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employers from entering or attempting to enter into a non-compete agreement with “workers” (employees and independent contractors).

RELATED | Independent Contractor Rule Update These latest revisions would entitle millions of workers

relationships with dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of franchisees, vendors, and contractors. status, from the franchise model to relationships between contractors and subcontractors and suppliers standard also hampers businesses’ efforts to encourage “corporate responsibility” among franchisees, contractors According to the NLRB, the small businesses or entities most likely to be impacted by this proposal are: contractors contractors.

changes expected to take effect beginning in 2023, including pending changes to the Department of Labor’s independent contractor standard, as well as the National Labor Relations Board’s prospective changes to the joint-employer

service-disabled and veteran-owned would not count toward the government's goal of having three percent of contracting Veteran-Owned Small Business Program, which allows the federal government to restrict competition for some contracts Ernst’s bill would not eliminate self-certification or prevent contracts from being awarded to self-certified Ernst, the aim of these Veteran-related provisions is to incentivize federal officials to award contracts Business Program, that allow for self-certification but require formal certification in order for those contracts

The NSBA Veterans’ Network will be hosting its next webinar, “Public and Private Contracts 101,” on Wednesday

SBA) Administrator Isabella Guzman announced that the federal government exceeded its small-business contracting A notable 26.5 percent of federal contract dollars went to small businesses, amounting to an estimated Officials from the Biden Administration estimate this new record in federal contract awards for small Additionally, women-owned small businesses received more than $26 billion in federal contracts, accounting NSBA supports SBA’s efforts to expand federal contracting awards for small businesses nationwide.

Congress and their staff will, in all likelihood, continue to get paid, millions of small-business federal contractors and subcontractors will be impacted by contract delays, stoppages and cancellations. minimum, support measures similar to those extended to federal employees to “make whole” any federal contractor

webinar gave NSBA members an advanced “how to” for fast-tracking defense procurement as a small federal contractor

ins-and-outs of the federal procurement process, including insights from: Shauna Weatherly, a former federal contracting

Joni Ernst (R-Iowa); Speed up payment timelines for small-business subcontractors on federal contracts Ben Cardin (D-Md.); Modify the Defense Department’s (DOD) contract cap amounts under the Small Business Ben Cardin (D-Md.); Repeal the bona fide office rule for 8(a) contracts with DOD. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska); and Increase the federal contracting goal for SDVOBs. Introduced by Sen. Small-Business defense contracting represents a large sector of small-business federal contractors.

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