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I would like some advice on my rights as a contractor. I have been doing contract work based on a verbal contract for the last year for a small company. At the present time, we are completing a project. They have paid me for overtime according to my rate, but have not provided any vacation time. The CEO says they have given me vacation on the basis that one week I was not able to work due to connectivity issues (everyone else was gone) - nonethess I was asked to work, ready to work each day either remotely or on...

I would like some advice on my rights as a contractor. I have been doing contract work based on a verbal contract for the last year for a small company. At the present time, we are completing a project. They have paid me for overtime according to my rate, but have not provided any vacation time. The CEO says they have given me vacation on the basis that one week I was not able to work due to connectivity issues (everyone else was gone) - nonethess I was asked to work, ready to work each day either remotely or on...

It's highly unusual to see Iran and the U.S. Navy being praised in the same sentence, but both are undertaking reforms by first focusing on core functions. Iran looks to the free-market Following the Islamic revolution of 1979, Article 44 was added to that country's constitution; it reads in part: "The economy of the Islamic Republic of Iran is to consist of three sectors: state, cooperative, and private, and is to be based on systematic and sound planning. The state sector is to include all large-scale and mother industries, foreign trade, major minerals, banking, insurance, power generation, dams, and large-scale...

Forest Plan Involves Timber Co. Contracts Sat Mar 8, 8:53 AM ET By MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is confident it has found a novel, inexpensive way to clear overgrown forests and prevent catastrophic wildfires. Critics say it's a blatant giveaway to timber companies. The plan, approved last month as part of a giant spending bill, allows logging companies to cut large, commercially valuable trees in national forests in exchange for clearing smaller, more fire-prone trees and brush. Known as "stewardship contracting," the approach allows the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (news...

Federal Times May 20, 2002 Pg. 1 DoD Buying Rule ‘Will Cripple’ Contracting Many Defense Department contracting officers are warning that a proposed procurement rule will bog down the depart-ment’s $60 billion-a-year-plus procurement operation. "I believe the [proposed rule] will cripple the contracting process in our organization," wrote Leticia Walton, a contract-ing official at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, in comments posted on a DoD Web site. "Requiring our organization to primarily compete most of our orders will hamper us from meeting our milestones of obligation." The proposed rule would require Defense Department procurement officials to take extra steps when...