The Internal Revenue Service has withdrawn both the final and proposed regulations it had issued to implement the now-repealed requirement for all levels of government to withhold 3 percent of the gross contract price from all their contractors to cover those contractors' potential federal tax obligations. This requirement, which would have taken effect in 2013, was repealed by Congress late last year, noted the April 27 issue of the State Laws Newsletter.
Source: Associate Builders and Contractors, Arlington, Va.
A controversial final rule issued by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in December 2011 that overhauls procedures for union representation elections became effective on April 30. Under the rule, commonly known as the "ambush" elections rule, the amount of time between when a union files a representation petition and an election takes place is reduced from the current average of around 40 days to as few as 17-20 days.
Something extraordinary has happened in Washington. In the thick of a bruising election year, Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. Senate have come together in a bipartisan fashion to pass multiyear legislation to fund construction and maintenance on the nation’s highways and bridges.
