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As most government contractors are aware, progress payments are a form of contract financing in which the Government pays the contractor based on cost throughout performance of the contract, up to a cap dictated by the terms of the contract. On...By: McCarter & English - Government Contracts &

The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (the “SECURE Act”), which was passed as part of two spending bills signed by President Trump on December 20, 2019, contains extensive changes affecting employer-sponsored...By: McCarter & English, LLP

Transactions that close on or after February 27, 2020, will be subject to revised thresholds under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (HSR Act). The threshold adjustments are the result of the 2000 Amendments to the...By: McCarter & English, LLP

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy last week signed into law several bills aimed at combating the misclassification of workers as independent contractors rather than as employees. The new enactments expand the authority of the New Jersey Department of...By: McCarter & English, LLP

A highly anticipated decision granting a preliminary injunction preventing California from applying its new independent contractor test to motor carriers was issued by Senior U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez on January 12. While the ruling was...By: McCarter & English, LLP

Good news for the motor carrier industry … for now. A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order that prevents the state of California from enforcing a strict independent contractor misclassification law against motor carriers—that was...By: McCarter & English, LLP

With a steady decline in private sector unionization and a lack of political muscle to change the National Labor Relations Act (“Act”), organized labor in the Obama era relied heavily on decisional rulings from the National Labor Relations Board...By: McCarter & English, LLP

On August 6, 2014, plaintiff-relator Andrew Scollick filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against eighteen defendants for multiple violations of the False Claims Act (“FCA”) in connection with an alleged...By: McCarter & English - Government Contracts &

Since 1982, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) has interpreted the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) to prohibit employers from denying non-employee union organizers access to those parts of the employer’s private property...By: McCarter & English, LLP