Government Contracts, Supplies, and Financial Aids: The Labor Conditions Requirements for Your Employees

The standards set for the employers of labor are not only for those categories of employers that are in the private sectors engaging only in the provision of their goods and services for and through the private sector of the economy.

The various labor laws and regulations with their labor law posters also encompass all those firms and organizations that are beneficial s of government contracts, grants, and financial aids. Such entities are made to comply with the Department of Labor hour, wage, benefits, and health and safety standards which are administered and enforced by such Department of Labor agencies like The office of the Federal Contract Compliance programs (OFCCP), The Office of The Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management (OASAM), and to a large extent The Wage and Hour Division.

The Wages and Hour Division administered and enforced the three laws below:

• The McNamara O’Hara Service Contract Act, that sets standards for workers of contractors working on Government Contracts’ labor law poster, (Service Contract Act) Wage and Hour Division, 29 CFR 4.6(e), .184

• The Davis Bacon Act, that ensures that employees of contractors executing federal government construction projects are pay the most current wages and benefits. Duly cover by  labor law poster called the ‘Notice To All Employees Working On All Federal Or Federally Financed Construction Projects’ ,(Davis Bacon Act) Wage and Hour Division, 29 CFR 5.5(a)(I)

• The Walsh Healey Public Contract Act, which make provisions for various labor law standards including the payments of minimum wage by those contractors providing material supplies to the federal government.

The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs administers and enforces the ‘Equal Opportunities Is the Law’ labor law poster under the provisions of Executive Order 11246, Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of1973, and 38 U.S.C. 4212 of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, as amended.

The Department of Labor also administered and enforced federal assistance based civil rights laws for those enjoying federal financial assistance to provide equal opportunity through the Civil Right Center of the Office of The Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management.

The various states also have their own localize states labor laws and regulations on those contractors and employers providing services to the respective states. These laws and regulations are sometimes back by state labor law posters that must be comply to by those contractors and suppliers including other organizations that fall under such provisions. An example is the New York labor law poster tag the   ‘New York Wage Order Building Industry poster’.