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Vol. 55, Nos. 2710-2743 pp. 1-1158 March 5, 2009 - Nov. 5, 2009 A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
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– Legislative and regulatory roundup, 823
– Stormwater discharges, EPA proposing to extend expiration date for general permit, 1088 – Workers' compensation, Wash. resident may not pursue claim in Wash. for injuries on Idaho site where benefits already paid (Wash. Ct. App.), 966
– Antitrust, NLRA preempts contractor claim for secondary boycott but complete preemption converts state complaint into federal one (7th Cir.), 205
– Chicago, DOJ charges environmental compliance inspector with accepting cash bribes for helping landlord avoid asbestos abatement enforcement (N.D. Ill.), 1146 – E-Verify, state law barring employers from enrollment conflicts with Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act preempted (C.D. Ill.), 123 – Legislative and regulatory roundup, 31; 157; 194; 227; 267; 823; 861; 904 – Prevailing wages and worker classification, laws keeping state Labor Dep't and employers busy, staff added, 450 – Roads, bridges, and mass transit projects, bill providing $3B bond authorization, creates Jump Start Capital Plan, signed, 192 – Worker classification
– – Enforcement, first wave of cases under new law maturing, final announcements to be made soon, 940
– – Fraudulently classifying workers as independent contractors, accords reached with contractors, will pay penalties and be barred from public projects, 854
– Criminal violations
– Guest workers
See GUEST WORKERS
– New Employee Verification Act – SAVE Act – Undocumented workers
See VISAS
– Appointments and personnel changes, nominee Morton pledges to focus worksite enforcement actions primarily on unscrupulous employers, confirmation hearing, 286
– Criminal prosecution, DHS issues new enforcement guidelines changing focus more on businesses hiring undocumented workers, 329 – Employment eligibility verification
– Owner controlled insurance, contractor that provides workers' compensation coverage for subcontractors immune from negligence claim for job injury (Tex.), 187
– Workers' compensation, premises owner who was also general contractor protected from liability (Tex.), 186
– Duty of care, Ind. Transp. Dep't liable to independent contractor electrocuted while working on Marshall Cty. project (Ind. Ct. App.), 538
– IRS, must look to entire course of conduct between worker and firm to determine whether worker is employee, 825 – Legislative and regulatory roundup, 31; 63; 194; 227 – Misclassification – RICO, masonry contractor has no claim against competitor who won bid by using undocumented workers to lower payroll costs (N.D. Ill.), 759 – State and local initiatives
See specific states
– Tribal contracts, ARRA has exemption for certain construction projects, DOL opinion letter, 493
– Constr. Ass'n, LIUNA pact ratified, 445
– E-Verify, bill punishing firms for employing undocumented workers and requiring state agencies and contractors to use approved, 127 – Legislative and regulatory roundup, 31; 63; 157; 267 – Marshall Cty., performing road projects violated state law requiring projects of more than $100K to be bid out (Ind. Cir. Ct.), 610 – Safety Rev. Bd., ALJ ruling that contractor violated state OSH Act in faulty removal of light pole upheld, elements of general duty clause shown (Ind. App. Ct.), 676 – Toll Rd. Contractors, IUOE Local 150 strike ends after pact attained, 7 – Transp. Dep't, state owed duty of care to independent contractor electrocuted while working on Marshall Cty. project (Ind. Ct. App.), 538 – Worker classification, bill requiring sharing data among state agencies while keeping confidential signed, 482
– Apprentices, DOL awards funds to help update programs, 783
– Big Dig
See MASSACHUSETTS
– DOT, grant program will put emphasis on project's long-term benefits and job creation potential, 408 – Economic growth and job creation, sound national manufacturing policy, including projects, workforce development, and fair trade essential, conference, 1143 – Federal Surface Transportation Policy and Planning Act – Funding, President says administration will work to find more creative new approaches, would create jobs and improve deterioration, 1139 – Highway construction – Legislative and regulatory roundup, 63; 194 – National Infrastructure Bank Act – Physical, GAO sending inspectors to states to look into how appropriated money is being used, official tells House panel, 52; projected funded with stimulus money on track, competition due to high unemployment helps, President says, 212 – Planning and spending priorities, U.S. needs to rethink and improve funding and planning of projects, report, 248 – STAA
See specific states
– Supply chain, first step in action plan to keep U.S. competitive in international trade, Rendell (D-Pa) urges rethinking funding, needs to be part of surface transportation reauthorization, 407 – Transportation, more than 1.1M jobs could be created on 2 projects, EP analysis, 210 – U.K., government needs to create national infrastructure investment bank to facilitate funding for projects, engineering official says, 1035 – Wash., Alaskan Way Viaduct, Seattle city council approves memo of understanding with state Transp. Dep't to replace with deep bored tunnel and other improvements, 1097 – Water Infrastructure Financing Act
– Jurisdictional disputes, LIUNA local may not enforce finding that assigning door work to Carpenters violated pact, grievance does not resolve (E.D.N.Y.), 506
– Lack of integrity, request to bar Wilmington, Del. from demolishing unsafe buildings denied, unable to determine if contractor responsible bidder where criminal charges pending (Del. Ch.), 610 – Nev., Clark Cty., county and paving firm barred from proceeding with highway widening project where lower bid rejected for improprieties in other state (D. Nev.), 789 – Norris-Laguardia Act, home builder may not bar LIUNA e-mail and voice mail messages after firing workers for organizing and efforts to organize subcontractors (E.D. Mich.), 997 – Retaliation, unilaterally changing conditions, and bad faith bargaining, no abuse of discretion in enjoining concrete firm (NLRB), 214 – ULPs, OP&CMIA Local 200 may not suing drywall contractor to force assigning plastering work to members until NLRB ruling on ULPs (9th Cir.), 119 – Univ. of Wash., Alpha Delta Pi Bldg. Ass'n, restraining order barring UBC from picketing sorority for using nonunion contractor overly broad (W.D. Wash.), 1027
– Asbestos cancers
See ASBESTOS
See ASTHMA
– – Asbestos-related
See ASBESTOS
See FATALITIES
– Ergonomics
See ERGONOMICS
See FALL PROTECTION
– Hexavalent chromium
See LEAD
See ERGONOMICS
– Protection America's Workers Act – Silicosis
See ASBESTOS
See specific states
– Workers' compensation
See WORKERS' COMPENSATION; specific states
See NEW YORK
– Asbestos
See ASBESTOS
– LandCoast Insulation, OSHA citation contractor for willful trenching violations that caused injuries and death, penalties proposed, 180 – Schmid Insulation Contractors, accord with class of mostly Latino workers for failure to pay for hours worked approved, undocumented workers will share in damages (C.D. Cal.), 80
– Guardian Life Ins., withdrawing health insurance policy from N.Y. small group market violated ERISA by establishing eligibility based on health status or claims experience (S.D.N.Y.), 720
– Mass. Mutual Life Ins., investors charging insurers with fiduciary breach by investing funds with Madoff (D. Mass.), 279 – MGIC Investment, Wis. county retirement system made lead plaintiff in class suit for failure to disclose subprime loans (E.D. Wis.), 221
See also generally TAXATION
– Audit Technique Guide, 12 part instruction for construction industry to help prepare for tax audits published, 597 – 403(b) plans
See 403(b) PLANS
See PAYROLL TAXES
– Status freeze, public comment sought on revocation of status freeze elections, 665 – Super completed contract method of accounting, IRS posts updated directive on home construction on web site, expands scope of exemptions, amends rules for taxpayer changes, 960 – Worker classification, must look to entire course of conduct between worker and firm to determine whether worker is independent contractor or employee, 825 – Worker, Retiree, and Employer Recovery Act, guidance for multiemployer plans on pension funding relief issued, 139; IRS extends deadline for plan sponsors to decided whether to freeze plan funding status, 326; Rev. Proc 2009-43 lets multiemployer plan sponsors to revoke funding status elections made before financial market collapse, 922; IRS and Treasury release final rules on measuring assets and liabilities to comply with single employer requirement, benefit restrictions on underfunded plans, 1048
– Am. Recovery and Reinvestment Act
– Asbestos, developer ordered to pay civil penalty for failure to abide by rules in renovating building (Iowa Dist. Ct.), 421
– Infrastructure projects, law to create thousands of jobs through bonding signed, 421 – Legislative and regulatory roundup, 31; 267; 861 – Worker classification, state workforce development agency to start investigating misclassification as independent contractors, 648
– Dist. Council of Cal., firm barring filling vehicles en route to job sites or cashing checks at gas station frequented by union member was ULP (D.C. Cir.), 411
– Local 1, Assoc. Steel Erectors of Chicago pact ratified, 896 – Local 3, nonunion firm lawfully fired at-will worker who planned to work for union (NLRB ALJ), 477 – Local 7, steel erection firms get damages for ULPs in coercing employers to avoid nonunion subcontractors (D. Mass.), 889 – Local 23 Pension and Benefit Funds, steel erector that did work assigned to another firm that was pact signatory liable for benefit fund contributions (E.D. Mich.), 1153 – Local 27, steelmaker must make benefit fund contributions for every hour workers are paid, not just hours worked (D. Utah), 441 – Local 103, Tri-State Iron Workers Employers Ass'n pact ratified, 383 – Local 229, San Diego hotel developer ends project, cites interference by UNITE HERE and coalition of construction unions, 973 – Local 385, NW Ind. Contractors' Ass'n pact ratified, 683 – Multiemployer plans class action against investment firms for role in Madoff-related investments
See FIDUCIARY DUTY
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