UPDATE: Chief Executive Magazine, Best & Worst States for Business (May 2014) — In the 10th annual survey of CEOs, over 500 CEOs across the U.S. graded states with which they were familiar on a variety of measures, including the tax and regulatory regime, the quality of the workforce and…
You can never be 100% sure of what you will find below the surface when you begin excavating on a construction project. But I’m willing to bet construction workers in Seattle, Washington never anticipated finding a very rare 10,000 year old mammoth tusk. An employee of a plumbing subcontractor uncovered…
Today, Pillsbury attorneys William M. Sullivan, Jr., and Benjamin J. Cote published their advisory titled Feds’ Reliance on Environmental Activism Underscores Need for Lacey Act Compliance. This advisory discusses the search warrant recently executed by U.S. Customs and Fish and Wildlife Service agents on a Virginia-based flooring wholesaler premised on…
Privacy has and continues to be a hot topic in California and across the nation. On February 13, 2014, the California Office of the Attorney General confirmed that the “[c]ontinuous videotaping surveillance of truck drivers during their on-the-job driving does not constitute a misdemeanor under [California] Labor Code section 1051
Brewer Corporation v. Point Center Financial, Inc. Fourth Appellate District, Division 1 (San Diego County) January 31, 2014 Direct contractors who fail to serve a preliminary 20-day stop payment notice on the project’s construction lender do so at their own peril. The California Court of Appeal (hereinafter, the “Court”) recently…
New Jersey’s State Board of Examiners of Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (HVACR) Contractors (Board) has extended the operative date of its regulations, N.J.A.C. 13:32A, implementing the “State Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Contracting License Law”, N.J.S.A. 45:16A-1 et seq. (Act), to March 1, 2014. The Board will…
Beginning January 1, 2014, California has replaced the Enterprise Zone Hiring Credit with the New Employment Credit and the California Competes Credit, each of which may be used to offset the Personal Income Tax and Corporation Tax. For more information, today, Pillsbury attorneys, Jeffrey M. Vesely, Paul Casas and Annie…
For taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2014 and before January 1, 2025, the California Competes Tax Credit will be allowed against the net tax in the amount allocated by the California Competes Tax Credit Committee. A taxpayer must enter into a written agreement with the Governor’s Office…
UPDATE: CSLB, New C-22 Asbestos Classification Update; CSLB, Proposed New C-22 Asbestos Classification in the Works (Apr. 2, 2014) The California Contractors State License Board (CSLB) recently posted notice of a proposal to add to its regulations located at Title 16, Division 8, Article 3 of the California Code of…
Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) recently posted its list of Major Solar Projects in the United States Operating, Under Construction, or Under Development (updated Feb. 3, 2014), which includes ground-mounted solar projects, 1 MW and above, compiled from company press releases, news releases and, in some cases, conversations with developers.…