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We published a prior alert on several of President Obama’s Executive Orders affecting government contractors. This is an update to that alert regarding the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) final rule implementing EO 13665 – Non-Retaliation for Disclosure of Compensation Information.
For good reason, employers often adopt a policy of confidentiality when it comes to employee compensation. The obvious business reasons for such a policy include that it tends to reduce inter-employee conflicts and other business ...
Brad English and Hobie Frady presented a webinar on March 16 titled Preserve Your Right to Obtain an Equitable Adjustment: Practical Legal and Accounting Advice Before a Change Occurs. The session addressed the following issues related to changes:
- What is a change
- Types of changes
- Formal changes
- Constructive changes
- Authority, Notice, and Duty to Proceed
- Cardinal Changes
- Quantum
- Claims certification and appeals
Brad is a Shareholder and member of the Government Contracts & Bid Protests practice, as well as several practices in the Litigation section at Maynard Nexsen and Gale. He ...
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama recently held that the government cannot continue the suspension of a government contractor where the government does not initiate legal proceedings against the contractor within 18 months.
In Agility Defense and Government Services, Inc., et al. v U.S. Dept. of Defense, et al. DOD suspended Agility International and Agility Defense and Government Services for no reason other than that they were affiliated with Public Warehousing Company, a Kuwaiti corporation. The court noted that while the government has ...