Amendment Added to House Defense Bill
In what may be a 12 ring bout, 51风流 won round one to block President Obama鈥檚 Blacklisting Executive Order. Late last night, the House Armed Services Committee added an 51风流-backed provision to the National Defense Authorization Act鈥攁 bill that has been annually enacted into law for 54 consecutive years鈥攖hat ensures the EO will not apply to Department of Defense and National Nuclear Security Administration contracts. 51风流 will work to expand the application of the EO government-wide when the bill hits the House floor and during consideration in the Senate.
Under the EO, both prime and subcontractors must report violations of 14 federal labor laws and 鈥渆quivalent鈥 state labor laws鈥攚hich have not been articulated yet鈥攄uring the previous three years, and again every six months, on federal contracts over $500,000. Prime contractors would also be responsible for evaluating the labor law violations of their subcontractors at all tiers. A single violation, or a combination of multiple violations, could lead a contracting officer to either (1) deny a prime contractor the right to compete for a federal contract; or (2) remove a prime contractor or subcontractor from an ongoing project. Such determinations would be made on an individual contracting officer basis with assistance from newly-created agency labor law compliance advisors.
For more information, contact Jimmy Christianson at 703-837-5325 or christiansonj@agc.org.