Sentences with phrase «of federal contractor»

In June 2014, he issued an executive order raising the minimum wage for employees of federal contractors to $ 10.10.

Not exact matches

The federal government has signed a $ 1.2 billion contract extension with a group of defence contractors for maintenance work on eight Anzac - class frigates for the next five years, with BAE Systems and CIMIC's UGL among the major beneficiaries.

By paying workers as independent contractors when they should be paid as employees, federal, state and local governments potentially miss out on tax revenue they would otherwise collect; this tax gap was the focus of a special report to Congress in 2011 and continues to be an area of focus today.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that whistleblower protections in a federal law passed in response to the Enron financial scandal apply broadly to employees of publicly traded companies and contractors hired by the companies.

The SBA has estimated that the sequester will result in $ 4 billion less revenue for small - business contractors as a result of reduced federal spending.

In 2016, Maryland - based Lockheed Martin received $ 43.4 billion in federal contracts, the most of any US defense contractor.

The decision has been ascribed to some combination of the persuasive powers of the president - elect, about $ 7 million in tax breaks from the state of Indiana, and implicit threats to the valuable business Carrier's parent company United Technologies, a major military contractor, conducts with the federal government.

Because Google is a federal contractor, it is required by law to submit employment data to the government as part of routine compliance procedures to prove it is not violating equal employment laws, the DoL says.

About 20 percent of employees working for private federal contractors earn poverty wages, according to the left - leaning Economic Policy Institute.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota - Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari participates in question - and - answer session moderated by the Associated General Contractors of Minnesota - 2100 GMT.

According to the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, of the top 50 federal contractors, 86 % prohibit sexual orientation - based discrimination, while 61 % have banned discriminatory practices based on gender identity.

The suspect in question, Reality Leigh Winner, a 25 - year - old federal contractor based in Atlanta with the defense firm Pluribus International, had been found due to a series of security flubs, according to the FBI.

If you're unsure about the proper designation, be sure to review the IRS website, as well as the Department of Labor websites at the federal and state levels, particularly their materials on distinguishing independent contractors from employees, and check your designations with your accountant and / or labor lawyer.

On Monday, Department of Labor officials claimed Google, who is a federal contractor, systematically pays female workers less than their male colleagues.

The New York Times covered the exciting news that the federal government has met its goal of awarding 5 percent of money spent on contractors to women - owned businesses.

In a blow to independent contractors for transportation companies seeking to be classified as employees of the firms they work with, a federal district judge in Massachusetts ruled the state's independent - contractor law failed to override a 1994 federal statute pre-empting state regulation of a motor carrier's rates, routes and services.

BOSTON — President Obama signed an executive order on Monday requiring federal contractors to provide up to seven days of paid sick leave a year, even as he accused Republican congressional leaders of endangering the economy and Republican presidential candidates of undercutting American workers.

The National Federation of Independent Business, while acknowledging that Mr. Obama has the authority to place conditions on federal contractors, said his latest action was another burdensome government mandate on private firms.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency also suffered its own contractor troubles in the recovery effort, and the agency waffled on whether or not it would withdraw from Puerto Rico at the end of January.

The letter raised the possibility that a federal contractor in San Francisco would have to make its policies conform to three separate sick leave rules — one for the city, one for the state of California and one for the federal government.

President Obama first signed an executive order requiring federal contractors to provide paid sick leave last September, and the Labor Department unveiled a draft of the rule in February, after which it solicited public comments.

In recent years, however, federal regulators have increasingly pressured businesses to move away from the use of independent contractors, who are not legally entitled to unionize under federal law.

Also, understand that federal and state definitions of Independent Contractor do not necessarily match, and they can be confusing.

More importantly, it gave CGI - until then generally locked out of bidding on U.S. federal contracts due to U.S. restrictions on foreign contractors - a valuable U.S. subsidiary it could use to court American agencies for business.

By hiring independent contractors, you won't need to withhold federal or state income taxes from their earnings, nor will you have to pay the employer's share of Social Security and Medicare taxes or provide unemployment benefits.

The move, first reported by Bloomberg Law, would scale back a 2013 Obama - era policy, known as Directive 307, which had expanded the DOL's ability to investigate and sanction federal contractors that showed a pattern of paying female workers and employees of color less than their white male colleagues.

The office randomly audits about 2 percent of the 200,000 contractors who do business with the federal government each year.

As of today, only large federal contractors provide such data to the government.

Catholic Charities — US Conference of Catholic Bishops, the largest of all the federal refugee resettlement contractors reported revenue $ 72,102,484 included $ 66,723,452, which is approximately 93 %, from federal funding.

The executive order amends a 1965 order prohibiting some forms of discrimination by federal contractors.

«In federal legislation there are some quaint characteristics like publicly advertising services in newspaper advertising which reflect outdated characteristics of contractors,» Mr Billson said.

A liberalisation of contractor laws could provide the federal government with a much - needed win in the Senate, with key independent senator and former building industry tycoon Bob Day a long - time advocate of independent contracting.

American Bakers Association (ABA) says the newly - proposed bill to synchronize the Fair Labor Act's definition of «employee» with that stated by federal law could benefit independent contractors in the baking industry.

Chairman of the committee, Johnson Agbonnayinman, (Ikpoba / Okha federal constituency), said the need to invite the contractors was important, but lamented that efforts to reach them had so far proven fruitless.

But when Walker learned last year of a federal investigation into potential corruption in Nassau County government, including circumstances surrounding the payment, he spoke to the contractor several times «in an attempt to convince the contractor to conceal the existence of the $ 5,000 payment from the grand jury,» according to authorities.

He therefore called on the Federal Government to fast track the release of funds to the contractor in charge of the project to ensure speedy completion in order to ease the hardship faced by the people plying the road.

But the course of the investigation changed when the Federal Police uncovered evidence of a corruption scheme inside Petrobras, involving contractors, politicians and company executives.

The minister of works, power and housing, Mr. Baba Tunde Fashola has given contractors up to May 2019 to complete the federal road project in Yakubu...

The Federal Government on Tuesday blamed the many incidences of road crashes on the Abuja - Lokoja highway to the alleged vacation of project site by the contractor...

April 1, 2004: In late March, the boys from AAR Contractor are spotted in federal court in Syracuse being convicted in one of the largest cases of environmental fraud in the nation's history.

Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, who engaged in a major funding limitation debate during the fiscal 2017 appropriations season when he proposed an amendment to bar discrimination against certain federal contractors, said he hadn't thought of using a funding limitation to bar payouts for claims stemming from sexual harassment by members of Congress.

In March, Commissioner of Planning and Development Frederick Ippolito was indicted on federal tax evasion charges, alleging that he failed to report $ 2 million of income from a town contractor and a member of the contractor's family.

The subpoena, which was followed by a state attorney general's raid on Howe's Albany office — located at the SUNY's Polytechnic Institute, which he once represented — and a federal raid on Percoco's Westchester home, was part of Bharara's ongoing probe of Cuomo's Buffalo Billion project, contractors for which hired Howe and at various times paid Percoco and Percoco's wife «consulting» fees.

Based on what the commission said in last month's decision, it could consider the Democrats» use of the federal account to be an impermissible «coordinated expenditure» with the state account, or an illegal contribution to the state account that's not allow to accept money fromo state contractors.

IYC, while hailing President Muhammadu Buhari over the commencement of academic activities at the Maritime University, urged the Federal Government to mobilise contractors working at the permanent site of the university to enable them to go back to site.

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

A new amendment from Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D - NY) which would that would ban federal contractors who discriminate against LGBT people attached to an energy and water spending bill passed the House late on Wednesday following days of fury from Dem... Read

The defense for former NSA contractor Reality Winner appealed a federal magistrate judge's decision, where 40 out of 41 subpoenas were rejected.

East Syracuse - based Pyramid Network Services, the general contractor for the Mesonet Initiative, a $ 23.6 million UAlbany project supported by Cuomo to enable better planning for extreme weather events, is one of the nearly two - dozen companies mentioned in the federal subpoena issued to the Cuomo administration in late April.

He further explained that the state government had terminated the N29 million contract for the provision of electricity in the second annex of the Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, (FETHA 2) for non speedy completion and failure of the contractor to honour the terms of the contract.