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389 sections with “Employee”: the first 40

  • FAR 22.1019 Additional classes of service employees.
    …If the contracting officer is aware that contract performance involves classes of service employees not included in the wage determination, the contracting officer shall require the contractor to classify the unlisted classes so as to provi…
  • FAR 31.205-13 Employee morale, health, welfare, food service, and dormitory costs and credits.
    …) Aggregate costs incurred on activities designed to improve working conditions, employer-employee relations, employee morale, and employee performance (less income generated by these activities) are allowable, subject to the limitations co…
  • FAR 52.222-40 Notification of Employee Rights Under the National Labor Relations Act.
    As prescribed in 22.1605, insert the following clause: Notification of Employee Rights Under the National Labor Relations Act (DEC 2010) (a) During the term of this contract, the Contractor shall post an employee notice, of such size and …
  • FAR 52.222-46 Evaluation of Compensation for Professional Employees.
    … in 22.1103, insert the following provision: Evaluation of Compensation for Professional Employees (FEB 1993) (a) Recompetition of service contracts may in some cases result in lowering the compensation (salaries and fringe benefits) paid…
  • FAR 52.203-17 Contractor Employee Whistleblower Rights.
    As prescribed in 3.906, insert the following clause: Contractor Employee Whistleblower Rights (NOV 2023) (a) This contract and employees working on this contract will be subject to the whistleblower rights and remedies established at 41 U…
  • FAR 22.1018 Notification to contractors and employees.
    The contracting officer shall take the following steps to ensure that service employees are notified of minimum wages and fringe benefits. (a) As soon as possible after contract award, inform the contractor of the labor standards requireme…
  • DFARS 252.203-7002 Requirement to Inform Employees of Whistleblower Rights.
    As prescribed in 203.970, use the following clause: Requirement To Inform Employees of Whistleblower Rights (DEC 2022) (a) The Contractor shall inform its employees in writing, in the predominant native language of the workforce, of contr…
  • DFARS 252.215-7006 Use of Employees or Individual Subcontractors Who Are Members of the Selected Reserve.
    As prescribed in 215.370-3, use the following clause: Use of Employees or Individual Subcontractors Who Are Members of the Selected Reserve (MAR 2022) (a) Definition. As used in this clause— Selected Reserve has the meaning given that te…
  • DFARS 252.270-7002 Pilot Program to Incentivize Contracting with Employee-Owned Businesses.
    …d in 270.105(c), use the following clause: Pilot Program To Incentivize Contracting With Employee-Owned Businesses (NOV 2024) (a) Definition. As used in this clause— Qualified business means an S corporation as defined in 26 U.S.C. 1361(…
  • DFARS 252.270-7000 Pilot Program to Incentivize Contracting with Employee-Owned Businesses—Representation.
    …n 270.105(a), use the following provision: Pilot Program To Incentivize Contracting With Employee-Owned Businesses—Representation (NOV 2024) (a) Definition. As used in this provision, qualified business has the meaning given in the Defens…
  • DFARS 252.270-7001 Pilot Program to Incentivize Contracting with Employee-Owned Businesses—Subcontracting Certification.
    …n 270.105(b), use the following provision: Pilot Program To Incentivize Contracting With Employee-Owned Businesses—Subcontracting Certification (NOV 2024) (a) Definition. As used in this provision, qualified business has the meaning given…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    …form the contract. Classified contract means any contract in which the contractor or its employees must have access to classified information during contract performance. A contract may be a classified contract even though the contract doc…
  • FAR 3.104-2 General.
    …employment,”(see subpart F of 5 CFR part 2636 and 3.104-3(c)(2)). Government officers and employees (employees) are prohibited by 18 U.S.C. 208 and 5 CFR part 2635 from participating personally and substantially in any particular matter tha…
  • FAR 3.502-2 Subcontractor kickbacks.
    …rom any person who knowingly engages in such prohibited conduct and from any person whose employee, subcontractor, or subcontractor employee provides, accepts, or charges a kickback. (d) Provides that— (1) The contracting officer may offs…
  • FAR 3.601 Policy.
    …fied in 3.602, a contracting officer shall not knowingly award a contract to a Government employee or to a business concern or other organization owned or substantially owned or controlled by one or more Government employees. This policy is…
  • FAR 3.801 Definitions.
    …ng, with the intent to influence, any communication to or appearance before an officer or employee of any agency, a Member of Congress, an officer or employee of Congress, or an employee of a Member of Congress in connection with any covere…
  • FAR 3.803 Exceptions.
    …does not apply under the following conditions: (1) Agency and legislative liaison by own employees. (i) Payment of reasonable compensation made to an officer or employee of a person requesting or receiving a covered Federal action if the p…
  • FAR 3.903 Policy.
    …ractors are prohibited from discharging, demoting, or otherwise discriminating against an employee as a reprisal for disclosing, to any of the entities listed at paragraph (b) of this section, information that the employee reasonably believ…
  • FAR 3.1101 Definitions.
    …(8) Determining whether contract costs are reasonable, allocable, and allowable. Covered employee means an individual who performs an acquisition function closely associated with inherently governmental functions and is— (1) An employee o…
  • FAR 3.1103 Procedures.
    …-16, as prescribed at 3.1106, the contracting officer shall require each contractor whose employees perform acquisition functions closely associated with inherently Government functions to— (1) Have procedures in place to screen covered em…
  • FAR 22.406-2 Wages, fringe benefits, and overtime.
    … these items shall be determined by dividing the employer's contributions or costs by the employee's hours worked during the period covered by the costs or contributions. For example, if a contractor pays a monthly health insurance premium …
  • FAR 22.406-8 Investigations.
    …iliar with labor laws and their application to contracts. (2) Do not disclose contractor employees' oral or written statements taken during an investigation or the employee's identity to anyone other than an authorized Government official …
  • FAR 22.802 General.
    …prohibit contractors from discharging, or in any other manner discriminating against, any employee or applicant for employment because the employee or applicant inquired about, discussed, or disclosed the compensation of the employee or app…
  • FAR 22.1003-4 Administrative limitations, variations, tolerances, and exemptions.
    …ntemplated at the time the contract is made that the owner-operator will hire any service employee to perform the services under the contract except for short periods of vacation time or for unexpected contingencies or emergency situations …
  • FAR 22.1008-2 Successorship with incumbent contractor collective bargaining agreement.
    …and, if so, whether the incumbent prime contractor or its subcontractors and any of their employees have a collective bargaining agreement. (b) 41 U.S.C. 6707(c) provides that a successor contractor must pay wages and fringe benefits (incl…
  • FAR 22.1016 Statement of equivalent rates for Federal hires.
    …benefits that would be paid by the contracting activity to the various classes of service employees expected to be utilized under the contract if 5 U.S.C. 5332 (General Schedule—white collar) and/or 5 U.S.C. 5341 (Wage Board—blue collar) we…
  • FAR 22.1103 Policy, procedures, and solicitation provision.
    All professional employees shall be compensated fairly and properly. Accordingly, the contracting officer shall insert the provision at 52.222-46, Evaluation of Compensation for Professional Employees, in solicitations for negotiated contra…
  • FAR 22.1301 Definitions.
    …cause of a service-connected disability. Executive and senior management means— (1) Any employee— (i) Compensated on a salary basis at a rate of not less than $455 per week (or $380 per week, if employed in American Samoa by employers ot…
  • FAR 22.1702 Definitions.
    …s used in this subpart— Agent means any individual, including a director, an officer, an employee, or an independent contractor, authorized to act on behalf of the organization. Coercion means— (1) Threats of serious harm to or physical …
  • FAR 22.1703 Policy.
    …ucts. Government solicitations and contracts shall— (a) Prohibit contractors, contractor employees, subcontractors, subcontractor employees, and their agents from— (1) Engaging in severe forms of trafficking in persons during the period o…
  • FAR 22.1704 Violations and remedies.
    …pter 78), E.O. 13627, or the policies of this subpart if— (1) The contractor, contractor employee, subcontractor, subcontractor employee, or agent engages in severe forms of trafficking in persons during the period of performance of the co…
  • FAR 22.1802 Policy.
    …pursuant to a performance bond; (3) Use E-Verify to verify employment eligibility of all employees assigned to the contract; and (4) Include these requirements, as required by the clause at 52.222-54, in subcontracts for— (i)Services, ex…
  • FAR 22.2101 Definitions.
    …CFR 13.2)— Accrual year means the 12-month period during which a contractor may limit an employee's accrual of paid sick leave to no less than 56 hours (see 29 CFR 13.5(b)(1)). Certification issued by a health care provider has the meanin…
  • FAR 22.2104 Exclusions.
    The following are excluded from coverage under this subpart: (a) Employees performing in connection with contracts covered by the E.O. for less than 20 percent of their work hours in a given workweek. This exclusion is inapplicable to empl…
  • FAR 22.2105 Paid sick leave for Federal contractors and subcontractors.
    …ng contractor requirements apply: (a) Accrual. (1) Contractors are required to permit an employee to accrue not less than 1 hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked on or in connection with a contract covered by the E.O. (see 29 C…
  • FAR 22.2109 Enforcement of Executive Order 13706 paid sick leave requirements.
    …ministrator of the Wage and Hour Division and may be brought by any person (including the employee), entity, or organization that believes a violation of this subpart has occurred. (2) The identity of any individual who makes a written or …
  • FAR 24.102 General.
    …ency function the agency must apply the requirements of the Act to the contractor and its employees working on the contract. (b) An agency officer or employee may be criminally liable for violations of the Act. When the contract provides f…
  • FAR 26.503 Definitions.
    …e manufacture, distribution, dispensing, possession, or use of any controlled substance. Employee means an employee of a contractor directly engaged in the performance of work under a Government contract. Directly engaged is defined to inc…
  • FAR 26.504 Policy.
    … that it will provide a drug-free workplace by— (1) Publishing a statement notifying its employees that the unlawful manufacture, distribution, dispensing, possession, or use of a controlled substance is prohibited in the contractor's work…
  • FAR 28.305 Overseas workers' compensation and war-hazard insurance.
    …Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (33 U.S.C. 901) to various classes of employees working outside the United States, including those engaged in performing— (1) Public-work contracts; or (2) Contracts approved or financed…

FAR (chapter 1)

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Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Rule changes in progress: FAR, DFARS. Terms: glossary.