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Consider Collectively Bargained Workers' Compensation

Construction Business Owner

Collectively bargained workers' compensation gives building trade unions and union contractors the ability to create their own workers' comp system, tailored to their specific needs. You may have also heard of collectively bargained workers' compensation referred to as "carve outs" in the traditional workers' compensation system.

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Phase l Environmental Site Assessment Standard Being Revised

Green Building Law Update

Some believe this tying the consideration to “current” standards, as opposed to the regulator determination at the time the tank was closed, creates a Faustian bargain for the environmental professional, and will greatly limit the supremely valuable designation of HRECS. of this report.

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Can Parties Knowingly Exploit Unlicensed Contractors?

Construction Dive

To be blunt, they are not legally entitled to payment for their work, no matter how outstanding that work may have been. Can they accept the benefit of the bargain, construction work performed at considerable cost, and then refuse to pay on the grounds the contractor lacked a license?

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Tips for Enacting Workplace Mask, Vaccine Requirements

Pro Builder

But recent court decisions have provided legal support, Blue added, including one ruling upholding a Texas hospital's mandate. Workers who are part of a union may be subject to an employment agreement or collective bargaining agreement that impacts the situation, Conrad Kennedy said. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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Updated Phase l Environmental Site Assessment is Published But.

Green Building Law Update

Some believe this tying of the consideration to “current” standards, as opposed to the regulator determination at the time the tank was closed, creates a Faustian bargain for the environmental professional, and will greatly limit the supremely valuable designation of HRECS. yes, this blog will continue).

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Not So Severable After All: Third Circuit Lets Courts Determine Arbitration Agreement Existence When Underlying Contract’s Validity Is Challenged

Constructlaw

The short-form agreement incorporated by reference two statewide collective bargaining agreements that required MZM to make contributions to the New Jersey Building Laborers’ Statewide Benefits Funds (the Funds). After the project began, a labor union representative approached and asked MZM’s president to execute a “short-form agreement.”

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New Executive Order Requires Paid Sick Leave for Federal Contractors

Best Practices Construction Law

Leave also extends to the same for an employee’s spouse, child, parent, blood-related family member, or someone “whose close association with the employee is the equivalent of a family relationship.” That’s the legal speak! But what’s the practical effect on federal contractors?