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What Contractors Need to Know About OSHA Heading Into 2023

Published Date: November 8, 2022

Stephen E. Irving, senior counsel in Peckar & Abramson's Houston office, has written "What Contractors Need to Know About OSHA Heading Into 2023," an article for Construction Executive. This article discusses the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) efforts to address the hazard of heat injury and illness on construction sites and what contractors should be aware of to best [...] Read More

You Are on Notice: Failure to Comply With Contractual Notice Provisions Can Be Fatal to Your Claim

Published Date: September 6, 2022

This article was written for the ConsensusDocs newsletter and first appeared here. Imagine your firm is the construction manager on a multi-million-dollar project. At the end of the project you are five million dollars out-of-pocket. You have a stack of claims for additional and extended work which led to the overrun, payment for which will easily cover the shortfall. However, [...] Read More

Government to Release EEO-1 Data of Federal Contractors Unless Objections are Filed by September 19, 2022

Published Date: September 2, 2022

The U.S. Department of Labor Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) intends to produce EEO-1 disclosures filed by federal contractors between 2016 and 2020 to comply with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by a watchdog group journalist. If contractors wish to prevent release of the demographic information contained in those filings, the deadline to object is [...] Read More

Effective July 1, 2022, Contractors Will be Liable for their Subcontractor’s Failure to Pay its Employees’ Wages and Benefits

Published Date: July 25, 2022

On June 10, 2022, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed two House Bills that amend the Illinois Wage Payment & Collections Act, 820 ILCS 115 et. seq. (“Wage Act”), to provide greater protection for individuals working in the construction trades against wage theft in a defined class of projects.  Pursuant to this new law, every general contractor, construction manager, or “primary [...] Read More

Getting the Deal Through – Construction 2023

Published Date: July 19, 2022

Peckar & Abramson founding partner Robert S. Peckar and partner Michael S. Zicherman served as contributing editors of Lexology's Getting the Deal Through - Construction 2023, which provides members of the construction industry, construction-related legal, and business providers with international expert analysis in key areas of law, practice and regulation. They also co-authored the Global Overview (the introduction to the [...] Read More