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The Biden-era Project Labor Agreement (“PLA”) Executive Order lives on says the 11th Circuit and is enforced by the Trump Administration. Simply put, the federal government as a proprietor can specify its needs and likely has the right to contract in its government procurements as it largely wishes when it comes to PLAs, at least for the time being.
The misbegotten Biden-era attempt to apply the Davis-Bacon Act (“DBA”) by operation of law to contracts that omit the clauses and wage determinations is likely to soon be completely dead. And if you are a trucker or materialman business bringing goods to a DBA covered work site, you are now less likely to be caught up regulatory web and covered by the DBA.
Back in 2020, on the cusp of the pandemic, I received an email allegedly from a former employee of a national business claiming he was sexually harassed by his female supervisor and had negotiated a six-figure settlement with the company but then had not been paid. He asked for legal assistance. I demurred, but thereafter a very complex business fraud unspooled before my eyes, trying to tempt me to go for easy money.