Sentences with phrase «paying federal contractors»
Thankfully, it voted to stop the government from paying federal contractors who discriminate based on gender or sexual identity.
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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.
Federal government employees and contractors will have to make do with a little less cash, as Washington freezes pay and payments.
On Monday, Department of Labor officials claimed Google, who is a federal contractor, systematically pays female workers less than their male colleagues.
For instance, the federal government's Community Development Block Grants, which are dispensed by local communities for economic growth, require that contractors hired by the borrower pay the prevailing wage rate for that location.
While contractors with specialized skills may be able to negotiate with a company individually in order to obtain good pay and benefits, lower - skilled contractors have little power to negotiate on their own and are not covered under the federal labor laws that allow employees to come together in unions.
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.
Bush also temporarily suspended the Davis - Bacon Act, which requires federal contractors to pay workers the average wages in the area.
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.
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 Trump administration wants to make it easier for federal contractors to hide pay discrimination
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 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.
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.
The Democrats paid for pro-Malloy mass mailings with about $ 250,000 from the state party's federally regulated campaign account, which is allowed by federal law to accept heavy contributions from state contractors despite the state clean - election laws» ban on contractors» money going to candidates for state office.
The state Democratic Party last year used a contractor - fed federal account — intended to finance congressional campaigns — to pay for about $ 250,000 for mass mailings in support of Malloy's re-election.
The $ 2 million Ippolito did not pay taxes on came from Carlo Lizza & Sons of Old Bethpage, a paving contractor that has worked for the town, as well as a Lizza family trust, federal prosecutors have said.
It is ordered that on and after January 1, 2015, all Erie County offices, departments and administrative units, including but not limited to the Division of Purchase, fully implement a requirement in all bids, requests for proposals and other contract solicitations that the contractor submit an Erie County Equal Pay Certification which certifies the contractor's compliance with Federal Equal Pay Law and New York State Equal Pay Law (together, the «Equal Pay Laws»).
•» [W] e respectfully request that the [Federal Election] Commission does not allow the state party to cynically circumvent our state's carefully tailored pay - to - play state contractor provisions by glibly including a stray get - out - the - vote message in a communication that... promotes a Connecticut candidate, and then contending that the inclusion of a minute phone number and the polling hours transforms the communication into federal election activity outside the jurisdiction of the SEEC.Federal Election] Commission does not allow the state party to cynically circumvent our state's carefully tailored pay - to - play state contractor provisions by glibly including a stray get - out - the - vote message in a communication that... promotes a Connecticut candidate, and then contending that the inclusion of a minute phone number and the polling hours transforms the communication into federal election activity outside the jurisdiction of the SEEC.federal election activity outside the jurisdiction of the SEEC.»
Last week the state Democratic Party — which has collected more than $ 3 million in its «federal account,» much of it from contractors — requested clearance from the Federal Election Commission to use that account to pay for a proposed mass mailing that says, «On November 4th, vote for Dan Malloy.federal account,» much of it from contractors — requested clearance from the Federal Election Commission to use that account to pay for a proposed mass mailing that says, «On November 4th, vote for Dan Malloy.Federal Election Commission to use that account to pay for a proposed mass mailing that says, «On November 4th, vote for Dan Malloy.»
13th Executive Order Compels Contractors with Erie County to Certify Compliance with Federal, State Equal Pay Laws; Contractors Also Subject to Periodic Compliance Audits
ERIE COUNTY, NY — Today, Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz signed an Executive Order requiring contractors with Erie County to submit an Erie County Equal Pay Certification indicating their compliance with federal and state Equal Pay Laws prior to entering into a contract with Erie County and subjecting said contractors to future monitoring and audits of contractor records to confirm compliance with Equal Pay Laws.
«With this Executive Order I am putting all contractors who want to do business with Erie County on notice that they must be fully compliant with all federal and state laws regarding equal pay for women, they must prove that prior to entering into any contract with Erie County, and be subject to periodic audits by Erie County's Office of Equal Employment Opportunity,» said Poloncarz.
Now critics are saying that the Democrats» pro-Malloy mailings will undo the original promise of the public financing system — because the special - interest money will flow into the state campaign through the party's «federal account» even as taxpayers continue to pay for campaigns that were supposed to be kept «clean» of contractors» money.
Also, state regulators should crack down hard on the kind of shenanigans practiced by Democrats when they paid for a mailing touting Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's candidacy with money from their federal account — much of it supplied by state contractors, who are forbidden to contribute directly to state campaigns.
Specifically, POGO's study shows that the federal government approves service contract billing rates — deemed fair and reasonable — that pay contractors 1.83 times more than the government pays federal employees in total compensation, and more than 2 times the total compensation paid in the private sector for comparable services.
POGO's study analyzed the total compensation paid to federal and private sector employees, and annual billing rates for contractor employees across 35 occupational classifications covering over 550 service activities.
The Obama administration's vision for how federal loans would be serviced almost certainly meant the feds would have to increase how much they pay loan contractors to collect monthly payments from borrowers and counsel them on repayment options.
The technology is better than ever, more and more contractors specialize in installing green energy generators in homes and state and federal money will often help you pay for it.
Representing clients in multiple putative class action litigations including: claims under the Massachusetts independent contractor law; claims that employees were not paid for meal and rest breaks; and claimed violations of the state and federal tip credit statutes
Generally, federal law requires employees, who are not contractors, to receive overtime pay when they have worked more than 40 hours in any one work week.
Client Alert: «EEOC Seeks To Address Pay Disparity By Collecting Pay Data From Federal Contractors And Large Employers,» February 8, 2016
This is because employers do not pay Social Security, Medicare or federal unemployment insurance taxes on independent contractors.
As a result of trying to avoid treating at - home workers as employees, Rosen indicates that background screening firms can potentially face liability for federal and state payroll taxes that should have been paid for misclassified workers, substantial penalties to the IRS or state, fees and damages if litigation is involved, and responsibility for benefits and overtime pay the independant contractors would have received if classified as employees.
As a result of trying to avoid treating at - home workers as employees, Rosen indicates that background screening firms can potentially face liability for federal and state payroll taxes that should have been paid for misclassified workers, substantial penalties to the IRS or state, fees and damages if litigation is involved, and responsibility for benefits and overtime pay the independent contractors would have received if classified as employees.
Further, Michigan's real estate statute defines an «independent contractor relationship» as a relationship between a real estate broker and an associate broker or real estate salesperson where there is both a written agreement between the parties stating that the associate broker or real estate salesperson is not considered an employee for federal and state income tax purposes and not less than 75 % of the annual compensation paid by the broker to the associate broker or real estate salesperson is from commissions from the sale of real estate.