A guidebook on the labor and employment laws and issues contractors need to be familiar with, including Davis-Bacon wage and hour laws, equal employment/affirmative action, occupational safety and health, wrongful discharge law, immigration law, and chapter apprenticeship programs. The Guide is also the source book for the publications indicated below by an asterisk.
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Provides a practical outline of how to operate lawfully as an open shop employer.
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Excerpts from ABC’s Guide to Practical Labor Law provides practical guidance for contractors on picketing and other forms of protests, including information on dual gates and a checklist for the “dos and don’ts” when confronting picketing campaign.
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Excerpts from ABC’s Guide to Practical Labor Law provides a checklist of what an employer the “dos and don’ts” when communicating with employees about union organizing. Includes “TIPS” strategy to avoid pitfalls prior to receiving professional guidance.
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Provides background information and guidance for responding to union job targeting campaigns that subsidize labor costs on selected projects to enable union contractors to underbid their merit shop competitors.
A handbook to help contractors build and protect their company’s reputation. Provides background on corporate campaigns, gives guidance on legal action and other ways to respond to unscrupulous attack campaigns aimed at undermining a contractor’s reputation.
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Excerpts from ABC’s Guide to Practical Labor Law providing guidance on setting up and running a “dual shop” or “double-breasted” operation. Includes 2005 legal memorandum from ABC general counsel Maury Baskin.
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Compendium of policies and procedures on various and relevant workplace topics ranging from recruitment to retirement that contractors and chapters might want to include in their Employee Handbook.
Gives an overview of union-only project labor agreements (PLAs), by which construction owners/developers require successful bidders to sign collective bargaining agreements with labor unions as a condition of being allowed to perform work on a project. Case study examples throughout this publication illustrate the impact of PLAs on merit shop contractors.
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Excerpts from ABC’s Guide to Practical Labor Law providing an overview of how salting is used by the unions (including in apprenticeship programs); provides a sample hiring policy for merit-shop contractors, helpful Qs & As on salting, and a “do’s and don’ts” salting checklist.
Suggested language to use when speaking with employees about union organizing.
Provides an overview of the NLRB’s elections procedures and provides excerpts from the following relevant chapters of ABC’s Guide to Practical Labor Law: Chapter III, which addresses what to do when union organizing starts; Chapter IV, which provides questions and answers for dealing with union salts; and Chapter V, which addresses how to deal with union picketing.
The most effective management training tool dealing with salting.
*Excerpt from the ABC Guide to Practical Labor Law