We may not often think of them this way, but government contractors are perhaps the most heavily regulated sector of our economy. Any company that wishes to work steadily in the federal contracting field needs to be aware of dozens of statutes that govern its behavior. In fact, it will take more than one...
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Employers Beware: D.C. Beefs Up Enforcement of Wage Laws
By Anthony Marchese Last year, the District of Columbia amended its Wage Theft Prevention Act, as well as other local labor laws that apply to companies with workers in the District. The stated purpose of the changes, which took effect in February 2015, is to increase the remedies, fines, and administrative penalties and to beef...
SBA Proposes New Mentor-Protege Program for Small Businesses
The Small Business Administration, which has the mission of expanding federal contract opportunities for various types of small businesses while continuing to work to prevent fraud in these programs, is proposing to establish a government-wide mentor-protégé program for all types of small businesses, parallel to the existing mentor-protégé program under the SBA’s 8(a) business...
To Protect Your Secrets, Get a Non-Disclosure Agreement in Advance
By Anthony Marchese As we highlighted in our previous post on the C.R.T.R case in federal court in Massachusetts, any company that entrusts independent contractors with proprietary information runs the risk that this information could be misused to the company’s detriment. In the absence of any agreement to the contrary, independent contractors are under no...
No Confidentiality Agreement, No Trade-Secret Protection
By Anthony Marchese A Massachusetts lower-court ruling from earlier this year in the area of trade secrets law has drawn a good deal of attention and is worth noting here. In this case, C.R.T.R., Inc. v. Lao, a recycling company called C.R.T.R. hired Kenneth Lao as an independent contractor to help run the business. Lao...