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The Fair Labor Standards Act regulates minimum wage and overtime due to employees. It was passed in the 1930s. It was largely forgotten until the late 1990s, when some entrepreneurial plaintiffs’ lawyers rediscovered the FLSA and its automatic...By: Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Dear YouDig? Emergency!  We are in the middle of digging some deep trenches for an Ohio sewer project. I kid you not, we showed up this morning and there were at least 20 wild turkeys pacing and poking around in the trench.......By: Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Dear YouDig?, We are in the middle of a massive addition to our warehouse. The value is high seven figures in construction services. We don’t do this all the time but we fell in love with the Design-Builder, signed their form and asked them to...By: Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Dear YouDig?, I admit it. As an engineer I like to tinker. A few months in to a factory project our team tinkered up a change in the materials and the delivery system that would save the owner a bucket of money for just a little more time. Once we...By: Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Buckingham Tax Attorneys Steve Dimengo and Rich Fry recently obtained a favorable ruling from the 9th District Court of Appeals for their client in Karvo Paving Co. v. Testa, 2019-Ohio-3974. This victory enables highway and road paving contractors to...By: Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Dear YouDig?, As an Ohio highway contractor we must include an incredible amount of temporary structures on our jobs and even temporary personnel from time to time. We don’t understand why we are getting popped with paying sales taxes on the...By: Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Ohio local hiring laws affecting contractors are destroyed, for now. Municipalities will no longer be able to force local hiring upon contractors for various jobs. This especially impacts large cities and their citizens with the ambition to work in...By: Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Dear YouDig? I am CEO of a mid-west  manufacturing company. At long last, those extremely tough times have drifted away. We are thrilled with our plans to construct a new state-of-the-art facility opening in 2020. The options for construction...By: Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Dear YouDig?, We have been very successful in constructing strip centers throughout the Midwest. Our success has brought us many opportunities to venture into other areas. We always stay in our lane and reject these opportunities, until now. A...By: Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Dear YouDig?, I am majoring in construction management in O-H-I-O. Love this stuff. Help me out though. I am getting mixed signals from my professors and from what I read in various publications and social media, including some prominent tweeters....By: Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC