm charges constitutional violation, no evidence of prior bias (D. Minn.), 1560 – – Transp. Dept. gives contractors on federally funded projects extra time for documenting hiring, 1005 – Schiavone Constr., fraudulent reporting of set-aside compliance, contractor to pay $20M, accord, 1195 – Small and minority-owned businesses, DOT proposed program changes, oversight of government contracts, 337; final rule issued, will expand eligibility, streamline certification, increase oversight, 1479
– IUPAT Local 8A-28A, Chicago Transit Auth. members improperly denied votes in referendum on disaffiliation (E.D.N.Y.), 979
– LMRDA, retaliation for exercising free speech rights, jury award to IBT local official, mixed motive instructions (7th Cir.), 87
– Or., worker discipline for missing mandatory meetings where employers views on unions expressed, 1st Amend. and NLRA preemption (D. Or.), 343
– Cal., free electronic copy of project contract documents signed, 1000
– LMRDA – Pa., right to know law, redacting names and addresses of contractors' staffs before releasing, removal of protected personal information (Pa. Commw. Ct.), 444 – Post-retirement plans other than pensions, FASB project to improve multiemployer plan participation reporting, 103 – Privacy
See PRIVACY
See specific types of discrimination
– Metro Area Council of Governments, transportation and land use planning, report, 913
– PLAs, open shop contractors release study challenging use for city-funded projects over $200K, 157; City Council working group exploring more stringent first source hiring requirements, 655
– Affirmative action
– DBEs – Minn. Transp. Dep't, program includes contractor requirements, 830 – Mo. Transp. Dep't, Statewide Inclusion Advisory Council to promote diversity in hiring, procurement, and contracting, 1209
See SPOUSES
– Vehicle backing operations, road construction group supports regulating, flexible performance-based standard, 1397
– Alcohol possession, firing for unopened beer in company truck at job site, arbitrator reinstatement (D.N.J.), 1393
– Non-bargaining unit employees' participation in abuse program, bargaining order (Arb), 752
– Grayhawk, UBC secondary boycotts, trespass, and slander, NLRA preemption (W.D. Ky., recon), 1469
– JVS, keeping UBC dues withheld from workers, taking money meant for IUPAT benefit funds, owners charged (Pa. Dist. Ct.), 1561 – Lobo Drywall, guilty plea, hiring undocumented workers, underpaid, and evaded insurance, taxes, sentenced (D. Alaska), 926 – Master's Touch Drywall, failure to pay restitution, plea agreement for theft of sales taxes and workers' compensation fraud, sentenced, 1125 – MDP CA, failure to provide pay, denying breaks, and failure to pay workers' compensation insurance (Cal. Super. Ct.), 253 – Mulcahy, Latino workers, race and national origin bias, pay and working conditions, accord (D. Minn.), 439 – Raymond Interior Sys., UBC recognition
– – OP&CMIA recognition pact, ULP (NLRB), 69
– – ULPs, 3-member panel affirms earlier ruling (NLRB), 820 – Starkey Constr., UBC banners on public sidewalk outside secondary employer's business not coercive (NLRB), 1178 – Vector, Ontario, Canada, disputed work assignment awarded to UBC (O.L.R.B.), 835 – Westside Drywall, DOL suit for paying below minimum wage, kickback scheme with subcontractors (D. Or.), 406 – Wis., bill strengthening provisions for worker misclassification for painting and drywall finishing signed, 382 – Wyeth Constr, Cal. accord for minimum wage and overtime violations (Cal. Super. Ct.), 188
– Judicial bias, OSHRC hearing, storage violation, decision not supported by evidence (OSHRC, rev grant), 1449
– Punitive damages, award exceeding compensatory damages, failure to warn of health risks of asbestos exposure (Cal. Ct. App.), 1241 – Trespass, Ariz. water diversion system raised water levels of sand and gravel firm, no governmental taking (U.S., rev den), 151
– Affirmative contribution, contractor liability for steelworker fall, duty of care to subcontractor's workers (Cal., rev grant), 512
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