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April 25, 2018 By AMK

President revokes ‘Fair Pay And Safe Workplaces’ EOs

President Donald J. Trump has loosened the federal government’s grip on businesses looking to secure federal contracts.

On March 27, 2017, the president signed Executive Order 13782 revoking executive orders by President Barak Obama that had regulated the conduct of federal contractors. President Trump’s EO 13782 expressly revokes Obama’s EO 13673, also known as the “Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces” order, as well as subsequent amendments, set forth in Section 3 of EOs 13683 and 13738.

President Obama issued EO 13673 on July 31, 2014, with the stated purpose of ensuring that federal contractors comply with applicable labor laws. EO 13673 contained three major provisions that separately addressed (i) disclosure of compliance with labor laws, (ii) paycheck transparency and (iii) arbitration clauses for claims of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and discrimination.

  • More specifically, EO 13673 required federal agencies to include provisions in their solicitations to potential service providers directing them to disclose “whether there has been any administrative merits determination, arbitral award or decision, or civil judgment” for violations of certain labor laws issued against them within the preceding three years.
  • EO 13673 also required all agency solicitations and contracts to include that service providers must issue to individuals performing work under the contract a document containing information on “that individual’s hours worked, overtime hours, pay and any additions made to or deductions made from pay.”
  • EO 13673 further required agencies to include in their solicitations and contracts a provision that service providers are prohibited from including in their contracts with employees clauses requiring the arbitration of claims arising under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, or sounding in any tort relating to or arising out of sexual assault or harassment.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=692996

 

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: arbitration, discrimination, Executive Order, Fair Pay & Safe Workplaces, labor law

October 14, 2014 By AMK

Arbitration of False Claims Act cases may bind the U.S.

False Claims Act (FCA) qui tam fraud claims must be arbitrated as a result of arbitration agreements signed by relators who have brought FCA Justice Dept. sealfraud claims on the government’s behalf, author Dino L. LaVerghetta of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP says, following the holding of a little-noticed case.

What’s more, he explains, such binding arbitration should bar the U.S. from later re-litigating issues decided in arbitration.

If so, this is a factor that both defendants and the Justice Department must weigh in assessing the grounds for DOJ to intervene in a qui tam case.

Read this article at: 

http://www.wilmerhale.com/uploadedFiles/Shared_Content/Editorial/Publications/Documents/LaVerghetta-BloombergBNA-Arbitration-of-False-Claims-Act-Cases-2014.PDF

 

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: arbitration, DOJ, False Claims Act

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