What Percentage of Prevailing Wage Should Be Contributed to Health & Welfare Benefits?

February 28th, 2009

The question: Generally what percentage of prevailing wage monies should be put towards health and welfare benefits? This is a tough question as this varies by contractor, field, and even region of the country.

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State delays fire sprinklers in new homes constructed after Jan. 1, 2011

February 27th, 2009

Rules to mandate automatic fire sprinklers in new homes constructed after Jan. 1, 2011, will be delayed, the state Department of Labor and Industry says.

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What Percentage of Prevailing Wage Should Be Contributed to Health & Welfare Benefits?

February 26th, 2009

The question: Generally what percentage of prevailing wage monies should be put towards health and welfare benefits? This is a tough question as this varies by contractor, field, and even region of the country.

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Solis Confirmed as Labor Secretary

February 25th, 2009

Apparently the desire of having a Secretary of Labor walk down the aisle before Obama’s speech tonight was the trick.

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Labor Law Journal - LEDBETTER V. GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO.: SUPREME COURT PLACES ROADBLOCK IN FRONT OF TITLE VII PAY DISCRIMINATION PLAINTIFFS

February 24th, 2009

During her nineteen-year tenure at a Goodyear Tire & Rubber plant, Lilly Ledbetter did not suspect that she was being paid at a lesser rate than her male counterparts and that this might be due to sex discrimination. For most of that time she was an area manager, a position largely held by men, and initially her salary was in line with that of male managers.

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What Percentage of Prevailing Wage Should Be Contributed to Health & Welfare Benefits?

February 23rd, 2009

The question: Generally what percentage of prevailing wage monies should be put towards health and welfare benefits? This is a tough question as this varies by contractor, field, and even region of the country.

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Federal Securities Law for Employee Benefits Lawyers

February 22nd, 2009

ABA JOINT COMMITTEE ON EMPLOYEE BENEFITS * DATE: February 24, 2009 SPONSORS: The Sections of Business Law, Health Law, Labor and Employment Law, Real Property, Trust and Estate Law, Taxation, and Tort Trial and …

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Labor Law Journal - EXCLUSIVE REPRESENTATION AND THE WAGNER ACT: THE STRUCTURE OF FEDERAL COLLECTIVE BARGAINING LAW

February 21st, 2009

As much recent scholarship points out, the American labor movement has suffered a severe decline in membership and influence over the past three decades. Union density in 2006 stood at 12 percent of the non-agricultural workforce, with only 7.4 percent in private sector employment.1 Various reasons are put forward to explain labor’s desuetude, and a number of proposals have been suggested as a means to reinvigorate unionism.

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What Percentage of Prevailing Wage Should Be Contributed to Health & Welfare Benefits?

February 20th, 2009

The question: Generally what percentage of prevailing wage monies should be put towards health and welfare benefits? This is a tough question as this varies by contractor, field, and even region of the country.

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President Obama signed the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act” into law Tuesday.

February 19th, 2009

Delaware’s two United States Senators and the Governor were joined by Labor, Business and Community leaders at the Department of Labor to discuss the president’s economic recovery plan Wednesday morning.

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