Date: Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Time: 2 p.m. (ET) / 1 p.m. (CT) / 12 p.m. (MT) / 11 a.m. (PT)
Length: 75 Minutes
Speaker: Maurice Baskin, Esq., Venable LLP (ABC General Counsel)
Registration Fee: $99 for ABC members
Registration is now closed.
The Department of Labor has hired hundreds of investigators to crack down on violations of the Davis-Bacon Act. The act contains many traps for unwary contractors; without a full understanding of the law, even the most experienced executives can be confronted with backpay claims and even debarment.
In this webinar, labor law expert and ABC General Counsel Maury Baskin will offer practical advice on compliance with the prevailing wage and fringe benefit requirements of the Davis-Bacon Act, including:
• The most common mistakes contractors make and how to avoid them
• Understanding Davis-Bacon wage determinations and how they impact contractors
• The problem with employee misclassifications
• Which fringe benefits are "bona fide" and how to take credit for them
• Apprenticeship and Davis-Bacon
• Coping with Davis-Bacon paperwork and penalties for noncompliance
• Similarities and differences between Davis-Bacon and state prevailing wage laws
This webinar is exclusively for ABC member contractors and construction professionals with the following titles:
• Owners
• Senior-level managers
• Project managers
• Human resources professionals
• ABC chapter presidents and chapter staff
Maurice Baskin, partner, Venable LLC, focuses on all aspects of labor and employment law representing management. He counsels and litigates on behalf of employers dealing with union organizing, collective bargaining, wrongful discharge, employment discrimination, arbitration, government contracts, wage/hour law and "prevailing" wages, executive agreements, unfair competition, and personnel advice. For Baskin's full biography, click here.