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"Labor advisor," as used in this part, means the departmental or agency headquarters labor advisor.
DFARS 222.001 Application of Labor Laws to Government Acquisitions

"Labor cost at standard" means a preestablished measure of the labor element of cost, computed by multiplying labor-rate standard by labor-time standard.
FAR 31 Contract Cost Principles and Procedures

"Labor-hour contract" is a variation of the time-and-materials contract, differing only in that materials are not supplied by the contractor. See 16.601(b) and 16.601(c) for application and limitations, respectively.
FAR 16.602 Labor-hour contracts

"Labor index" means the average straight time hourly earnings of the Contractor's employees in the ____________ shop of the Contractor's ________________ plant (see Note 4) for any particular month.
DFARS 252.216-7001 Economic Price Adjustment--Nonstandard Steel Items (Jul 1997) as prescribed in DFARS 216.203-4-70(b).

"Labor market" means a place where individuals exchange their labor for compensation. Labor markets are identified and defined by a combination of the following factors--
(1) Geography,
(2) Education and/or technical background required,
(3) Experience required by the job,
(4) Licensing or certification requirements,
(5) Occupational membership, and
(6) Industry.
FAR 31 Contract Cost Principles and Procedures

"Labor organization" means any organization of any kind in which employees participate and which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours, or other terms or conditions of employment.
Proposed Rule - Department of Labor, Office of Labor-Management Standards - 29 CFR Part 470 - Obligations of Federal Contractors and Subcontractors; Notice of Employee Rights Concerning Payment of Union Dues or Fees, Federal Register: October 1, 2001

"Labor-rate standard" means a preestablished measure, expressed in monetary terms, of the price of labor.
FAR 31 Contract Cost Principles and Procedures

"Labor surplus area" means a geographical area identified by the Department of Labor in accordance with 20 CFR part 654, subpart A, as an area of concentrated unemployment or underemployment or an area of labor surplus.
FAR Part 2 - Definitions of Words and Terms

"Labor surplus area concern" means a concern that together with its first-tier subcontractors will perform substantially in labor surplus areas. Performance is substantially in labor surplus areas if the costs incurred under the contract on account of manufacturing, production, or performance of appropriate services in labor surplus areas exceed 50 percent of the contract price.
FAR Part 2 - Definitions of Words and Terms

"Labor-time standard" means a preestablished measure, expressed in temporal terms, of the quantity of labor.
FAR 31 Contract Cost Principles and Procedures

"Laborers or mechanics" includes--
(1) Those workers, utilized by a contractor or subcontractor at any tier, whose duties are manual or physical in nature (including those workers who use tools or who are performing the work of a trade), as distinguished from mental or managerial;
(2) Apprentices, trainees, helpers, and, in the case of contracts subject to the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act, watchmen and guards. The terms "apprentice" and "trainee" are defined as follows:
(i) "Apprentice" means--
(A) a person employed and individually registered in a bona fide apprenticeship program registered with the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training, or with a State Apprenticeship Agency recognized by the Bureau; or
(B) a person in the first 90 days of probationary employment as an apprentice in such an apprenticeship program, who is not individually registered in the program, but who has been certified by the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training or a State Apprenticeship Agency (where appropriate) to be eligible for probationary employment as an apprentice.
(ii) "Trainee" means a person registered and receiving on-the-job training in a construction occupation under a program which has been approved in advance by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, as meeting its standards for on-the-job training programs and which has been so certified by that Administration.
(3) Working foremen who devote more than 20 percent of their time during a workweek performing duties of a laborer or mechanic, and who do not meet the criteria of 29 CFR part 541, for the time so spent; and
(4) Every person performing the duties of a laborer or mechanic, regardless of any contractual relationship alleged to exist between the contractor and those individuals.
The terms exclude workers whose duties are primarily executive, supervisory (except as provided in paragraph (3) of this definition), administrative, or clerical, rather than manual. Persons employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity as defined in 29 CFR part 541 are not deemed to be laborers or mechanics.
FAR 22.401 Labor Standards for Contracts Involving Construction

"Landing areas" means-
(i) The primary surfaces, comprising the surface of the runway, runway shoulders, and lateral safety zones. The length of each primary surface is the same as the runway length. The width of each primary surface is 2,000 feet (1,000 feet on each side of the runway centerline); [At some airfields, the width of the primary surface is 1,500 feet (750 feet on each side of the runway centerline). In such instances, substitute the proper width in the clause.]
(ii) The "clear zone" beyond the ends of each runway, i.e., the extension of the primary surface for a distance of 1,000 feet beyond each end of each runway;
(iii) All taxiways, plus the lateral clearance zones along each side for the length of the taxiways (the outer edge of each lateral clearance zone is laterally 250 feet from the far or opposite edge of the taxiway, e.g., a 75-foot-wide taxiway would have a combined width of taxiway and lateral clearance zones of 425 feet); and
(iv) All aircraft parking aprons, plus the area 125 feet in width extending beyond each edge all around the aprons.
DFARS 252.236-7005 Airfield Safety Precautions (Dec 1991) as prescribed in DFARS 236.570(b)(3)

"Last-Offer Arbitration." See "Baseball."

"Latent defect" means a defect that exists at the time of acceptance but cannot be discovered by a reasonable inspection.
FAR Part 2 - Definitions of Words and Terms

"Leader company contracting" is an extraordinary acquisition technique that is limited to special circumstances and utilized only when its use is in accordance with agency procedures. A developer or sole producer of a product or system is designated under this acquisition technique to be the leader company, and to furnish assistance and know-how under an approved contract to one or more designated follower companies, so they can become a source of supply. The objectives of this technique are one or more of the following:
(a) Reduce delivery time.
(b) Achieve geographic dispersion of suppliers.
(c) Maximize the use of scarce tooling or special equipment.
(d) Achieve economies in production.
(e) Ensure uniformity and reliability in equipment, compatibility or standardization of components, and interchangeability of parts.
(f) Eliminate problems in the use of proprietary data that cannot be resolved by more satisfactory solutions.
(g) Facilitate the transition from development to production and to subsequent competitive acquisition of end items or major components.
FAR 17.4 Leader Company Contracting

"Leasing" means the acquisition of motor vehicles, other than by purchase from private or commercial sources, and includes the synonyms "hire" and "rent."
FAR 8.11 Leasing of Motor Vehicles

"Legal proceedings" means any civil judicial proceeding to which the Government is a party or any criminal proceeding. The term includes appeals from such proceedings.
FAR 9.4 Debarment, Suspension, and Ineligibility

"Letter contract" is a written preliminary contractual instrument that authorizes the contractor to begin immediately manufacturing supplies or performing services.
FAR 16.603 Letter contracts

"Life-cycle cost" means the total cost to the Government of acquiring, operating, supporting, and (if applicable) disposing of the items being acquired.
FAR 7.1 Acquisition Plans

"Life cycle cost," as used in this clause, is the sum of all costs over the useful life of a building, system or product. It includes the cost of design, construction, acquisition, operation, maintenance, and salvage (resale) value, if any.
FAR 52.248-2 Value Engineering--Architect-Engineer (Mar 1990) as prescribed in FAR 48.201(f)

"Limited rights" means the rights to use, modify, reproduce, release, perform, display, or disclose technical data, in whole or in part, within the Government. The Government may not, without the written permission of the party asserting limited rights, release or disclose the technical data outside the Government, use the technical data for manufacture, or authorize the technical data to be used by another party, except that the Government may reproduce, release or disclose such data or authorize the use or reproduction of the data by persons outside the Government if reproduction, release, disclosure, or use is-
(i) Necessary for emergency repair and overhaul; or
(ii) A release or disclosure of technical data (other than detailed manufacturing or process data) to, or use of such data by, a foreign government that is in the interest of the Government and is required for evaluational or informational purposes;
(iii) Subject to a prohibition on the further reproduction, release, disclosure, or use of the technical data; and
(iv) The contractor or subcontractor asserting the restriction is notified of such reproduction, release, disclosure, or use.
DFARS 252.227-7013 Rights in Technical Data--Noncommercial Items (Nov 1995) as prescribed in DFARS 227.7103-6(a);
DFARS 252.227-7018 Rights in Noncommercial Technical Data and Computer Software--Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (Jun 1995) as prescribed in DFARS 227.7104(a);
DFARS 252.227-7025 Limitations on the Use or Disclosure of Government-Furnished Information Marked with Restrictive Legends (Jun 1995) as prescribed in DFARS 227.7103-6(c), 227.7104(f)(1), or 227.7203-6(d); and
DFARS 252.227-7025 Limitations on the Use or Disclosure of Government-Furnished Information Marked with Restrictive Legends (Jun 1995) as prescribed in DFARS 227.7103-6(c), 227.7104(f)(1), or 227.7203-6(d)

"Limited rights" means the rights of the Government in limited rights data, as set forth in a Limited Rights Notice if included in a data rights clause of the contract.
FAR 27.4 Rights in Data and Copyrights

"Limited rights data" means data, other than computer software, that embody trade secrets or are commercial or financial and confidential or privileged, to the extent that such data pertain to items, components, or processes developed at private expense, including minor modifications thereof. (Agencies may, however, adopt the following alternate definition: "Limited rights data" means data developed at private expense that embody trade secrets or are commercial or financial and confidential or privileged (see 27.404(c)).
FAR 27.4 Rights in Data and Copyrights

"Line item" means an item of supply or service, specified in an invitation for bids, for which the bidder must bid a separate price.
FAR 3.3 Reports of Suspected Antitrust Violations

"Line item," as used in this subpart, means a single line entry on a reporting form that indicates a quantity of property having the same description and condition code from any one contract at any one reporting location.
FAR 45.6 Reporting, Redistribution, and Disposal of Contractor Inventory

"List of Parties Excluded from Federal Procurement and Nonprocurement Programs" means a list compiled, maintained, and distributed by the General Services Administration containing the names and other information about parties debarred, suspended, or voluntarily excluded under the Nonprocurement Common Rule or the Federal Acquisition Regulation, parties who have been proposed for debarment under the Federal Acquisition Regulation, and parties determined to be ineligible.
FAR Part 2 - Definitions of Words and Terms

"List of Products Requiring Contractor Certification as to Forced or Indentured Child Labor" means the list published by the Department of Labor in accordance with E.O. 13126 of June 12, 1999, Prohibition of Acquisition of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor. The list identifies products, by their country of origin, that the Departments of Labor, Treasury, and State have a reasonable basis to believe might have been mined, produced, or manufactured by forced or indentured child labor.
FAR 22.1501 Prohibition of Acquisition of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor

"Loan guarantees" are made by Federal Reserve banks, on behalf of designated guaranteeing agencies, to enable contractors to obtain financing from private sources under contracts for the acquisition of supplies or services for the national defense.
FAR 32.102(c) Non-Commercial Item Purchase Financing

"Local government," as used in this section, means a unit of government in a State and, if chartered, established, or otherwise recognized by a State for the performance of a governmental duty, including a local public authority, a special district, an intrastate district, a council of governments, a sponsor group representative organization, and any other instrumentality of a local government.
FAR 3.8 Limitation on the Payment of Funds to Influence Federal Transactions

"Local taxes," as used in the Federal, State, and local taxes clause of this contract, includes taxes imposed by an outlying area of the United States.
Federal Register: July 27, 2001 Proposed Rules FAR 52.229-5

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