> Let me give you an example - let's say you are building a road, which happens to travel through multiple jurisdictions. Now in one jurisdiction, there may be

> Let me give you an example - let's say you are building a road, which happens to travel through multiple jurisdictions. Now in one jurisdiction, there may be a rule that requires one set of employee benefits and different benefits in other jurisdictions. > Now, which one should the contractor follow? What do you mean by "benefits"? Generally what are usually considered benefits in employment are things like health insurance, life insurance, paid time off, retirement plans, life insurance, and similar. What jurisdiction's law controls those would generally be the jurisdiction(s) that the employer legally resides in. A city regulation with requirements or restrictions on say employee health insurance plans would only apply to businesses that reside in that city. The city regulations that an employer from another location doing a contracting job in the city would have to worry about would be regulations that affect how the actual job must be done. For example here in Washington different counties have different regulations on how deep underground water lines must be, because different counties have different frost lines and so a depth that would work fine in one country would might be a pending burst pipe in another.