Sentences with phrase «prevailing wage requirement»

The federal investigation centers on prevailing wage requirements for federal contracts, among other issues.

The accord is a far cry from the initial demands of union groups, who sought prevailing wage requirements for construction workers on most projects that qualified for the tax break.

But Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that any future deal leading to a permanent renewal of the abatement must include some form of prevailing wage requirement for construction workers on projects benefitting from 421a — namely buildings with more than 15 units.

The Albany arrangement only extends the abatement for six months, with the intention of allowing real estate interests and building trades unions to reach an agreement on prevailing wage requirements.

By adding the amendments that address prevailing wage requirements and force organizations to hire from a set pool of contractors, the Democrats in the Legislature put the agenda of special - interest groups in front of what is best for Erie County.

[47] He has also expressed distaste for public service labor unions, which he has compared to pigs, [53] and is an outspoken critic of state laws such as the Wicks Law, which sets prevailing wage requirements, [49] and the Taylor Law, which gives unions significant negotiating advantages in exchange for prohibiting them from striking.

One of the Southland's top manufacturing success stories is leading an effort to exempt the south suburbs from new Cook County prevailing wage requirements that municipal leaders say would cripple private investment.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned of an explosive populist reaction to a proposal to extend a new tax break to condominiums in exchange for prevailing wage requirements for construction workers — one of the suggested solutions to reinstate the lapsed 421a tax credit.

S.8379 - A / A.10257 - D: Broadens scope of prevailing wage requirements for service employees and establishes criminal penalties for violations.

The 421 - a exemption would be renewed, only if the construction trades and REBNY could agree on a prevailing wage requirement within six months.

On the developer side, REBNY president John Banks III said in a statement that the group «remain [s] committed to working with stakeholders» to establish an affordable housing program but that a prevailing wage requirement was untenable.

Democrats in the Assembly want a prevailing wage requirement for all new developments receiving the subsidy from taxpayers.

And there's a real fear, I think a real important concern about the reduction in production that would happen if the 421 - a program ended up having a prevailing wage requirement,» said Rafael Cestero of the Community Preservation Corporation.

But that was also dismissed by Democrats, who say it needs to include a prevailing wage requirement.

Some say rejecting the prevailing wage requirement is inconsistent for the mayor, who travels the country talking about income inequality.

«That prevailing wage requirement simply just increases the cost overall of doing it.

With just a few more weeks to go in the legislative session, the New York Bar City Association is calling on state lawmakers to re-enact the revised 421a deal Albany hammered out last year, but this time without the prevailing wage requirement that ultimately killed the program.

The prevailing wage requirements are written in the state's constitution.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has drawn the ire of the national AFL - CIO for his refusal to support a prevailing wage requirement for construction workers in a controversial tax abatement program that's up for renewal.

The proposed changes to the prevailing wage requirement in 421 - a came out of discussions between the union and the de Blasio administration, according to a city official.

There, he urged the normally friendly crowd to embrace his plan to extend 421 - a, which includes more affordable housing but no prevailing wage requirement for new projects.

UP4NYC, a coalition of unions, has been pushing for the prevailing wage requirement with extensive advertising campaigns.

On top of that, they say, a prevailing wage requirement for construction could increase costs on some projects by 30 percent.

They need to stay in the City of New York,» Wright said during a 90 - minute rally of hundreds of construction workers blasting the mayor for leaving out the prevailing wage requirement.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has been engaged in a debate with lawmakers over whether a new 421a program should include a prevailing wage requirement for construction workers.

The 421a abatement — the sine qua non of Mr. de Blasio's proposal to construct 60,000 new below - market apartments — expired in January after an ill - fated decision by Mr. Cuomo and the legislative leaders to have the real estate industry and unions negotiateinclude new prevailing wage requirements for construction workers.

Prevailing wage requirements, meanwhile, lay out a minimum wage for workers on state - commissioned construction projects.

But while his plan includes a prevailing wage requirement for service workers employed in the 421a buildings, it leaves out this requirement for construction workers.

Construction labor unions oppose de Blasio's proposal because it only includes a prevailing wage requirement for service workers, while service worker unions support the mayor's plan.

The groups needed to include some form of a prevailing wage requirement for construction workers for buildings with 15 or more units that are participating in the program.

The Mason Tenders also made a rare appearance as one of the state's top - spending lobby clients last year; as a group it supported spent nearly $ 1.3 million in the first six months in support of a prevailing wage requirement in an attempt to renew 421 - a tax credits.

Cuomo, who has traded barbs with de Blasio over his proposal, reiterated that he thinks any changes to 421 - a should include new protections for construction workers and, possibly, a prevailing wage requirement.

On Thursday, the state AFL - CIO's executive council approved a resolution calling for a prevailing wage requirement on 421 - a projects.

LaBarbera said he'd put a proposal in front of REBNY that would limit the prevailing wage requirement to certain neighborhoods in Manhattan and on the Brooklyn and Queens waterfronts — «where the values support the wages.»

The holdout senators this week released a list of budget demands that included expanding access to private voucher schools outside Milwaukee and Racine, operational changes to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, requiring counties or municipalities that enact wheel taxes to do so by voter referendum and moving up the effective date of the budget's repeal of the state's prevailing wage requirement.

Sheppard Mullin has decades of experience assisting clients in complying with prevailing wage requirements on public works construction projects.