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48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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308 sections with “employees”: the first 40

  • 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 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 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 252.215-7006 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 252.203-7002 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…
  • 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 3.601 Policy.
    …r other organization owned or substantially owned or controlled by one or more Government employees. This policy is intended to avoid any conflict of interest that might arise between the employees' interests and their Government duties, an…
  • FAR 22.1003-4 Administrative limitations, variations, tolerances, and exemptions.
    …contractor will use the same compensation (wage and fringe benefits) plan for all service employees performing work under the contract as the contractor uses for these employees and equivalent employees servicing the same equipment of comme…
  • 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 22.1703 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 22.1802 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 22.2104 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 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 31.001 Definitions.
    …t accounting period is the present value of the units of benefit deemed to be credited to employees for service in that period. The measure of the actuarial accrued liability at a plan's inception date is the present value of the units of b…
  • FAR 31.205-6 Compensation for personal services.
    …), (j), (k), (m), and (o) of this subsection). (2) The total compensation for individual employees or job classes of employees must be reasonable for the work performed; however, specific restrictions on individual compensation elements ap…
  • FAR 31.205-35 Relocation costs.
    …me in the new work location, except that— (i) These costs are not allowable for existing employees or newly recruited employees who were not homeowners before the relocation; and (ii) The total costs shall not exceed 5 percent of the purc…
  • FAR 52.203-19 Prohibition on Requiring Certain Internal Confidentiality Agreements or Statements.
    …ntiality agreement or any other written statement that the contractor requires any of its employees or subcontractors to sign regarding nondisclosure of contractor information, except that it does not include confidentiality agreements aris…
  • FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …of interests among family members, shared facilities and equipment, and the common use of employees. Inverted domestic corporation means a foreign incorporated entity that meets the definition of an inverted domestic corporation under 6 U.…
  • FAR 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …5. (h) Patent indemnity. The Contractor shall indemnify the Government and its officers, employees and agents against liability, including costs, for actual or alleged direct or contributory infringement of, or inducement to infringe, any …
  • FAR 52.219-1 Small Business Program Representations.
    …m that it did not itself manufacture, process, or produce (i.e., nonmanufacturer), is 500 employees, or 150 employees for information technology value-added resellers under NAICS code 541519, if the acquisition— (i) Is set aside for small …
  • FAR 52.222-26 Equal Opportunity.
    …tirement. Compensation information means the amount and type of compensation provided to employees or offered to applicants, including, but not limited to, the desire of the Contractor to attract and retain a particular employee for the va…
  • FAR 52.222-27 Affirmative Action Compliance Requirements for Construction.
    …ake a good faith effort to achieve each goal under the plan in each trade in which it has employees. The overall good-faith performance by other Contractors or subcontractors toward a goal in an approved plan does not excuse any Contractor'…
  • FAR 52.222-37 Employment Reports on Veterans.
    …rt at least annually, as required by the Secretary of Labor, on— (1) The total number of employees in the contractor's workforce, by job category and hiring location, who are protected veterans (i.e., active duty wartime or campaign badge …
  • FAR 52.222-40 Notification of Employee Rights Under the National Labor Relations Act.
    …y the Secretary of Labor, in conspicuous places in and about its plants and offices where employees covered by the National Labor Relations Act engage in activities relating to the performance of the contract, including all places where not…
  • FAR 52.222-41 Service Contract Labor Standards.
    …cations and the classifications listed in the wage determination. Such conformed class of employees shall be paid the monetary wages and furnished the fringe benefits as are determined pursuant to the procedures in this paragraph (c). (ii)…
  • FAR 52.222-50 Combating Trafficking in Persons.
    …, selecting, training, providing orientation to, skills testing, recommending, or placing employees or potential employees; (ii) Advertising; (iii) Obtaining permanent or temporary labor certification, including any associated fees; (iv)…
  • FAR 52.222-54 Employment Eligibility Verification.
    …r in the E-Verify program within 30 calendar days of contract award; (ii) Verify all new employees. Within 90 calendar days of enrollment in the E-Verify program, begin to use E-Verify to initiate verification of employment eligibility of …
  • FAR 52.222-62 Paid Sick Leave Under Executive Order 13706.
    …31, subchapter IV), or the Fair Labor Standards Act (29 U.S.C. chapter 8); (B) Including employees who qualify for an exemption from the Fair Labor Standards Act's minimum wage and overtime provisions; (C) Regardless of the contractual re…
  • FAR 52.225-19 Contractor Personnel in a Designated Operational Area or Supporting a Diplomatic or Consular Mission Outside the United States.
    …ty training. The training must at a minimum— (A) Cover safety and security issues facing employees overseas; (B) Identify safety and security contingency planning activities; and (C) Identify ways to utilize safety and security personnel…
  • FAR 52.226-5 Restrictions on Subcontracting Outside Disaster or Emergency Area.
    … percent of the cost of contract performance incurred for personnel shall be expended for employees of the Contractor or employees of other businesses residing or primarily doing business in the clause at FAR 52.226—4, Notice of Disaster or…
  • FAR 52.226-7 Drug-Free Workplace.
    …e performance of work done by the Contractor in connection with a specific contract where employees of the Contractor are prohibited from engaging in the unlawful manufacture, distribution, dispensing, possession, or use of a controlled sub…
  • FAR 52.228-4 Workers' Compensation and War-Hazard Insurance Overseas.
    … compensation insurance under the Defense Base Act (42 U.S.C. 1651 et seq.). On behalf of employees for whom the applicability of the Defense Base Act has been waived, the Contractor shall (1) provide, before commencing performance under th…
  • DFARS 252.217-7012 Liability and insurance.
    …Contractor shall exercise its best efforts to prevent accidents, injury, or damage to all employees, persons, and property, in and about the work, and to the vessel or part of the vessel upon which work is done. (b) Loss or damage to the v…
  • DFARS 252.225-7040 Contractor Personnel Supporting U.S. Armed Forces Deployed Outside the United States.
    …tter of authorization. CAAF generally include all U.S. citizen and third-country national employees not normally residing within the operational area whose area of performance is in the direct vicinity of U.S. Armed Forces and who routinely…
  • 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 3.1103 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 19.505 Limitations on subcontracting and nonmanufacturer rule.
    …3) of this section for determining the manufacturer of an end item); (ii) Not exceed 500 employees, or 150 employees for information technology value-added resellers under NAICS code 541519; (iii) Be primarily engaged in the retail or who…
  • FAR 22.402 Applicability.
    …nvolving construction, alteration, or repair of a public building or public work); (iii) Employees of railroads operating under collective bargaining agreements that are subject to the Railway Labor Act; or (iv) Employees who work at cont…

FAR (chapter 1)

DFARS (chapter 2, Defense)

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