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Prevailing Wage Essentials

Construction Business Owner

Understanding prevailing wage is crucial because it ensures fair compensation for workers, maintains a level playing field among contractors and promotes the quality and safety standards essential for the construction industry's integrity and sustainability. Deltek ComputerEase serves over 6,000 contractors.

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Top 10 Ways to Manage Workers' Compensation Exposure

Construction Business Owner

Workers’ compensation insurance pays for occupational injury and illness; that’s why you buy the insurance. What many contractors fail to grasp, however, is that some significant indirect costs are not covered by insurance. Oftentimes, it is an employer’s single most expensive line of coverage.

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How to Prepare for Unexpected Risk Exposure

Construction Business Owner

Either by choice or required by contract or statute, commercial general liability (CGL), workers’ compensation, business auto and inland marine insurance (mobile equipment) are among the most common types of insurance purchased by contractors.

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Construction Claim- Types, Causes, and Preventive Measures

The Constructor

A construction claim is the assertion of a right that requires either more time or/and payment by either party of the contract (often the contractor) for compensation of the losses brought on by the other party’s failure to uphold their portion of the responsibilities as defined in the contract.

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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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Creating a JOC Coefficient?

Job Order Contracting

Contractors must evaluate multiple factors in addition to the associated use of their own capabilities and resources. General / Prime Contractor Overhead. General / Prime Contractor Profit and risk. Workmen’s compensations insurance. Creating a JOC coefficient is an important part of any Job Order Contract.

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What to Know About the Pennsylvania Construction Workplace Misclassification Act

Construction Business Owner

The Pennsylvania Construction Workplace Misclassification Act (CWMA) prohibits employers from improperly classifying their workers as independent contractors, not employees, to avoid their obligation to provide workers’ compensation benefits. In Dep’t of Labor & Indus.,Uninsured Uninsured Emp’rs Guar.