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The Status of Independent Contractor is Changing
By Trent Cotney, Cotney Attorneys and Consultants. New changes to worker classification are making it a challenge to classify subcontractors and 1099 labor. On December 27, 2021, in The Atlanta Opera, Inc. 371 NLRB No. 45 (2021), the National Labor Relations Board provided public notice requesting briefs and analysis ...
Don’t Miss These Sessions at IRE 2022!
By Evelyn Witterholt, RCS Reporter. Join members of the roofing industry, including our very own RCS president, for an exciting couple of days full of speaking sessions! This year's International Roofing Expo (IRE) is set to be an exciting couple of days for everyone in the roofing industry that is ...
NRCA Encourages Roofing Professionals to Register for Virtual Legal Conference
The National Roofing Contractors Association is inviting roofing industry professionals to register for its newest virtual conference, LEGALCon 2022, which will be held March 10. During the conference, NRCA will provide four one-hour sessions about the latest developments in contract law, employment law and roofing technology from legal and technical ...
What Roofing Contractors Need to Know About Delay Claims
By Cotney Attorneys & Consultants. Everything you need to know about delay claims, from what they are to how to resolve them. While not all delays in construction projects will lead to it not finishing on time, failing to handle it well can lead to even more delays. These can ...
HR Strategies at Your Fingertips
By Cotney Attorneys & Consultants. Your company’s Human Resources department is critical to your success. HR professionals are charged with communicating company policies, posting new positions, guiding the hiring process, monitoring company morale and a host of other “duties as assigned.” Sometimes, it can be difficult for ...
Carbon Monoxide Safety
By Cotney Attorneys & Consultants. Contractors must be cognizant of the carbon monoxide risks that can come with a residential reroofing project The kind of story no roofer wants to hear is like the one about the woman in Oklahoma whose house filled with toxic carbon monoxide following roof ...
Get a Taste of Optelos’ Visual Inspection Platform
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. This RT3 webinar shows you how Imagine Technologies drone-captured data makes roof assessments and take offs easier. Learn the story behind Imagine Technologies Group and their drone-based inspection technology in Roofing Technology Think Tank’s (RT3) new Tech Talk video. Born out of ...
‘Tis the Season of Giving in the Roofing Community
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. Learn how the roofing community gives back through foundations and education in this heartwarming Coffee Conversations. Season 3, Episode 6 of Coffee Conversations, sponsored by ABC Supply, hits home with an episode on giving back through roofing foundations. Join Heidi J. Ellsworth and ...
Four Entry Points for Hazardous Chemicals
By Cotney Attorneys & Consultants. Construction site employees need to understand the chemicals they may encounter at the worksite and the amount of exposure they might encounter. There are chemicals present at virtually every worksite. Many of those chemicals are hazardous to humans, depending on the exposure. Know the potential ...
Check Out What WSRCA Has Been Doing This Year
By Evelyn Witterholt, RCS Reporter. Webinars, legal news, technical bulletins and more are all highlighted in Part 1 of WSRCA’s 2021 Year in Review. The past year has been challenging for everyone involved in the roofing industry. The impacts of labor and material shortages were further compounded by the COVID-19 ...
