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  2. American Federation of Government Employees, Local 2463 ...

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    According to the settlement, which reflects the Smithsonian Institution's "cooperation and commitment to compliance with the FLSA," the Smithsonian agreed to pay $7 million to resolve Local 2463 AFGE union claims on behalf of aggrieved current and former employees who were not properly compensated for time worked. [14]

  3. United States contract law - Wikipedia

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    Contract law regulates the obligations established by agreement, whether express or implied, between private parties in the United States. The law of contracts varies from state to state; there is nationwide federal contract law in certain areas, such as contracts entered into pursuant to Federal Reclamation Law.

  4. Government procurement in the United States - Wikipedia

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    For starters, the Government has to pay interest from the date of receipt to the date of payment. Second, if the amount is over a specified amount, then the claim must be certified (see the FAR and CDA). Certification is essentially a company swearing under pain of 18 USC false claims act penalties that they are not falsifying the claim.

  5. Warranty - Wikipedia

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    A warranty is a term of a contract, but not usually a condition of the contract or an innominate term, meaning that it is a term "not going to the root of the contract", [6] and therefore only entitles the innocent party to damages if it is breached, [6] i.e. if the warranty is not true or the defaulting party does not perform the contract in ...

  6. Card check - Wikipedia

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    The current method for workers to form a union in a particular workplace in the United States is a sign-up, and then an election process. In that, a petition or an authorization card with the signatures of at least 30% of the employees requesting a union is submitted to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), who then verifies and orders a secret ballot election.

  7. Labor unions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The employer and the union write the terms and conditions of employment in a legally binding contract. When disputes arise over the contract, most contracts call for the parties to resolve their differences through a grievance process to see if the dispute can be mutually resolved.

  8. Taylor Law - Wikipedia

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    In 1970 was the birth of Union Local 2007, which was also responsible in paving the way for all other public sector unions in Albany, New York. The Taylor Law has been a frequent target for upstate New York anti-union activists; they claim that it severely limits the ability of governments to limit spending on unionized labor, with minimal ...

  9. Contract - Wikipedia

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    A term is a condition (rather than an intermediate or innominate term, or a warranty), in any of the following five situations: (1) statute explicitly classifies the term in this way; (2) there is a binding judicial decision supporting this classification of a particular term as a "condition"; (3) a term is described in the contract as a ...