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SBCA Legal Counsel Kent Pagel discusses the potential impacts of Coronavirus on the structural building components industry.
In his fourth presentation focused on employer guidance regarding the COVID-19 Coronavirus, Kent Pagel, SBCA legal counsel and president of Pagel, Davis and Hill, gives a brief follow up on some of the topics he has covered in his past webinars.
SBCA’s legal counsel, Kent Pagel, will start his series of 2020 webinars discussing legal topics first and foremost on the minds of component manufacturers.
The legal office of Pagel, Davis & Hill defines reasonable suspicion testing, and what procedural steps should be taken when detecting signs of impairment.
SBCA’s legal counsel, Kent Pagel, will start his series of 2020 webinars discussing legal topics first and foremost on the minds of component manufacturers.
In this webinar, SBCA Legal Counsel Kent Pagel will provide even more guidance to employers on how to navigate workforce/HR and business operation issues raised by the COVID-19 Coronavirus outbreak.
To assist the component manufacturing industry, SBCA Legal Counsel Kent Pagel has created a Contagious Disease Control Policy and Procedures template in Microsoft Word that can be used as a foundation for companies wishing to have a documented policy.
In this webinar, SBCA Legal Counsel Kent Pagel will provide further guidance to employers on how to navigate workforce/HR and business operation issues raised by the COVID-19 Coronavirus outbreak.
Kent Pagel, SBCA’s national legal counsel, discusses the benefits of component manufacturers (CMs) being suppliers as opposed to subcontractors, while outlining how much of a CM’s activities are largely subcontracting from a risk perspective.
To assist the component manufacturing industry, SBCA Legal Counsel Kent Pagel has created a Contagious Disease Control Policy and Procedures template in Microsoft Word that can be used as a foundation for companies wishing to have a documented policy.
SBCA’s Legal Counsel Kent Pagel has created three documents to help employers comply with the new FFCRA paid leave requirements, all of which are free to SBCA members!
SBCA Legal Counsel Kent Pagel has drafted template contractual language that serves as a model for CMs to include in their proposals/bids and customer contracts, as a means to set out under what circumstances CMs as suppliers of building materials, can be excused for performance when unforeseen circumstances, beyond their control, prevent, delay or hinder that performance.
Indemnities and insurance provisions can provide your customer with recourse against your company that is otherwise not normally recoverable. In this webinar, Kent Pagel discusses what your customers intend with the indemnity and insurance provisions they include in their form customer contracts. He also covers the key themes to consider when negotiating an indemnity provision.
A component manufacturer submits its bid or proposal to a customer. Rather than signing the bid, the customer issues its purchase order. In response the manufacturer issues a sales acknowledgement. Each of the forms contains terms and conditions of sale on the back. Some or all of the forms either get signed or none of them are signed. If a dispute later arises, how does it get resolved? Kent Pagel discusses best practices and answers the questions CMs have regarding this all too common battle of the forms.
SBCA is hosting a weekly podcast conversation with members of its Executive Committee, discussing how their companies are impacted by the COVID-19 epidemic and what they are doing to overcome various challenges presented by the virus.
Each podcast will focus more on what actual component manufacturers are doing in their businesses and less on the various legal questions (for employment law focused content, please review Kent Pagel’s recent webinar series).
As individuals, businesses, and governments continue to take actions to mitigate or contain the worldwide impact of COVID-19, component manufacturers (CMs) ought to consider including language in their proposals/bids and customer contract forms giving them a potential out to avoid breach of contract liability if and when they are unable to make deliveries through no fault of their own, such as in the case of COVID-19 rendering their plant inoperable.
Relationships with other component manufacturers (CMs), and suppliers help our company to be proactive instead of reactive.
Effective April 1, 2020, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) requires private employers with less than 500 employees to provide Emergency Paid Sick Leave and Paid Expanded FMLA to employees under certain conditions.
The true test of someone’s character, or something’s value, is not when times are going well but when there is a crisis.