On May 18, 2016, the Department of Labor announced a rule change that will allow over four million of employees to potentially qualify for increased pay for overtime hours. The new rule, called the Final Rule, will take
The Department of Defense (“DOD”) issued a final rule on Monday, July 21, 2014, amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (“DFARS”) to update the Rules of the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (“ASBCA”). The ASBCA is
Effective August 1, 2014, businesses will be required to obtain an Equal Pay Certificate before contracting with a department or agency of Minnesota, the Metropolitan Counsel, or most other metropolitan agencies. The law will apply to businesses that
Once a solicitation has been issued, exchanges between the Government and offerors are subject to strict requirements under the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). Among other restrictions, Government personnel involved in the acquisition are prohibited from favoring one offeror
Earlier this month, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council issued a long-awaited final rule amending the FAR to adopt government-wide standards for the collection and recording of Past Performance Information (PPI). See Documenting Contractor Performance, 78 Fed. Reg.
On May 21, 2013 the Department of Defense adopted a final amendment to the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) implementing § 821 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 (Pub. L. 11-84). Under §
On March 14, 2013, the FAR Council issued a notice soliciting public comments on a proposed rule that would impose new reporting requirements on most service contractors holding prime contracts with the federal government. While the rule was
For decades, Congress has refused to allocate the necessary funding to maintain the Great Lakes shipping ports. “Years of inadequate funding for dredging have left an estimated 17-plus million cubic yards of sediment clogging the Great Lakes Navigation
On June 18, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court enforced the rights of numerous Indian Tribes under their contracts with the government, finding that the government’s obligations under those contracts should be put on equal footing with any other
This week, the Supreme Court handed down its highly-anticipated decision in the decades-old “A-12” case. See General Dynamics Corp. v. United States, 2011 WL 1936073 (May 23, 2011). In a unanimous decision written by Justice Scalia, the Court
