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The Benefits of Joint and Several Liability Laws for Contractors, Communities, and States 

Thursday, November 12, 2026, 1 – 1:45 pm Eastern Time (New York Time)
Online via Zoom - link shared at registration

Sponsored by the LERA Construction Council 

This webinar will examine the growing movement to hold developers and general contractors accountable for wage theft committed by subcontractors and labor brokers further down the subcontract chain. Attendees will learn how joint and several liability (JSL) laws work, why thirteen states and DC have adopted them since 2015, and how they have been put into action to recover wages for workers.  It will also address industry claims that JSL laws hurt competition, contractor diversity, and housing development, drawing on twenty-five years of construction data that shows none of these effects.

Moderator
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Tim Watkins, Co-Chair Construction Council, Director, Fair Contracting Foundation of Minnesota

 
Speaker
Jack Kearns

Jack Kearns, MPP; Researcher for Western States Regional Council of Carpenters Campaign for a Residential Construction Minimum Wage in Los Angeles

Jack is a policy researcher with the Western States Regional Council of Carpenters, working primarily on the campaign to pass a residential construction minimum wage in the City of Los Angeles. He is a former Policy Advocate with the UCLA Labor Center, researching the rise in child labor in the United States. While earning his Master in Public Policy degree at UCLA, he researched how organized labor can fight the housing crisis in LA, and was a department steward for the graduate student workers union. 


Questions about this webinar? Contact Tim Watkins, [email protected], 815-997-3039
Questions about registration? Contact the LERA office at [email protected].
 

Pricing

There is no charge, but we do ask that you register. We request that registered participants not share, forward, or post the webinar links and passwords to ensure the security of this webinar. The Zoom link for the webinar will be sent to registered persons upon registration and also on the morning of the webinar.

Recordings will be made available to LERA members.

Registration

At the registration site, you will be asked to input your name, email, affiliation (university/organization/company). You will then receive a confirmation email that will include a unique link and additional information to join the meeting.
Please do not distribute the link and information you will receive to attend the webinar to anyone, or post it in a public place. This discourages unknown individuals from joining the meeting with an intention to be disruptive.

Past webinars in this series

LERA members can access recordings from past webinars in this series here.