On July 16, 2021, the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division issued All Agency Memorandum No. 237, announcing that the prevailing health and welfare fringe benefit rate under the…
Category: GovCon
Top Contractor Compliance Headlines of 2021
Government contractors are already accustomed to the evolving nature of their industry. As administrations turn over, new legislation is introduced, and wage standards and industry practices evolve. Government contractors must…
SCA Compliance and Commingling of Assets: A Guide for Government Contractors
Maintaining compliance with the Service Contract Act (SCA) is not all that simple. The professional landscape is constantly shifting for government contractors. Not to mention that the process for enforcing…
How a Fringe Benefit Plan Drives Competitiveness
[A version of this article was originally published in the July 2021 issue of Construction Business Owner magazine.] The government contracting industry is in a league of its own when…
Service Contract Act: Compliance for Contractors
The McNamara-O’Hara Service Contract Act of 1965, as amended– sometimes referred to as the Service Contract Act or SCA for short — is one of the most important acts and…
Health and Welfare Benefits and the Executive Order
On April 27, 2021 the Biden-Harris administration issued an executive order raising the minimum wage for workers who are working on federal contracts to $15. The task of implementing and…