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(For additional guidance on the application of multiple prevailing wage rates, see All Agency Memoranda 131 and 236.) If the prevailing wage rate for a specific type of worker in a specific location ...

A new paper looks at "prevailing wage law," which requires a minimum rate for workers on government contracts. The researchers found this practice boosts pay and benefits for workers.

If there is no published prevailing wage determination for a particular geographic area and type of construction, the taxpayer must proactively request a wage rate or wage determination by ...

Forcing federally funded public works projects to pay the so-called prevailing wage is a classic case of robbing Peter to pay Paul. The intention behind the Davis-Bacon Wage Act, which ...

The bond financing program would no longer fall under a 100% prevailing wage policy, allowing smaller organizations to borrow money in the capital market at investment-grade rates. “If a developer ...

The prevailing wage depends on the job type, but generally is defined as union wage scale. Renee Holloman, a consultant from Bridges Group International, a North Carolina consulting firm hired to ...

A 1984 law outlaws the use of a prevailing wage, but Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes opined in June 2023 that a 2006 law allowing cities to establish a minimum wage takes priority. She said a ...

Mayes, in her opinion, said the minimum wage law takes priority and that prevailing wage is a type of minimum wage, thus protected. The minimum wage law triumphs, she said, because it is newer and ...

The same week that Minnesota’s third largest city voted to remove prevailing wage ... would mean laborers working on developments that have an estimated cost over $175,000 and use some type ...

With two new members, the City Council repealed a prevailing wage rule rapidly passed by predecessors for construction workers of city projects. Click here for important updates to our privacy policy.

Senate Bill 571 would for the first time fold certain privately funded work into the prevailing law law. The House will consider the legislation next.