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Changes to Construction Law in 2012: Prevailing Wage Violation Penalties; Off-Haul Trucking
Kevin Jeffery
Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 11:25 am
This is the third in a series on Changes to the Construction Law 2012 by Kevin Jeffery, Graniterock Legal Counsel. For years, the construction industry had endured uncertainty as to whether the off-haul of construction materials from a public works project was covered by the California prevailing wage law (PWL). As this Rock Blog has reported, [...]
Changes to Construction Law in 2012: LLCs Can Now Become Licensed Contractors
Kevin Jeffery
Monday, January 30, 2012, 2:38 pm
This is the second in a series on Changes to the Construction Law 2012 by Kevin Jeffery, Graniterock Legal Counsel. Prior to this year, only individuals, partnerships, corporations and joint ventures were eligible to become licensed as contractor in California. Effective January 1, 2012, the Contractors State License Board began processing license applications from limited [...]
Changes to the Law in 2012: Prompt Payments to Subcontractors & Public Works Retention
Kevin Jeffery
Monday, January 23, 2012, 1:09 pm
This is the first in a series on Changes to the Construction Law 2012 by Kevin Jeffery, Graniterock Legal Counsel. California legislators passed a flurry of laws impacting the construction industry in 2011. Most of them went into effect January 1, 2012. This is the first of a short series of articles describing these legal [...]
California Supreme Court Holds Injured Employee of Independent Contractor Cannot Sue the Contractor’s Hirer for Injury Caused by Cal/OSHA Violation
Kevin Jeffery
Thursday, September 22, 2011, 7:30 am
When the employee of an independent contractor suffers an injury on the jobsite, can the employee recover damages from the entity or individual who hired that independent contractor? This question was raised in an opinion issued by the California Supreme Court last month, Seabright Insurance Company v. US Airways, Inc. The Supreme Court in that [...]
California DIR Tells SF Bay Pipeline Contractors and Truckers That Off-Haul of Excavated Material Is Prevailing Wage
Kevin Jeffery
Wednesday, August 17, 2011, 2:54 pm
California DIR Tells SF Bay Pipeline Contractors and Truckers that Off-Haul of Excavated Material Is Prevailing Wage Work California’s prevailing wage laws require that employers on public works projects pay their employees at specified wage and benefit rates set by the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). Generally, this so-called “prevailing” wage is not [...]
