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Top 10 Tuesday – Tips from Around the Web – 6/7/2011
Top 10 Tuesday includes our favorite QuickBooks and business productivity tips for around the web. Continue reading
House Effort to Restrict Labor Wage Law Fails
The House early Saturday turned back an effort to suspend a Depression-era law, the Davis Bacon Act, that requires federal contractors to pay locally prevailing wage rates. Continue reading
Payroll Tip – Davis Bacon Wages & Holiday Pay
Payroll which involves the payment of Davis Bacon or prevailing wage can be quite complex, especially for non-union or open shop contractor. Continue reading
Construction Workers on “stimulus” projects will receive prevailing wages
Hundreds of thousands of construction workers hired to work on economic-stimulus projects will receive prevailing wages under new federal guidelines. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will prepare the guidelines, which will expand the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act and establish a floor for wages paid for the more than 678,000 construction jobs created by 2010. Continue reading
3 Key Steps for Shifting to Public Works Projects
The current economic situation has dealt a serious blow to both homebuilders and commercial contractors. Like all downturns to the economy, this too shall pass; but, experts predict that it will take quite awhile for everything to stabilize.
However, all is not lost.....
Public Works construction could thrive. If you listen to the news and read construction trade newsletters you hear that part of President-Elect Obama’s economic stimulus plan includes investing in our country’s infrastructure; which means public works construction projects. Continue reading
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