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Engineering construction workers reject 8.5% pay offer

Construction Enquirer

The employers’ latest two-year offer includes a 8.5% Employers warned that uncertainly about the future of the UK economy had impacted investment and development translating into the low number of significant new build projects on the immediate horizon. increase in both hourly rates and travel allowance for 2024, followed by a 3.5%

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Tax Reform Impact on Employers and Employees

Revit OpEd

The new federal Tax Bill has many provisions that impact employers with respect to their employees. The Tax Bill has many provisions that impact employers with respect to their employees. Drizner and Michael Lobie. Editor’s note : This blog was originally published as a Client Alert by Seyfarth Shaw LLP.

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How to Protect Your Business When Employees Get Poached

Pro Builder

Employers can protect their customer lists, marketing plans, and pricing data from ending up in the hands of competitors by having key employees sign restrictive covenants that prevent them from sharing sensitive or proprietary information. Making the Move to a Competing Employer: Trade Secrets Revealed. Three Most Common Types .

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Sparks agree 7% wage increase from 2024

Construction Enquirer

Electrical Contractors’ Association chief negotiator Andrew Hutchins said: “The last few years have been difficult, and it is beneficial to have some certainty at a time when the wider economy is unpredictable. The two-year deal for the industry also includes a 5% uptick in rates from 2025.

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OSHA Alert: How to Prepare for an OSHA Inspection

FDR Safety

The Opening Conference: Most OSHA inspections start with an unannounced visit by a compliance officer and an Opening Conference. Here are points to remember when it comes to the walk around inspection: The law provides that a representative of the employer shall be given an opportunity to accompany the inspector.

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Best Practice Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting

d) An indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (task order) contract which provides for the use of negotiated, definitive, bilateral orders (i.e., The Small Business Specialist must send a copy of the DD Form 2579 to the Director, Office of Small Business Programs. (e) through discussions and negotiations. See (e)(2).). (b)

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Arizona Construction Salary Survey Says…

Carol Hagen

The Arizona Construction Salary Survey provides you with the employee compensation benchmarks for budgeting and data for best practices during your salary negotiations. for office personnel and 12% for management and executives. The actual reported LinkedIn recruiting usage in the survey were 8.7% for the field workers, 17.4%

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