Federal Contracts and Procurement

2018 ◽  
pp. 348-349
Keyword(s):  
Federal Contracts

On the Anti-Bribery “Watchlist”: Compliance and Labor/Anti-Trafficking Issues

2019 ◽  
pp. 675-696
Author(s):  
Andrew Boutros
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
Forced Labor ◽  
Labor Laws ◽  
Labor Practices ◽  
Modern Slavery ◽  
Federal Contracts ◽  
The Uk

Today’s companies must understand and prevent the myriad problems flowing from labor issues. Increasingly demanding, serious compliance attention and resources are now being focused on the emerging area of human anti-trafficking and forced labor laws and regulations as they relate to business supply chains. These mandates include the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act, the Executive Order on Strengthening Protections Against Trafficking in Persons in Federal Contracts, and the UK Modern Slavery Act of 2015. By enlisting or conscripting companies into the fight against human trafficking, child labor, and other “forced” or “coerced” labor practices, these laws introduce a wholly new compliance reality requiring accountability and supply chain compliance.

An Economic Evaluation of the Service Contract Act

ILR Review ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert S. Goldfarb ◽  
John S. Heywood
Keyword(s):  
Economic Evaluation ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Service Contract ◽  
Federal Research ◽  
Federal Contracts ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Low Wages ◽  
The Way

The Service Contract Act of 1965 is one of three major laws requiring that “prevailing wages” be paid by private employers with federal contracts. This paper develops a preliminary cost-benefit framework for evaluating that Act. On the benefit side, the authors identify and analyze eight possible rationales for the Act, such as the desire to prevent low wages and to encourage collective bargaining. The authors find most of the rationales to be intellectually unsatisfactory, especially in light of the way in which the Act has actually been administered. On the cost side, the authors develop a methodology for estimating the wage costs of the Act, using as an example the cost of extending coverage to federal research and development contracts. The authors also describe changes in the Act's administrative rules proposed recently by the Carter and Reagan administrations.

Competition and Federal Contractor Performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin M Brunjes
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
Shared Experiences ◽  
Performance Problems ◽  
Federal Contracts ◽  
Improved Performance

Abstract Contracts are increasingly used in government as a way to insert competition into public agencies and policy implementation. Competition among contractors is theorized to drive down costs, encourage innovation, and boost accountability. However, there have been few studies on whether competition actually leads to improved performance among contractors. This analysis examines nearly 25,000 federal contracts to determine how competition is related to performance. Findings indicate that competitively sourced contracts are more likely to suffer from performance problems. However, relationships between contractor and agency correlate with fewer performance problems. This suggests that competition may not be leading to the benefits that many might expect. Instead, relationships and shared experiences, along with other factors, may matter more when seeking to improve contractor performance.

Herbert Hill

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelson Lichtenstein
Keyword(s):  
Labor Unions ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
Workplace Discrimination ◽  
National Labor Relations Board ◽  
Colored People ◽  
Legal Remedies ◽  
Politics And Religion ◽  
De Jure Segregation ◽  
Federal Contracts ◽  
Employment Rights

This chapter presents a portrait of Herbert Hill, who identified himself as “an unreconstructed abolitionist.” As labor secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), he was a combatant in a war against men and women who, by history, politics, and religion, should have been in his camp. Hill was a brilliant and determined crusader who made the most of the limited legal remedies available against workplace discrimination in the 1950s and 1960s. He brought actions before the National Labor Relations Board to decertify unions that violated the nondiscrimination provision in federal contracts, and he carried cases against both labor unions and employers to state antidiscrimination commissions. Hill consciously fashioned this employment rights campaign after the larger NAACP fight to dismantle de jure segregation and discrimination in education, housing, and at the ballot box. He drafted an effective and widely distributed NAACP Labor Manual that described the complex gamut of discrimination tactics in the workplace and advised African Americans that the NAACP was ready to aid them in their fight against such inequities.

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