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(Archived document, may contain errors) 315 Dece mber 15, 1983 TRIMMING THE HUGE COST .OF DAWS-BACON c INTRODUCTION The Davis-Bacon Act, enacted in 1931, requires contractors to pay the llprevailingll wage on federally funded construction projects. The purpose of the Act was to protect local construc ti on labor from the competition of itinerant contractors and their lower paid, often minority, employees.

The Davis-Bacon Act of 1931 requires contractors on all federal construction projects to pay their workers the prevailing wage in their locality. The law is intended to ensure that the government does not drive down construction workers' wages, but flaws in the U.S. Department of Labor's wage determination process cause the law to have the opposite effect in South Dakota.

The DE OFCCP Week in Review (WIR) is a simple, fast and direct summary of relevant happenings in the OFCCP regulatory environment, authored by experts John C. Fox, Candee Chambers and...

Seyfarth Synopsis: On January 25, 2022, IDOL sent out additional communications regarding the upcoming Illinois Equal Pay Registration Certificate obligations. Some 625 employers...

>> well, there is laws that mandate that the government pay federal contractors at least a certain hourly wage for each profession in each gee graphic call region. and it spawned this whole complicated system where every year bureaucrats make 132,000 wage determinations. saying what contractors must pay. and its typically between 2 or even as much as 2.5 times as much as the private sector. >> now in reading your article, i learned, for instance, this much most carpet layers in pee peoria illino...