Sentences with phrase «prevailing wage law»

Prevailing wage laws require city contractors to pay their employees the wage and benefit rate set annually by the Comptroller on city public works projects, such as renovating public schools, or cleaning city office buildings.

A fiscal watchdog group is questioning the state's century - old prevailing wage law for construction workers, saying it unnecessarily costs taxpayers billions of dollars a year in added expenses for big road, bridge and other projects.

The IDC warned the convention could do «tremendous damage» from repealing constitutionally protected pensions for public workers and repealing prevailing wage laws that require even nonunion contractors with the state to pay union wages and benefits.

He also voted for the Amtrak reauthorization bill and against amendments to federal prevailing wage laws.

The Empire Center, a fiscally conservative budget watchdog group, looked at the state's constitutionally protected prevailing wage law.

«Prevailing wage laws ensure that contractors compete based on skill, productivity and experience, removing the incentive to exploit workers in order to minimize costs,» said state Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon.

We have litigated numerous matters before the Secretary of Labor, Labor Standards Administration, California and New York Labor Commissioners and state and federal courts involving California and New York State Prevailing Wage Laws, the Davis - Bacon Act, the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act, the Fitzgerald Act and related laws and regulations.

NEW YORK CITY — A state Supreme Court judge rejected the city's prevailing wage law for specific city - supported projects on Monday, signaling a win for the mayor.

Currently, any company that receives a state contract is subject the prevailing wage law.

The group also opposes repealing the prevailing wage law.

The prevailing wage law was begun in the 1920s, and McMahon admits it was well - intentioned, designed to curb worker abuses that were prevalent at the time.

The prevailing wage law requires that contractors contribute a portion of a worker's wages to health care and retirement benefits, which can represent up to half of an average $ 96 - an - hour pay scale in New York City.

In fact, even the coalition of Republicans and independent Democrats who run the state Senate have proposed expanding the prevailing wage law to all projects that use some portion of public funds.

«Despite the unnecessary cost increases associated with the prevailing wage law, special interests in Albany are pushing for prevailing wage to be expanded to projects that are not entirely paid for with public funds.

Even as state Republicans continue to discuss plans to overhaul the state's prevailing wage laws, at least one GOP senator has been shopping around an alternative that would exempt all local governments from the compensation requirements.

After saying for weeks that he doubts his fellow Republicans would support full elimination of the state's prevailing wage laws, the top lawmaker in the state Assembly plans to allow a vote on at least a modified version of repeal.

The others are a financing deal for a new $ 500 million Milwaukee Bucks stadium and how dramatically to change a prevailing wage law setting minimum salaries for construction workers on certain public projects.

Republicans are also discussing what changes to make to Wisconsin's prevailing wage law, which sets a minimum salary for construction workers on some public jobs.

The top Republican in the state Assembly said Wednesday that he fully expects his fellow party members to approve a budget provision that would exempt local governments from the state's prevailing wage laws.

The carpenters» union has about 700 members who build and fix things for various city agencies, and they are among about 10,000 members of skilled trade union workers who are governed by the prevailing wage law.

A day after Assembly Republicans announced proposed changes to the state's prevailing wage laws, their fellow party members were planning to meet behind closed doors to discuss possibly exempting local governments from the minimum - compensation requirements.