Even Short Contract Extensions Require Updated Service Contract Act Wages
Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 11.03.04
Even a short (monthly or semi-monthly) extension of a contract subject to the Service Contract Act is considered a "new contract" requiring the government to incorporate new collective bargaining agreement wage and fringe benefit rates, the ASBCA held in Guardian Moving & Storage Co. (Sept. 23, 2004). The same reasoning--and rule--would require the incorporation of the latest available area wage determination where no collective bargaining agreement applied.
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Client Alert | 10 min read | 03.19.26
[1] In a recent development, the UK Supreme Court ruled that Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are not excluded from patentability due to being a computer program “as such.” In doing so, the Court set out the framework of a new test for the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) to use when evaluating the patentability of computer. The ruling breaks down barriers to the patenting of AI algorithms in the UK and paves the way for a wider change in the UK IPO’s approach to assessing excluded subject matter.
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CFTC Takes Additional Steps Toward Prediction Market Regulation: What You Need to Know
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