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You Blinked; You Missed it

WebAfter being frozen for two years, the SCA H&W rates were modestly adjusted upwards by DOL effective July 16, 2021.

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Upward Ho: New Service Contract Act Health and Welfare Rates

WebFor contracts that have WDs for employees covered by the Hawaii Prepaid Healthcare Act, the rate is $2.04 per hour (or $81.60 per week, or $353.60 per month for …

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Back to Basics: Service Contract Act Q&As

WebNow You See It; Now You Don’t -- Service Contract Act Coverage of Indirect Employees. By Daniel Abrahams, Service Contract Act, Wage & HourDaniel …

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What Me Worry -- New SCA H&W Rates Issued by AAM 230.

WebThe AAM posted new health and welfare (“H&W”) fringe benefit rates for Service Contract Act (“SCA”) covered contracts effective July 5, 2019. For SCA-covered …

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Must Cash Payments in Lieu of SCA Mandated Fringe Benefits be …

WebThe Service Contract Act requires federal service contractors to provide certain fringe benefits to their employees. Some contractors pay cash in lieu of providing …

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Does the Service Contract Act Wage Rate Change

WebWhen Service Contract Act (“SCA”) covered nonexempt employees work at home or an alternate work site, does the employer have to get a new wage determination …

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DOL Is Putting Service Contract Act Fringe Benefit Plan …

WebThe SCA bars contractors from allocating their own plan administrative expenses towards compliance with the prevailing H&W fringe benefit However, this …

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A Modest Proposal for Prepayment of SCA Vacation Benefits

WebAdvance Payment of Fringe Benefits for Certain SCA Covered Workers. 1.1 Under the Service Contract Act (SCA) and applicable law, employees are entitled to paid …

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Creating Trusts to Skirt Self-insured Unfunded Fringe Benefit Plans …

WebUnder the Service Contract Act (“SCA”), employers with self-insured unfunded health and weflare (“H&W”) plans are better off forming a trust and paying acturial …

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Trees Don’t Grow to the Sky: New Service Contract Act Health and

WebThe new Service Contract Act (“SCA”) health and welfare (“H&W”) rates are out and made effective to new solicitations and contracts on June 27, 2023. Except for in …

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Why Are There Two Methods

WebThe new SCA H&W benefit rates are generally $4.48 per hour on or after July 11, 2018. But for SCA-covered contracts subject to Executive Order 13706 (the …

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Service Contract Act Cash Fringe Benefits -- Timing Is Everything

WebUnder the Service Contract Act (“SCA”), employers who choose to pay cash fringe benefits for health and welfare (“H&W”) must make the monetary equivalent …

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How Often Must an Employer Reconcile a SCA Fringe Benefit Plan

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Revelations on Service Contract Act H&W Inflation and the CPI Rate

WebHe noted that the new H&W rate was increased in June 2022 to $4.80 an hour from a former level of $4.60. (Of course, if there is a sick leave executive order …

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Requesting Approval of Your Unfunded, Self-Insured Benefit Plan …

Web“Red tape will often get in your way. It’s one of the reasons I often carry scissors!” – Richard Branson. Many federal contractors are large enough to cut out the …

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The Lear Siegler Service Contract Act Price Adjustment Case …

WebLear Siegler Servs., Inc. v. Secretary of Defense, 2006 WL 2088273 (Fed. Cir. July 28, 2006) The Government may not deny a contractor’s price increase under …

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The Service Contract Act Vacation Benefit Requirement-- No Take …

WebWhile each obligation can prove challenging, one of the most troubling compliance issues for employers can be the vacation benefit requirement. Under the …

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Is a Covid-19 Vaccination Bonus Included in the Regular Rate of Pay

WebThere, the employer is able to exclude from the regular rate its cost of providing vaccination clinics such as the annual flu vaccine. The employer also is …

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Under the Service Contract Act, Can Workers Bargain for Lower …

WebThe SCA doesn’t make the prevailing wage rate into a floor on rates in a section 4(c) unionized collective bargaining situation. The regulatory admonition that the …

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