advocate serve as the eyes and the ears of the small business and represent their voice in washington. in our washington headquarters we have a team of attorneys. their job is to monitor and work on regulations. and work with agency regulators on regulatory concerns. we also have a team of researchers. they regularly produce data and research and report to inform the public of the contribution and the status of small business. one of the reports is a yearly report to the president. this is the 2010 report on the small business economy. we also produce an annual state small business profile. i am sure that many reviewed this. this has all of the 50 states. in addition to that we have a lot more other reports. we are the independent voice for the small business within the federal government. our responsibility is to help insure environment that enables the small business to sustain and grow their business. as you may know the smallest businesses which are 20 employees or less,
we also have a team of researchers. they regularly produce data and research and report to inform the public of the contribution and the status of small business. one of the reports is a yearly report to the president. this is the 2010 report on the small business economy. we also produce an annual state small business profile. i am sure that many reviewed this. this has all of the 50 states. in addition to that we have a lot more other reports. we are the independent voice for the small business within the federal government. our responsibility is to help insure environment that enables the small business to sustain and grow their business. as you may know the smallest businesses which are 20 employees or less, they pay about an average of $10,585 per year just to meet the federal regulation requirements. this is 36% higher than the larger counterparts. one example small manufacturors have to spend about $22,000 a year to meet e.p.a. regulatory requirements. this compares to
a.d.a., right now a.d.a. is confined to california. maybe we can put together a roundtable in california. and i know that other business groups have asked for that. in order to bring together the roundtable all we need is some issues to take a look at and that we would bring together stakeholders. unfortunately right now we are holding it in washington because our experts, our researchers, economists and attorneys are all at headquarters. usually after the roundtable we, as regional advocates will report back to our stakeholder asks say that we have these issues. do you have other perspectives that we can share with our team. and that is how we engage everybody. we don t want certain groups to be left out from this process because it is very important that we have diverse experiences and diverse perspectives. so that when the regulations or the rules are finally made then it truly represents the perspectives of the small business. thank you. thank you. hi. i just noticed
we have a team of attorneys. their job is to monitor and work on regulations. and work with agency regulators on regulatory concerns. we also have a team of researchers. they regularly produce data and research and report to inform the public of the contribution and the status of small business. one of the reports is a yearly report to the president. this is the 2010 report on the small business economy. we also produce an annual state small business profile. i am sure that many reviewed this. this has all of the 50 states. in addition to that we have a lot more other reports. we are the independent voice for the small business within the federal government. our responsibility is to help insure environment that enables the small business to sustain and grow their business. as you may know the smallest businesses which are 20 employees or less, they pay about an average of $10,585 per year just to meet the federal regulation requirements. this is 36% higher than the larger cou
employee? once the city is aware there is a discrepancy that could be because an employee complained or it could be because we noticed something unusual in the payments or the reports that come in. then the staff does an investigation and the investigation is of the contractor to determine whether the contractor has paid the appropriate wages to the employees based on the work they performed. when there is a case that goes the full way, the parties to that case are the contractor and the city or the contractor and the employee? city. so, would the standard contract a contractor would have with the city, most contracts today have clauses in there that say both parties agree that if there is a dispute or whatever that they will go to a hearing settlement or case. if that fails to resolve it they will go to binding arbitration before they say i will see you in court. prevailing wage violations the procedure is outlined in chapter 6 of the administrative code. that is a