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14 Dec 2017, 4:15 am by Elaine C. Kamarck
Bush, having the private sector do public work was a matter of ideology as much as it was a matter of practicality. [read post]
4 Dec 2019, 6:10 am
 * A literal example on the foreign policy front is the privatization of war: in 2016, one in four U.S. personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan was a private contractor. [read post]
8 Mar 2011, 12:39 pm by MorelliRatner
There is now a one-to-one ratio of private military contractors to U.S. soldiers in America’s wars abroad.read more [read post]
15 Dec 2015, 7:47 am by Joy Waltemath
The NLRB reasonably found that a private university violated the NLRA when it disciplined an employee of its on-site maintenance contractor for handbilling on university property, the D.C. [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 6:27 am by Ezra Rosser
A case study from New York City of how private contractors succeeded in reducing welfare roles while imposing punitive policies on poor families offers a glimpse of possible new advocacy tools. [read post]
9 Dec 2009, 11:58 am by hjmarcus
SRO 09-111: State Ed declared in a recent memo to school folks that school districts “do not have the authority to contract with independent contractors for instructional services which are the very core and function of a school district. [read post]
14 Feb 2011, 4:00 pm by John P. Ahlers
The act allows the government or private plaintiffs to recover their fees if they prevail, but it only allows defendants to recover their fees only if the claim is shown to be frivolous--an almost impossible standard to meet. [read post]
12 Sep 2009, 2:59 am
[JURIST] A federal appeals court on Friday rejected [opinion, PDF] a lawsuit brought against private contractors by Iraqi plaintiffs alleging torture at the Abu Ghraib prison [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
1 Jul 2008, 1:36 am
[JURIST] Four former Abu Ghraib [JURIST news archive] detainees filed lawsuits [CCR materials] Monday against two private US military contractors and three of their employees, alleging torture, war crimes and civil conspiracy. [read post]
26 Apr 2006, 7:39 am
[JURIST] A US military spokesman said in Baghdad Tuesday that following a military investigation and reports from human rights groups indicating that private contractors in Iraq are violating human trafficking laws [Chicago Tribune report; Chicago Tribune background reports] in their recruitment of foreign workers - including withholding their passports - the US military command is taking steps [ [read post]
2 May 2008, 3:20 am
[JURIST] The US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence [official website] voted Thursday to approve a ban prohibiting the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] from allowing private contractors to interrogate detainees. [read post]
17 Jul 2008, 7:02 am
[JURIST] The US House of Representatives Wednesday approved by voice vote a ban prohibiting the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] from allowing private contractors to interrogate detainees. [read post]
5 Oct 2017, 1:29 pm by Elizabeth Leavy and Lawrence Block
Companies and private equity funds seeking to expand their portfolios through the acquisition of large, medium, and small government contractors, however, must take particular caution through the due diligence process, because such acquisitions are fraught with potential land mines that can slow down or even disrupt the proposed transaction. [read post]
24 May 2016, 10:12 am by Retirement Blogger
  In addition, CalPERS specifically noted that the individual’s right to pension benefits through CalPERS could not be waived by private agreement, e.g. the prior agreements between the agency and individual that designated him as an independent contractor. [read post]
17 May 2012, 7:00 am by Steve Vladeck
Our friends over at Opinio Juris are hosting a neat online symposium discussion of Professor Laura Dickinson’s book Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Affairs. [read post]
12 Jun 2012, 9:23 am by P.J. Blount
He referenced how the Intergovernmental Agreement for the ISS sets up a regime that private contractors must work within including provisions on cross waivers. [read post]
17 Nov 2016, 6:30 am by Florian Egloff
Distinguishing between a contractor working for a corporate partner for evidence-gathering and one working for the U.S. government will be hard. [read post]
29 May 2019, 2:06 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Federal contractors and subcontractors must update the National Labor Relations Act rights notice that Executive Order 13496, “Notification of Employee Rights Under Federal Labor Law. [read post]