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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 Nebraska.
The Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division uses highly inaccurate methods to estimate prevailing wages for the Davis-Bacon Act. Davis-Bacon rates in Virginia (except for the Washington, D.C., Metro area) are 26 percent below market wages.
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.
Victims. >> well, when you reduce compensation by 77%, it's definitely going to increase cost, increase the cost of reconstruction, it's going to reduce the amount of projects that can be corrected due to hurricane sandy and it's going to be higher casts for the new jersey taxpayers, it's a lose-lose all around. >> how is your business affected? >> we're an open shop company and we do a lot of projects for the public sector and federal government sector and precluded from participating and bidding in this work. so, certainly, we're not in favor of project labor agreements of any sorts. we beli...