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2017 Conaway Conference Dates
If you are filling in your calendar for 2017, you may want to include the Conaway Conference. The dates of this collaborative conference between OCA and ODOT will be March 14 and 15. Contact Chris Engle or Rachel Sirca with questions.
Estimating Competition Searching for a Project…
Every year the students participating in the OCA Estimating Competition use a previously-constructed project from one of our members. Last year’s students estimated a bridge repair project in Ashland County, presented by The Ruhlin Co. We are now looking for a new project for the 2017 competition. If you are willing to attend a couple of meetings to discuss your project, and give a presentation to those attending the competition, please contact Rachel Sirca at 614-488-0724 or [email protected].
2016 Edition of Workforce Magazine Now On-Line
To view the 2016 edition of Workforce Magazine, please click on the following link: http://ohiocontractormagazine.com/OC-Workforce-2016/index.html?r=74.
Chamber, 21 States File Lawsuits to Block Overtime Rule
Coalitions of business groups and states sued the Labor Department within hours of each other, seeking to block the new overtime rule (Nevada v. Labor Dept., E.D. Tex., No. 4-16-cv-00731, complaint 9/20/16; Plano Chamber of Commerce v. Perez, E.D. Tex., No. 4:16-cv-0732, complaint 9/20/16). Litigation is considered the best avenue for stopping the rule from going into effect in December because congressional efforts face a veto threat.
The two lawsuits were filed Sept. 20 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas—one from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups and another from 21 mostly Southern and Midwestern states. Nevada and Texas are the lead plaintiffs. Both lawsuits were assigned to Judge Amos Mazzant, who was nominated by President Barack Obama in 2014.
Mazzant is the only one of the three judges serving in the Eastern District's Sherman division to be nominated by a Democratic president. The states and the Chamber are likely to appeal immediately to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit if Mazzant shoots down their requests for an injunction blocking the rule. A Fifth Circuit panel recently affirmed an injunction freezing an Obama administration program to expand deportation protections for certain undocumented workers. Click here to read this article in its entirety.
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