Contractor Exposure for False Claims Act Violations During Contract Disputes Increases
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
The attached article by Hal Perlof, Esq., of Husch Blackwell provides important information on how a recent court ruling can significantly increase contractor risks for False Claims Act (“FCA”) violations during contract disputes.
Mr. Perlof also provides a very good description of what criteria has to be met before bringing an FCA violation claim and how the new ruling changes the game.
A must keep article for your business files.
Click here for a copy of the article
Non-Discrimination in Compensation – Compensation data collection Tool
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
The Obama’s administration early announcement that they will be proposing a new data collection rule related to “Compensation Discrimination”. This is another attempt on the part of DOL and the Obama’s administration to force contractors to report data on employee and management compensation under the guise of identifying and preventing compensation discrimination. In reality it is a back door effort to force government contractor to either become unionized or to pay wage scales dictated by the union. If also smacks of the heavy handed approach
to government dictating how business are to pay their employees. This is no different than DOL efforts to tell Boeing where it can set up business operations and that any effort to operate in Right to Work states will be met with lawsuits from DOL.
You have an opportunity to comment, please use it. However, the only real way to prevent this proposed rule from becoming finalized it to contact your Congressional Representative loudly and
often. Because this is another attempt to kill capitalization by the Obama administration.
Click here for a copy of the Fed Reg announcing this proposed rule
CAS exemption for contracts performed outside the US no longer applies
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
You will remember that a few months back I sent out a news alert about a proposed rule to remove the exemption from CAS for contracts performed outside the US. The proposal rule is not finalized.
Performing a contract entirely outside the US no longer exempts the contract for CAS coverage if under normal circumstance the contract would be CAS qualified.
Click here for the Feg Reg publication of the final rule
